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CWG January meeting is Thursday, January 16. Bring your CWG dues

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Nancy Kilkenny will be presenting on “Turned Drafts”.  This is a reenactment of the October program when the library’s power failed

We meet at 11:30 for social time. Bring your brown bag lunch.

Program begins at 12:00.  We will meet in person.  Additionally ZOOM details are provided below.

Meeting to follow the program.

Meet us at Warrensville Heights Library

warrensville heights library

4415 Northfield Road, Warrensville Heights, Ohio 44128

Bring your CWG dues.

 

Topic: Cuyahoga Weavers – Nancy Kilkenny Presentation
Time: Jan 16, 2025 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Meeting ID: 832 2262 8232
Passcode: CWG

CWG Korean Couture follow up resources

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This comes from Laura Martin:
A follow up with resources mention during her talk or in conversation at lunch afterwards.
Hi!
It was so great to spend time with everyone yesterday. Thanks for inviting me and for giving me lunch! Here are a few follow-up items from some of the things we talked about. I hope you will be able to share this info with the group that was there.
Books
Silk: A World History by Aarathi Prasad (William Morrow, 2024). “Worms’ Work” a review by Jenny Uglow is in The New York Review of Books, 19 September 2024 issue, pp 54-55.
Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years — Women, Cloth and Society in Early Times by Elizabeth Wayland Barber (Norton 1994) and Prehistoric Textiles: The Development of Cloth in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages with Special Reference to the Aegean, also by Barber (Princeton U Press, 1992)
Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World by Virginia Postrel (Basic Books, 2021)
Sheila Hicks
The Ford Foundation textile installation IS made of linen! Read about it here: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/06/arts/sheila-hickss-tapestries-to-again-hang-at-ford-foundation.html
Aimee Lee
Several of us were talking about this recent publication about a Wari textile: The Royal Inca Tunic: A Biography of an Andean Masterpiece by Andrew James Hamilton (Princeton U Press, 2024)
And continuing with one more:
And I now remember that someone asked me for the name of the detective series set in Paris and featuring a detective who is always wearing thrift store vintage couture! It’s the Aimee Leduc series by novelist Cara Black. There are now 21 books in the series and they are best read in order. The list is available at one of my favorite websites: Stop, You’re Killing Me!: http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/
Happy Equinox and I look forward to seeing you again soon.
Laura

CWG Meeting/Field trip to Cleveland Museum of Art is Thursday, September 19

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Thursday, September 19

Korean Couture exhibit at CMA. 

This year we have scheduled our private tour at the Cleveland Museum of Art earlier that in the past so we will be able to see the Korean Couture exhibit as well as other textile related exhibits, all led by Laura Martin. Thursday 19 September at 10:30

Meet at the Information Desk in the Atrium at 10:15. Member Laura Martin leads us for a tour of this fascinating (plus fashionable) exhibit.

https://www.clevelandart.org/

https://www.clevelandart.org/exhibitions/korean-couture-generations-revolution

CWG Meeting/Field trip to Cleveland Museum of Art is Thursday, September 19

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Thursday, September 19

Korean Couture exhibit at CMA. 

This year we have scheduled our private tour at the Cleveland Museum of Art earlier that in the past so we will be able to see the Korean Couture exhibit as well as other textile related exhibits, all led by Laura Martin. Thursday 19 September at 10:30

Meet at the Information Desk in the Atrium at 10:15. Member Laura Martin leads us for a tour of this fascinating (plus fashionable) exhibit.

https://www.clevelandart.org/

https://www.clevelandart.org/exhibitions/korean-couture-generations-revolution

Looking ahead to CWG plans for September 19 and October 17

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Here is an announcement for the first couple of meetings this Fall:
September 19th:  Guild programming this year will begin with a tour by our favorite Docent, Laura Martin, who will lead us on a private tour of Korean Couture and other textile related objects at the Cleveland Museum of Art.  Members should meet at the Information Desk in the Atrium anytime after the museum opens at 10:00; the tour will begin at 10:30.  All are welcome for lunch afterward.
October 17th, 11:30AM:  Guild meeting will be held at the Warrensville Heights Library for our first ‘formal’ meeting of the year.  As is tradition, we will be sharing our fiber creations from the summer, and planning the focus of the Study Group for the year.

CWG May meeting/program is at Praxis

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Thursday, May 16th at 11:30am
For our May meeting, we will assemble at Praxis, 15301 Waterloo  before heading to the Digital Weaving Lab for a tour.  They would like to headcount.  Current members, please email Sheri if you plan to attend (beemerquilter@yahoo.com)