Klamath
Spinners’ & Weavers’ Guild News May 2012
37291
Agency Lake Loop Rd., Chiloquin, OR
97624
541-891-0817
website:
www.KlamathSWguild.blogspot.com
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otherwise. Thanks.
What a very interesting and smooth way
of warping a loom that Karen showed us last month! Thank you to Karen for
demonstrating and leading the meeting!
Do you know what our president, Carol Wylie
did? First, she sewed 100 aprons all by
herself for the convergence last summer and donated them to the
conference. And, because of her efforts
our guild received $500 from Weaving Guilds of Oregon! Carol then donated that
money to the Klamath County Museum on the guild’s behalf. She deserves special kudos, don’t you
think?! Thank you Carol for all your
energy, kindness and generosity for our guild!.
This Month’s
Meeting
This month’s meeting will be Tuesday, May 8th
at 10am in the back room of the Klamath County Museum. This month is a working
meeting. Bring whatever you are working
on! We will also discuss volunteering at various venues coming up. There will
also be more booklets from Dorothy
Anderson’s collection that will be for sale for $3 each.
June
meeting: Our Cedarville field trip visiting Warner Mountain Weavers Tuesday,
June 12th.
From the
Library
From the guild library by Karen Williams
(This text is not part of the guild library, however a copy is available
at the Klamath County Library)
Prehistoric
Textiles, the development of cloth in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages
E.J.W. Barber, Princeton University
Press, 1991, 471 pages.
This book provides extensive discussions
of ancient plant and animal source fibers, spindle spinning, evidence
supporting the use of a variety of loom types, as well as off loom weaving
techniques and equipment, examples of textile weaving done at archeological sites;
plain, plaid, tapestry and twill weaves, knotted pile carpet, and sprang. Differentiation between fiber felts and woven
felts, as well as mention of old wool fabric is reviewed and examples of
excavation finds (particularly gravesites) have shown many clothing items were
purposely fulled or felted to aid the wearers’ comfort in inclement and cold
weather.
Ms. Barber includes a chapter on ancient
use of dyes: artifacts, processes,
examples of some dyes used, resulting colors from dyes, mordants and excavation
evidence of locations of dye-works (they were smelly affairs requiring lots of
water and areas to dry dyed materials).
The book contains black and white photos
of ancient fabric and textile equipment fragments, details of textile
production depicted on pottery and excavated walls, geographic maps, and
diagrams of weave structures.
A cautionary note: Ms. Barbers book is
more of a complex college text than the smaller, easier to read tantalizing
tome, The Mummies of Urumchi
(reviewed for September 2009 newsletter. It may be a worthy pursue!
Connie McCormick donated a LeClerc loom to the guild, which is for
sale. The loom is at the Klamath County
Museum set up with a warp on it. The
Museum has been very generous with their room rental, making our use enjoyable and offered space to
keep the loom there. It would be a wonderful show of support if anyone would or
could volunteer to weave on the loom as a demonstration during museum hours. It
is warped with plain weave. The Museum is very happy to have us demonstrating
as long as the loom is there. Carol and
Karen have been weaving and have woven 3 dishtowels already! The Museum’s hours
are 9am-5pm, Tuesday through Saturday.
Shops with
classes around the area
Please visit these shops,
call and/or check out their websites to learn more about available classes.
Laize Dayz Yarn
and Tea Shop
2617 Pershing Way, Klamath Falls, Ore. 541-892-6856 www.laizedayz.com
Classes are resuming with Theresa, Shirley, Kay and Sherry.
Warner Mountain
Weavers 459 South Main St., Cedarville, CA
530-279-2164. www.warnermtnweavers.com
This
Saturday, May 5, Potluck, Stephen West Knitalong class, gallery opening!
Events
Friday,
May 11 and Saturday, May 12, 2012 Lava Beds History Days, Lava Beds, CA. For more info
contact Margie Brick at 541-883-3071or Karen Williams at kage.wms@charter.net
Friday,
May 18 to Sunday, May 20, 2012 Conference of Northern California Handweavers, Oakland
Convention Center, Oakland, CA www.cnch.org
Friday, May 18 to Sunday May
20, 2012, Fiber in the Forest, Camp Myrtlewood, OR. For more information Call the Eugene Textile Center at
541-688-1565 or www.eugenetextilecenter.com
Thursday
May 24 to Sunday, May 27th, 2012 Heritage Days at Ft. Klamath, Ft. Klamath Museum on Hwy 62.
Thursday,
May 31 to Sunday, June 3, 2012 NWRSA, Northwest Regional Spinners
Association Conference, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA www.nwregionalspinners.org
Sunday,
June 17, 2012 Living History Day at Collier Park. 9am to 5pm. Come
and Demonstrate! Joel can be reached at the park at 541-783-2471 for
interested demonstrators to obtain the paperwork to have a name tag. It is suggested that demonstrators wear
period clothing, though no specific time period is specified. It is a fun event
and there are food vendors as well as other folks there so volunteers and
visitors can enjoy the park.
Friday,
June 22 to Sunday, June 24, 2012 Black
Sheep Gathering, Lane County Fairgrounds, Eugene, OR. www.blacksheepgathering.org
Saturday,
July 15 through Sunday, July 21, 2012, Convergence 2012,Long Beach, CA www.weavespindye.org
Thursday,
September 6 through Sunday, September 9, 2012 Tulelake-Butte Valley Fair, The guild has agreed to demonstrate Saturday,
September 8th. It is a very
fun time. www.tvbfair.com
Tuesday,
September 25 through Sunday, September 30, 2012 ,National Sheep Dog Finals, Kerr
Ranch on Lower Klamath Lake Road, Klamath Falls, OR. www.2012nationalsheepdogfinals.workpress.com
Monday,
June 17 through Sunday, June 23, 2013, ANWG 2013
Conference (Association of Northwest Weavers Guilds)
Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA www.anwg-conference-2013.com
Classified
45
inch Leclerc 4 shaft loom for sale. 6
treadles. Beautiful and in excellent
shape. $1,000. It was donated to the guild. Various accessories included. Can
be seen at the Klamath County Museum, 1451 Main St, Klamath Falls, OR. For more
information contact Carol Wylie at 541-882-4031 or email rcwylie@charter.net or Sharon Allen at Ballen004@yahoo.com
Sheep
Crossing or Sheep Crossing signs for sale.
Yellow and Black painted ½ inch plywood, 12” square. $15 each. If someone wants a breed that Kathy doesn’t have
and they have a picture, they could email it
and for a few extra dollars, Kathy can make one up. Contact Kathy at 541-884-2412 or email: ksevy@charter.net
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Very interesting…
If
a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air,the person died in battle
If the horse has one front
leg in the air,
the person died because of wounds received in battle.
If
the horse has all four legs on the ground,
the person died of natural causes.
From
an email.
