Imagine a space where you can create colours and textiles, then weave them into a life-size, ever-evolving work of art.

Guertin said weaving is in her blood. “When I was 9, my grandmother gave me a 4-shaft table loom and told me that my great-grandmother in Sweden was a weaver, and she said I was to be a weaver.

Textile weaving has long been undervalued as a creative art form. But this is changing. A year ago, at London's Barbican ...