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If you like Molas, mark your calendar for Wednesday December 8 at noon.

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Follow the Cleveland Museum of Art and its Desktop Dialogue.
Fashion Identity: Mola Textiles of Panama.   
https://www.clevelandart.org/close-looking-at-a-distance

Stitching Complexity

Wednesday, December 9, 12:00 p.m. EST

Join program host Key Jo Lee and CMA research fellow Andrea Vazquez de Arthur for a deep and guided exploration of a single mola, made using appliqué and reverse appliqué techniques. Learn about these processes and their complex associations with the Guna understanding of the universe.

Watch the most recent Desktop Dialogue to learn more about the meaning of molas, the subject of the current exhibition Fashioning Identity: Mola Textiles of Panamá, in Guna culture.

Check out the program about Molas at Cleveland Museum of Art

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Look for it on Wednesday, November 18 at noon.   A Desktop Dialogue from CMA

https://www.clevelandart.org/desktop-dialogues

Their description follows:

How do materials and fabrication processes convey meaning in a work of art or design?

Join CMA research fellow Andrea Vazquez de Arthur and museum guide Leonardo Pérez Carreño from the Museo de la Mola in Panamá City, Panamá, for a conversation about making and meaning in molas, a key component of traditional dress among indigenous Guna women and the subject of the upcoming exhibition Fashioning Identity: Mola Textiles of Panamá.

 

A Holiday show and sale opportunity. Submit to Patty on Nov 16 -20.

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Hi Weavers,
Our Guild has been asked to participate in a Holiday Show at the Wenk Gallery in Chagrin Falls from Nov. 23-Dec.23, 2020. There will be other artisans there including a ceramicist, painter, glass maker and a jeweler. We have at least three people who have agreed they are willing to show their items. This will not be a Weavers show but an opportunity to sell our items at the Holidays. Some weavers have declined the opportunity which says this is not a true Weavers Show where we usually try to display a lot.
I will be able to gather the items the week of Nov 16-20 and I will help with the display. Please contact me.
Each weaver will have to put a hang tag on each item with your name, piece information and a retail price. You  do not have to show a lot of items. We will not be expected to sit in the gallery during the times (10 am-3:00 pm week days) it is open to the public. Frankly, I discouraged this for distancing reasons.
The Gallery will be closed the week between Christmas and New Years so items will be able to be picked up Jan 4th.
Chagrin Arts, the sponsor of this show, has said they would love to have us back at the gallery at a later date. They loved our show last year and hope we will keep it in mind for—WHENEVER.
Thank you and weave 0n….
Patty

Praxis is selling a loom

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Lynne K shared this a while back. From our friends at Praxis, this offer of a loom for sale.  If interested please check that it’s still available.
Thanks go to Lynne.
Hi all,
Hope you all are well! I am contacting you from Praxis Fiber Workshop, because we have a loom that needs a good home. It is a 12 harness 60″ wide jack Leclerc with a double back beam. It is in good condition, accept it is missing several dowel pins that need replaced. We love this loom, unfortunately we do not have room for it anymore in our crowded studio. We are only asking $500 and that it goes to a good home. Please pass this on to your fellow guild members or anyone you think might have a need. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. Thank you!
Warmest wishes,
Anna Routson
Studio Manager
Praxis Fiber Workshop

Weavers Sale, February 2,8,9

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Dear fiber friends, please share this with other weavers and sewers who may be interested.  Many thanks.  Nancy Curtiss, WRSW;

Thanks to Nancy C and Joan H for getting this to you.

Weaver’s Sale

Sunday, February 2, 12-5

Saturday, February 8, 10-5

Sunday, February 9, 12-5

 

Address is 740 Cornflower Lane, Madison, OH (41 miles east of Cleveland)

Western Reserve Spinners and Weavers guild member Uarda Taylor passed away on January 1, 2020, and asked that her weaving and sewing stash and equipment be given to her guild.

