Weaving and other fiber-based fun for 45 years and counting
THURSDAY
We meet at 11:30 for brown bag lunch followed by the meeting at 12:30. Our program is the Nuno Felting presentation by Robbie Grodin.
Church of the Saviour, 2537 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights, OH 44118,
SATURDAY
One-Day Workshop on creating a nature-inspired Nuno Felt Scarf with Robbie Grodin
Ele Richardson will be leading us in constructing a decorative ball with fabrics and pins. The day’s program also includes her presentation on rigid heddle weaving and her experiences at the John C. Campbell Folk School workshop.
Anyone who wants to make the ornament at the October 15th meeting will have to bring:
We will supply the balls. There will also be extra fabric and ways to cut more squares.
The schedule of events for the 2015-16 weaving year is now posted on our handy Schedule page. Check it out, and if you haven’t done so yet, do join us for some fiber-related fun this year!
Member Nancy Curtiss writes:
A Weekend with Jette Vandermeiden presented by the Western Reserve Spinners & Weavers Guild
Dear Guild Member and Friend,
The members of the Western Reserve Spinners and Weavers guild would like to cordially invite you to a very special workshop and lecture event featuring Jette Vandermeiden. She is a dynamic speaker, teacher and accomplished drawloom weaver and has given lectures most recently at the 2014 Complex Weavers Seminar. We are very excited to have her here in Northeastern Ohio.
She will be our featured guest teacher this November 7-8 teaching a concurrent workshop for 8 shaft looms – All Tied-Up! and for 4 shaft looms – The Versatile Twill… and Beyond!
In addition to the workshop we’ll be kicking off our time with Jette with a Friday night lecture which is absolutely free andopen to members of any guild, regardless of whether you will be attending the workshop. Please consider this an invitation to join the Western Reserve Spinners & Weavers at 7PM on Friday, November 6th as we learn about:
Damask Goes North: the history of the tablecloth
Where does the tablecloth come from? Why is it used? Tracing the emergence of the tablecloth through the centuries closely follows the movement of damask from the Middle East up to Scandinavia through Europe. The development of the drawloom and the Jacquard loom in Europe brought enormous cultural and societal changes to professional weavers of the time. Connections between religious and political events and the development of damasks and linens as royal textiles tell an interesting story of the influence of weaving on world events through the ages.
We have several places still open for our special Concurrent 8 shaft and 4 shaft workshop, and for your information I’ve attached a copy of the flyer for this program. I hope that you’ll share this information with your guild and any weavers that you know. Spaces are limited, so please contact Nancy Curtiss for availability. Susan Conover of Conover Workshops has offered to supply kits for the participants of these 2 workshops, which will include pre-wound warps with the weft materials that you’ll need in your project. If you wish to choose this option, pricing and ordering of these kits will be available to attendees later this summer. I hope that you find the attached concurrent workshop offerings intriguing!
All events will be held at Lake Metroparks Farmpark, 8800 Euclid Chardon Road, Kirtland, OH 44094.
Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions about either the lecture or the workshop. We look forward to these events, and hope that you’ll be joining us!
Nancy Curtiss, 2015 Workshop Chair
This Thursday, April 23rd, at our April meeting, Barb Wainright from Rochester, NY, will present a lecture on “Let’s Not Call It Honeycomb” at the usual time – 11:30 am for lunch with a short business meeting at noon, lecture afterwards, and done by 2 pm.
If you are interested in joining the workshop and your schedule has freed up at the last minute there is still room to join us. This is a stash friendly workshop so materials will be inexpensive and easy to find and/or swap amongst ourselves.
Our workshop will start immediately after the Guild meeting, and we are trying a schedule that is a little different to try and accommodate people’s work schedules:
Thursday, April 23rd: from end of Guild meeting until around 5:00 pm-ish then going to supper (optional)
Friday, April 24th: 9:00 am – 4:00 pm and
Saturday, April 25th: 9:00 am – 1:00 pm
Barb’s description of the workshop:
Given the right sett and materials honeycomb can produce tailored, deeply textured fabrics suited to many purposes, even clothing. Fabrics of surprising complexity are possible on only four shafts. Using woven examples we will examine the effects of threading, yarn, sett, and beat in developing texture. We will also consider use of color with this structure. Like all deflected-weft weaves, honeycomb needs wet-finishing to blossom but results can be hard to predict. The samples you create will help you plan future projects with confidence.
More information on Barb’s work can be seen in Handwoven, September-October 2007, page 52 and Interweave Press e-book, Best of Handwoven: Honeycomb Technique Series, which includes her Honeycomb laptop case project. We also have materials in our library about the weaves Barb will be teaching.
We are also trying something new with a limited round robin where each weaver creates samples for herself on only four looms with representative threadings of the entire workshop.
Cost will be $50 per person ($60 for non-CWG members).
If you want to join the workshop, please contact Lynne Killgore.
Barb’s lecture for the Guild, “Let’s Not Call It Honeycomb” will be on Thursday, April 23rd, at the usual time (11:30 am for lunch with short business meeting at noon then lecture afterwards done by 2 pm).
The workshop schedule is a little different. We are trying to make the time more user-friendly to everyone who is working full-time and needs time to run errands or just relax on Saturday.
Thursday, April 23rd: from end of Guild meeting to 4 pm.
Friday, April 24th: 9 am – 4 pm
Saturday, April 25: 9 am – 1 pm
We are also going to try something new with a limited round-robin where each weaver creates samples for herself on only four looms with representative threadings of the entire workshop.
Did a coarse 1970’s wall hanging turn you away from honeycomb? Or was it a stringy sample woven at the end of a tiresome overshot warp? Forget them. Given the right sett and materials honeycomb can produce tailored, deeply textured fabrics suited to many purposes, even clothing. Fabrics of surprising complexity are possible on only four shafts.
Using woven examples we will examine the effects of threading, yarn, sett, and beat in developing texture. We will also consider use of color with this structure. Like all deflected-weft weaves, honeycomb needs wet-finishing to blossom but results can be hard to predict. The samples you create will help you plan future projects with confidence.
For more information on Barb’s work it can be seen in Handwoven, September-October 2007, page 52, and Interweave Press Honeycomb e-book which includes her Honeycomb laptop case project.
Cost will be $50 per person ($60 for non-CWG members). Please send check and registration form to: Jean Jackson, 2980 Washington Blvd., Cleveland Heights, OH 44118.
This is a stash friendly workshop, so materials will be inexpensive and easy to find and/or swap amongst ourselves.
Please come to our April 10th meeting to hear Su Butler‘s lecture on surface design. Su will be here from the greater Chicago area conducting our Easy Pick Up workshop. This meeting is the second week of April rather than our usual third week due to scheduling and holidays. We will meet in our usual space and welcome everyone who is not taking the workshop to come see what we are doing. Brown bag lunch is at 11:30 am with the meeting and lecture at 12:30 pm. See you there.
Member Nancy Curtiss writes:
Hey spinners, do you love color… or are you color-challenged? What about textured yarns? Do snarl yarns, cabled yarns or knot yarns call to you from the pages of your magazines? The mysteries of color blending and plying for texture will be explored with noted spinner and color enthusiast Amy Tyler on April 26th and 27th. Check out her work and then join the Western Reserve Spinners and Weavers for two amazing days of color and texture. There are still a few spaces left, and we hope that you can join us. See our web site for more information!
Victoria will need a count for putting together the kits for the Beading workshop by this Thursday, February 13th, so that she has time to get the materials and assemble the kits. If you wanted to take the workshop but haven’t signed up yet, please contact Patty by end of business on February 13th. Looking forward to seeing you there!
