Cuyahoga Weavers Guild

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CWG meeting is Thursday, February 16—Live or Zoom

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We will meet at the Warrensville Library at 11:30 for a brown bag lunch with the zoom programby Melissa Weaver Dunning beginning at Noon. Melissa (how can we miss with her name including Weaver) is a handweaver, spinner and knitter who works on antique equipment, specializing in 18th & 19th century textiles. She loves tartans, wool and linen weaving. Her presentation will be on Shaker Textiles. Look forward to learning about a Peace Weaver also.Below is the Zoom Link for our meeting on 2/16.
Melissa Weaver Dunning will be joining us to present her talk on Shaker Textiles.
Please include this link when you send out the email to remind people of the meeting, and let people know they can attend the meeting in person, or listen in online.
Topic: Cuyahoga Weavers Guild
Time: Feb 16, 2023 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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Meeting ID: 870 8749 7025
Passcode: CWG

Next study Group is April 6.  March Study Group is postponed until then.

CWG Study Group meets Thursday, February 2, 2023

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Cuyahoga Weavers Guild Study Group
Time: Thursday, February 2, 2023 10:00 AM

Patty Hridel* will be our host.  RSVPs are appreciated.

*refer to the members roster for address or email. (Note: the roster page is under repair, but Patty’s details are there.)

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Here’s our mission.

BOTANICAL

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Whether you choose:

a fiber (i.e., hemp, cotton, bamboo, linen,)

a dye (i.e., indigo, madder)

a subject (i.e., weave a pictorial, tapestry, a color flow as in botanical subject)

a botanical object to weave (i.e., a three-dimensional object maybe, or felt?)

or a combination

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The choices are vast, there being almost no restrictions. Using imaginations and all the resources we have available to us; this should prove to be a wonderful project. And exceedingly interesting for our exhibit that will be on display in April.

Bring your current work, questions, show and tell.

 

CWG meeting is a field trip on Thursday, January 19

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January 19, 2023 10:00 am

​Meet at The Cleveland Museum of Art for our favorite docent, Laura Martin, to lead us through the Cycles of Life: Four Seasons Tapestries. The set of four tapestries depicting the seasons have been harbored from view because of their fragility since 1953. After extensive restoration, these jewels of our museum will be on view only one more month.

Meet at 10:00 to gather, tour to begin at 10:15.

Next study Group is February 2.  Host TBA

CWG Study Group meets Thursday, December 1

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Cuyahoga Weavers Guild Study Group
Time: Thursday, December 1, 2022 10:00 AM

Nancy Allman* will be our host.  RSVPs are appreciated.

*refer to the members roster for address or email

newsletter@cuyahogaweaversguild.com

Here’s our mission.

BOTANICAL

In May, Study group gathered for the finale of the year and harnessed the concept for our coming year Study topic, Botanical. pastedGraphic.png

Whether you choose:

a fiber (i.e., hemp, cotton, bamboo, linen,)

a dye (i.e., indigo, madder)

a subject (i.e., weave a pictorial, tapestry, a color flow as in botanical subject)

a botanical object to weave (i.e., a three-dimensional object maybe, or felt?)

or a combination

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The choices are vast, there being almost no restrictions. Using imaginations and all the resources we have available to us; this should prove to be a wonderful project. And exceedingly interesting for our exhibit that will be on display in April.

Bring your current work, questions, show and tell.

 

Looking for a Textile exhibition? or Textiles & Tea?

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Laura reminds us that there are two interesting textile explorations at hand. These take place before the winter newsletter is published. And make a great way to divert some attention from the holiday preparations.

Happy Thanksgiving to all,

 

 

Textiles and Tea

 

Textiles & Tea

 

December 6, 2022: Pam Howard generously sponsored by Heddlecraft

December 13, 2022: Edwina Bringle generously sponsored by Penland School of Crafts

December 20, 2022: Sally Garner generously sponsored by Grace Tully

December 27, 2022: Christine Keller generously sponsored by Myrna Lindstrom

 

Ancient Andean Textiles

https://www.clevelandart.org/exhibitions/ancient-andean-textiles

 

The textiles in the current rotation from the permanent collection represent several different civilizations that flourished in the ancient Andes, today Peru and parts of adjacent countries. Though unrelated by cultural affiliation, they are unified by being special in some way, whether through rarity, complexity of execution, or luxuriousness of materials. The centerpiece of the display is a unique cloth that experts regard as one of the greatest paintings to survive from South American antiquity. One of the museum’s masterpieces, it was created by an artist of the Nasca culture (100 BC–AD 650) and depicts a procession of figures who may represent humans dressed in the guises of supernatural beings thought to control nature’s fertility. Other textiles in the rotation include a panel covered in the radiant feathers of the blue-and-yellow macaw, made by artists of the Wari Empire (600–1000), and several fragments that are rare survivors of catastrophic rains that destroyed much of the Moche culture’s (AD 200–850) textile legacy.

CWG Newsletter contributions are due December 1

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As autumn is offering its usual mix of lovely and foreboding skies, please mark your calendar for the December 1 newsletter deadline.

Please send newsletter materials, especially items of our doings and program notes for the CWG winter season.

No doubt that photos of your projects, a new technique or yarn you are trying,  or a weaving reference book you have discovered will be welcome. Or even an essay about your weaving adventures, discoveries, or compatriots. Perhaps a quandary that you would like help with.

If you find weaving foibles showing up, send something for our column based on Penelope’s weaving tactics——you know, the part where she weaves and unweaves.  We all have stories about our version, so please send yours.

We are continuing our spotlight biographies of our members. It would be lovely if profiles of our newest members were included. Consider writing this up.

Please consider sharing about your favorite weaving books–your trusted standbys and new-to-you inspiring titles.

Contribute directly to Nancy or to newsletter@cuyahogaweaversguild.com

CWG meeting is Thursday, November 17 Live and via Zoom

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Hello CWG,
We meet in person at Warrensville County Library Branch at 11:30 for brown bag and social time. Our program will begin at 12:00 via Zoom (link is provided here if you are watching from home.)
Warrensville County Branch
4415 Northfield Rd, Warrensville Heights, OH 44128
Bonnie Tarsas will join us via zoom at the Warrensville Library to present Sixty-twoand a Half Years but Who’s Counting, an overview of her weaving journey which includes Color Horoscope, Turned Weft Ikat, Weaving to Origami among others. Our Joan Horwich has taken a workshop with Bonnie and enthusiastically recommends the joy, humor and insights Bonnie will share with us. 
Below is the Zoom invite for the Cuyahoga Weavers Guild Nov 17 meeting
at 12 pm Eastern Time.
Cuyahoga Weavers Guild is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Cuyahoga Weavers Guild Meeting Nov 17, 2022
Time: Nov 17, 2022 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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