Clarissa Naylor

Clarissa Naylor was born in San Diego (California) in 1956.

Daughter of artisans, she has lived since her childhood immersed in a world of creativity.

It is precisely in the workshop of her father, an expert in the manufacture of ceramics, that she develops her manual skills and her creative intuition.

Clarissa learned to knit at her grandmother’s feet. There were many summers that she and her parents stayed with their grandparents for weeks, and every day, Clarissa would sit beside her grandmother, untangling her yarn and learning how to crochet—first, a little hat for her stuffed dog, and then one for her father, and by the age of ten, she was crocheting full-size afghans as Christmas presents for her family.

The older Clarissa got, the more about knitting and crocheting she learned, making it a point to find the most complicated and tedious patterns she could and bringing them to her grandmother during the summer.

Later, she crowned her dream by graduating with honors from high school art.

Clarissa opened a small store in her town. She is selling her handmade works to tourists for 25 years.

Clarissa Naylor’s knowledge of knitting and crocheting is more extensive than most and was built by trial and error—so she knows what really works for someone who is first starting to learn or who wants to progress from the basics to more advanced patterns and techniques.