Deb Dumka

Texada Island, British Columbia, Canada

Dumka’s boiled wool felt handbags are produced in her home based studio from yarns she dyes and knits. She takes inspiration for the organic forms of her bags from the stones of the shingle beach outside her front door, and for her colours, from the west coast viewpoint containing ocean, forest, mountain and sky. Deb has worked with fibre since the mid 1980’s and studied textiles at what is now the Anna Templeton Centre in St. John’s.

Dumka is from Texada Island, the largest of British Columbia’s Gulf Islands, and it is located along the Sunshine Coast, between Vancouver Island and the mainland.