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Eleanor Wenzel Richardson

1930 – 2026

Visitation and Memorial service will be Saturday, April 11 at Church of the Savior, 2537 Lee Rd., Cleveland Hts. OH in the Great Hall.

https://www.legacy.com/legacy/eleanor-richardson?utm_source=copiedlink&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=memoriamsconfirmationshare

Member Helena Richardson shares this news.  Her work is included in the Intersections Embodied Threads Exhibit at the Mansfield Art Center.

Sun, Jan 25, 2026 to Sat, Apr 4, 2026

Find details here:

https://mansfieldartcenter.org/Exhibits/Exhibit/6885c4b2-1e8a-4f51-8b1d-aa6bb49d5484

Congratulations from your CWG friends.

Helena continues with this proposal:

“Would the guild (or individuals) like to visit a weaving exhibit I am in? It’s open through April 4th at the Mansfield Art
Center. I’d love to walk through together. All the weavings are different in design and execution and the

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Or bring them to the January 15 field trip at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

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Thursday, January 15

Renaissance to Runway: The Enduring Italian Houses at Cleveland Museum of Art

Field Trip. Our Docent is Laura Martin   Meet at 10:00  Tour at 10:30

https://www.clevelandart.org/exhibitions/renaissance-runway-enduring-italian-houses

Complex Weavers recognizes Bob Breitzmann’s Letting Go

“My goal was to visualize the release from letting go of conflict. The design line was chosen to create the general form. The tie-up was chosen to create bands of color with a sense of depth, and appearance of light coming from above. The weft gradient from a light blue at the top to a dark navy at the bottom reinforces the effect of light shining from above. The warp gradient from purple to gold to purple brings focus to the center with cares falling away. The rose path network was chosen to create the gauze brush strokes.”

The Details:

Techniques:

Warp and weft are hand dyed gradients, each with 25 interleaved colors. Structure is a network draft with a 6-high rose path initial for the threading and the treadling.

Dimensions:

27.625 x 27.625 x 0.75

Materials:

16/2 Hemp

Loom:

32 Shaft Louet

Robert Breitzmann – Letting Go

More to check out https://complexityexhibition.org/all-works/

Perhaps things have been busy in your life?  Most likely. And it’s so easy to forget CWG’s dues.

Yet your CWG friends would like to have you stay on as a member.

Can we count on you to send in this year’s dues?

Won’t you please send your dues to Patty or bring them to next week’s Program at the art museum?

Your CWG newsletter editor didn’t add this to the spring newsletter.   Apologies.

It is good news from Joan Horwich:

I was the moderator for a virtual MAFA class led by Mary Mandarino this past weekend.  The class title was “making woven chenille”.    Mary explained both how to create the chenille as well as how to weave a chenille rug.  The chenille is woven in a plain weave structure using a variety of threads to make up the weft.  After weaving the cloth, it is  removed from the loom and cut into chenille strips. These strips are then used as the weft to create a beautiful lofty rug.  I found this to be very interesting and something out of the ordinary.  Hopefully, I will have a chance to weave a chenille rug in the near future.

And her Transparencies and Blanket

Either the year 2021 or the year 2020 we had an end-of-the-year meeting I believe at Patty Hridel‘s house. I brought a weaving supply piece that I had purchased at an estate sale and never used because I didn’t understand what it was. I think someone took it and said that they would donate it to praxis. It was not Debby Silver or Joanie Horwich because I already spoke to them. Anyways this late in the game I would really love it back. I don’t know what it’s called, but it was about 5 feet tall and may be 12 inches wide, all wood, and it kind of works as a yarn spindle I think. Perhaps if I pushed it down I would’ve realized that it was some type of yarn spindle, but I always left it upright not knowing what it was. I truly hope that one of you have this item or can contact praxis if it was donated. I am having a hard time winding a very long warps by myself. I just went to Holland Michigan for the Michigan League of hand weavers conference and another Weaver told me that that’s what I need! So please help me in finding this lost item. I’d really appreciate it.

Leslie Alperin

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