Members of WRSW (Kirtland, OH) invite you to a special sale this coming Sunday and next weekend.

Items include: Schacht 8 shaft Baby Wolf, Louet Megado 16 shaft dobby, AVL warping reel, various weaving equipment.  Fine weaving cottons, Tencel, silks, wools, and novelty yarns. Assorted knitting yarns, pre-wound warps.  Sewing Items include a basic Bernina sewing machine and a Singer Featherweight. Small selection of fabrics suitable for clothing and tailoring, including silks, rayons, cotton, and Italian wools.  Materials for tailoring, including linings and substructure paddings and supports.

Cash preferred. No early-birds, please

From our WRSW friends

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Announcing the WRSW 2020 Spring Weaving workshop – Yer Granny’s Overshot at Lake Metroparks Farmpark. Please see attached flyer.  As of 11/1/19 we have only 2 spaces left in this exciting workshop.  Please contact WRSW Workshop Chairman Nancy Curtiss for availability.  330.995.3811or nancy@truthforlife.org .  We will also have a wait list.

Now open to non-WRSW members as of November 1!

Yer Granny’s Overshot – with Janet Dawson – March 28 & 29, 2020

This round robin workshop will cover overshot basics like identifying blocks, tromp-as-writ, star vs. rose fashion, and opposites. With that foundation, we’ll move beyond traditional patterns and treadling to variations like Italian, flamepoint, swivel, petit point, shadow, treadled as lace, and more. If time allows, we’ll also look at name drafting and other methods of designing original overshot patterns for four shafts.

 

The cost of our comprehensive overshot workshop includes pre-wound warps and weft, as well as substantial handouts.

 

Leslie looks for a roomie for MLH for May 30-June 4

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She writes:

Is anyone planning to attend MLH in Holland, MI this year? The conference is May 30-June 4th. I just booked a room at Haworth Inn to avoid all the dorm craziness. Plus it has AC, continental breakfast, parking, etc. The cost per person (two queen beds) is approx the same as the dorms and much nicer! I’m looking for a roommate! Please contact me at (216)299-0676. Registration for MLH begins January 7th.
I will be out of the country Jan 17- 24 so leave a message on my home phone (440)473-2244 and I’ll return it when I get back.
Leslie

www.mlhguild.org

April meeting is Thursday, April 20 and an interesting loom for sale

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April 20, Thursday 

Mayfield branch of the

Cuyahoga County

PublicLibrary

500 SOM Center Road

Mayfield Heights 44143

 440-473-0350

Presentation by Hildur Asgeirsdottir Jonsson internationally acclaimed

Icelandic fiber artist.

11:30 am for brown bag lunch

12:30 am for meeting and program

 

Loom for sale. CWG received this request to post the sale of this loom,

a nearby opportunity for a newish and quality loom.

Mimi, the contact for this sale writes

“Thank you so much for your response.  I have attached photos of the loom.
I believe you will agree that it is gorgeous.  I understand that it cost
over $1000 when new.  The people who are donating it take very good care of things.  We will be picking it up on Saturday, April 22nd which is the first day for donations to our Trinkets ‘n Treasures rummage sale.  The sale
itself will start on Wednesday night, April 26th from 5:30 to 8:00, $10
admission.  The sale continues Thursday and Friday from 11 to 5 and Saturday until  12:30.  The sale will take place at The Federated Church Family Life Center, 16349 Chillicothe Rd., Chagrin Falls, OH 44023.  I am not sure when on the 22nd the loom will arrive at the Family Life Center.  It can be viewed there on Sunday, April 23rd from 11 to 4 and on Monday and Tuesday, 9 to 5, and Wednesday from 9 to noon.  

We are hoping that it will find a good home.  Thank you for your help in
publicizing this opportunity.”


Mimi Bathgate
mbathgate@windstream.net
440-338-8773 (home)
440-665-6903 (cell)