Prin van Gulden is a homesteader and craftswoman passionate about illuminating our connections to land and humanity through traditional skills. Humans have spent thousands of years developing ecological relationships, along with skills to create beauty and utility to meet the needs of cultures. She believes the relationships we maintain with the ecological world as we re-learn to utilize the gifts of nature are as essential as the hand’s-on skills we regain.

Prin aspires to help our culture maintain and evolve those relationships, and not to let those skills atrophy, by working in her community, with students, and by always continuing to hone her own skills and keep learning. Her practice is centered on the fiber arts, including basketry and textile weaving, spinning, feltmaking and natural dyeing.

She lives and homesteads in Craftsbury, Vermont with her family (Four people and one big dog in a yurt). There she grows a wide range of plants for crafting, from flax (for linen), cotton, and various dye plants to broom corn and basketry willows.

Prin teaches the Fiber Arts curriculum at Sterling College as well as classes and workshops in Vermont and around New England.

She co-organizes and teaches at the Sloyd Skills Gathering every spring. This community oriented gathering seeks to bring to the fore everyday handcraft and deepen traditional skills practices.

Prin worked for many years as a cheesemaker and herdsperson in the Vermont artisanal cheese industry. She continues to work on her home farm and as the assistant librarian at the Craftsbury Public Library. She has taught a wide range of fiber arts courses and workshops through various organizations around the state and New England.

Prin began as an adjunct faculty member at Sterling College in 2016 and in 2021 joined the faculty. Before that she taught primarily through museums, arts centers, and various other institutions. At Sterling she teaches Basketry, Natural Dyes and Dyeing, Introduction to Weaving, and an introductory course to a broad range of fiber arts.