About the FUTURE CRAFT STUDIO
At the FUTURE CRAFT STUDIO, we create unique products that blend traditional hand craft with modern design. Our products are made with the highest quality of materials and craftmanship. We come together from many disciplines of art, including weaving, quilting, knitting, crochet, sewing, needlepoint, and many more.
The FUTURECRAFT label is a family run business founded by the mother/daughter team of Josephine and Jenna Rivers.
By using nontraditional ways of manufacturing our products, we promote and hire skilled American Craft Designers and Artisans. We call upon all people to join us in a quest for better quality products without the use of foreign manufacturing.
We share stories, explore new ideas, and create cutting edge products.
We pass down traditions and look to provide a sustainable future for craft in the modern world.
Designer Biographies
Jenna Rivers
Fashion Designer / Artist / Surface Designer
3rd Generation Designer
Co-Founder and Designer, Jenna attended the Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC. Her work is focused around the relationships between fine tailoring, traditional crafts and new technologies.
Jenna comes from a family of fashion designers and craftspeople. Jenna works with her mother, Josephine and grandmother, Maria to develop traditional hand loomed fabrics, as well as entire collections of hand knit fine cashmere.
Jenna is proud of her family and the struggles they endured in order to give her many opportunities. Jenna has been featured in numerous fashion publications worldwide, designing cutting edge luxury men’s and women’s apparel.
Josephine Rivers
Handweaver / Textile Designer
2nd Generation Designer
Josephine’s determination was apparent at a very young age. After facing the many obstacles of immigrating, Josephine and her parents moved to the US from Argentina in a search for a better life.
Josephine has always been a true artist and visionary. After graduating high school, Josephine studied Fine Art in Europe. During many years of teaching and guiding countless young students in the field of art, Josephine continues to educate herself in traditional and modern techniques of weaving. A quick learner, and go-getter, the mother of three is determined to design and innovate new weaving techniques to apply to the modern fashion world.
Maria D’Amore
Master Seamstress / Knitter
1st Generation Designer
Maria’s ability to knit and crochet anything imaginable is flawless. Maria taught both her daughter and granddaughter the art of sewing at a very young age.
Maria grew up in Argentina where she was a professor of textile design, knitting, patternmaking, and rugmaking. She was quite the fashionista, wearing the best in her homespun and hand knit Alpaca and Vicuna Sweaters and Shawls, which she sold at her boutique and the local market.