Sally Eyring has been working with fiber and cloth since childhood. She was been improving techniques and inventing tools for almost as long. Trained as a mathematics teacher, she later earned her MFA in fine arts for Leslie University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She frequently teaches and lectures on various weaving, sewing and loom construction topics and is a winner of the Complex Weavers Award for Excellence. Eyring does glass casting in addition to weaving and sewing and has been published in weaving and glass periodicals.