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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 Fall Newsletter News……………..and the blues

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CWG Fall Newsletter is ready, but experiencing problems with digital delivery and posting on the website.  Boo! Hiss!

Here are two options for members:

  1. Notifying us that you’d like it emailed to you to read and/or copy.
  2. Notifying us that you’d like a copy printed and delivered at the September meeting/field trip at the Cleveland Museum of Art on September 19.  Member picks up the newsletter there.  Please designate either B and W, or color.  (You have to know which one will be more economical for the Guild treasury.)

Please select and write to newsletter@cuyahogaweaversguild.com

Apologies for this delay and extra nonsense.

Northern Ohio Textile Artists Inaugural Show opens September 12

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NOTA Show

Victoria shares:

Northern Ohio Textile Artists inaugural show will be presented in the Beachwood Community Center (corner of Fairmount and Richmond) . We were there for our own CWG show there last year. This year 5 members of CWG will be exhibiting there alongside 35 other members of this newly formed group.

Our members who are exhibiting include:

Victoria Johnson-Parratt.

The Choir is a collection of 8 Bobbin Lace Angels.

Joan Horwich. Her piece is called Layers. It’s woven on her 8 shaft loom using cotton and boucle.

JoEllen Salkin’s work is titled I Love Purple.

(I don’t know, but I’m dyeing to see that! 😉

Sheri Gittinger wove an all cotton, Blooming Leaf Baby Blanket.

Our newest member Linda Christopher is presenting a Silk Jacket.

The show is up September 12 thru November 16, 2024.

Opening reception Sept 15

1 to 3 pm

Y’all come see! It’s free!

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

Fall newsletter deadline is approaching—Sunday, September 1 or………

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Fall newsletter deadline is really coming–let’s say September 4 and 5 is realistic after the Labor Day weekend has settled.

Please send newsletter materials, especially items of summer doings and program notes for the upcoming CWG year. A President’s letter, program notes, study group ideas and member’s profile will all be welcome.

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.

In earlier discussions about the foibles of our weaving work might fit into a new 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.

Contribute directly to Nancy or to newsletter@cuyahogaweaversguild.com

 

CMA Mayan Textile Exhibit at the Community Arts Center on August 30

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Hello, CWG members!
Some of you might be interested in the Mayan Textile Exhibit opening at the Cleveland Museum of Art Community Arts Center on the 30th. Information is available here about the exhibit and the various associated events: Vintage Maya Textile Reception | Recepción de Textiles Mayas | Cleveland Museum of Art

Market Chichicastenango

Market Chichicastenango, 1956. Mabel A. Hewit (American, 1903–1984). 2004.187

Thanks for your interest!
Laura Martin

CWG Dye Day is Thursday, August 15. Bring your yarn. And a bag lunch

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We hope you saved the date for this fun opportunity.

The CWG will hold its annual Dye Pot Day on Thursday August 15 in Jean and Bob Breitzmann’s backyard yard from 9:00 until 3:00. Come when when you can, leave when you run out of fun. Bring a bag lunch if you like. We will have natural dye pots of Indigo, Cochineal, Madder, Black Walnut, and Logwood. We will also have Procion Dye for cellulose fiber in a rainbow of colors. Bring your own fiber to dye.

Contact Bob and Jean for directions.  See the member roster.

Look! Congratulations are in order. Bob Breitzmann and People’s Choice Award

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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/

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.