Edgar’s focus is to introduce a life and depth to a medium that is usually more one-dimensional. His textile designs have won numerous awards over the years and Edgar has been teaching his winning techniques to others ever since. Since 2000 Edgar has been working on new processes with textured surface pieces where the cloth collapses on itself during the finishing process.

Edgar A. Furlong started weaving in 1994. He studied with many well-respected teachers and artists, such as Lydia Van Gelder, Holy Brachmann, Katherine Alexander, Liz Williamson, and most recently Jane Dunnewold.

In 2001-2002 Edgar introduced handspun and commercial yarns to this process to produce new and dramatic effects that explores multi-layered cloth and the incorporation of movement in a finished piece. The resulting hand-woven pieces include surface design techniques such as discharges, appliqués, resists, over dyes and the use of metallics and shibori.