Christine Alexandria Krause
♥ calexandriakrause@gmail.com ♥ ♥ References available upon request ♥
Background in Textiles \
Art (Wool Sculptures)
Experience \
Education \
Skills
Background in Textiles
My work at the Lacis Museum of Lace & Textiles has given me a decade of experience with vintage fabrics, sewing tools, and cultural textile preservation. I LOVE working in a hands-on environment that requires precision, organization, practical skills, and celebrates the beauty of material culture — but I love building a community centered around that mission even more.
I’m a friendly, reliable, and passionate creative with a love for writing, stitching, and crafting felted wool creatures. My goal is to help others bring their textile dreams to life — elevating our individuality, independence, imagination — and move our society away from a fast fashion, disposable consumption model.
I believe in making a more beautiful future, one handmade piece at a time.
Art (Wool Sculptures)
Are they sculptures, or are they toys? Most, if not all, are safe for infants to play with. I love wool as a medium. It's extremely forgiving and accomodating. It's important to me that every piece is welcoming (soft and warming) to the touch — and have a sense of being huggable, in the hands, if not the arms.
Each one I create and give away heals my inner child.
Bear for Jack
100% wool, maybe 6-8" high. He has a lot of style and attitude because I specifically made this one for my extremely cool cousin, Jack. ♥
Prince Sky Horse
A big, sturdy friend for a small child, standing at approximately 1' high and composed of 90% felted wool. I was most proud of the removable saddle featuring vintage trim & tiny stirrups (not for an infant) — and his gold metallic-embroidered eyelashes. Made him for my newest neighbor. ♥
Didi the Dodo
I found modelling a fledgling of a species brutually driven to extinction by man to be a profoundly healing practice. This specimen was gifted to Margarita Meklina, author of The Little Gaucho Who Loved Don Quixote; she and Didi then traveled the world together. ♥ 99% wool, standing at approximately 1' high, the perfect size for cradling in one's arms, and vintage glass doll eyes.
Deet & Doot; Seabiscuit; Moon Bunny & Dooby
Given away to friends and family. ♥
These are characters from my children's book project, The Origin of Moon Bunny. Moon Bunny & Dooby float on steel wire and painted wooden bases; there are metal and crystalline weights inside Deet & Doot; and you'll find a bugle bead surprise stitched to Dooby.
Rabbit(s) and Fox Masks
Some of my work is scarier. For a while when I was young I was having really bad nightmares. I think that's what led to these doll- and adult-sized soft masks. The doll-sized rabbit and fox masks have natural pearl teeth. The full-sized rabbit mask is really fun to wear. I was born in the year of the Rabbit, and it makes me feel empowered to imagine the Rabbit as a predator. ♥
EXPERIENCE
Administrative Staff/Community Outreach
Lacis Museum of Lace & Textiles, Berkeley, CA
June 2016 – Present
- Designed, wrote, and published a monthly newsletter for 3K+ subscribers
- Managed website content and updates; created graphics and promotional materials
- Developed ad campaigns and maintained a consistent social media presence
- Coordinated educational programs, including textile arts classes, guest lectures, and book signings
- Contributed to the creation and installation of textile exhibits
- Scheduled and conducted public and private tours of museum exhibitions
- Provided front-line customer service and retail support in the museum shop
- Handled pulling, packing, and shipping orders, as well as addressing customer service inquiries and compiling our EOM reports for AbeBooks, Etsy online storefronts
Warehouse Associate
Blue Willow Tea, Berkeley, CA
Dec 2023 – Present
- Pack and ship customer orders using Shopify and ShippingEasy
- Manage stock levels and update inventory records
- Assemble and prepare wholesale orders
- Package fragile inventory (teaware) with care and consistency
- Restock front-of-house displays and assist with customer needs
- Maintain organized and clean packing and shipping areas
Order Fulfillment & Inventory Support
Lacis Wholesale, Berkeley, CA
2018 – 2023
- Pulled a high volume of online orders daily, both wholesale and retail, within an extensive warehouse of textile arts-related tools, books, and specialty materials
- Recieved, distributed, organized and inventoried complex and diverse shipments of aforementioned textile arts supplies (needles, thread, books, etc.)
EDUCATION
University of California, Berkeley
B.A. in English, 2023
- Extracurricular involvement in journalism, campus literary magazine
- Special art history electives included seminars on South Asian, Buddhist Art (Stanford University)
SKILLS
Warehouse Logistics
- Inventory management & order picking
- Visual and spatial organization
- Written communication, labeling, documentation
Content Creation & Community Outreach
- HTML/CSS, graphic design (print, web)
- Written communication (correspondence, procedure documentation, social media content, newsletters, copy editing)
