Klamath Spinners’ & weavers’ guild news November 2012
37291
Agency Lake Loop Rd., Chiloquin, OR
97624
541-891-0817
website:
www.KlamathSWguild.blogspot.com
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This Month’s
Meeting
This month’s meeting will be Tuesday, November
13th, in the back room of the Klamath County Museum at 10am. It will
be about small weaving. Here is the
description from Liz:
Weaving Small
For the November meeting we will do needle weaving. This can become a necklace or a tiny wall
hanging. This weaving will use the same
basics as tapestry weaving or Navaho weaving.
Liz will have some samples to show, and some books to look at.
There will be extra supplies available at the meeting, so if
you are unable to gather the materials don’t let that keep you from attending
the meeting.
What you will need to bring;
1.
Tapestry Needle
2.
Fork
3.
Pen or Pencil
4.
Scissors
5.
Waxed Linen
You can buy this at Oregon Trail Outfitters. Ask - it’s behind the counter. I will have a few bobbins for sale at the
meeting. They are $2.
6.
Foam Board (available for sale at meeting for
$1)
7.
Yarns in a variety of colors ….you can use
anything, but an even spun single ply wool is easy to start with. Perle cotton
embroidery floss is very pretty woven like this. There will lots of yarn available for you at
the meeting if you need. It doesn’t take
much yarn so don’t buy a bunch of skeins, this is a good way to use up some of
those odd bits and end-of-ball yarns.
8.
Optional..Beads with largish holes
It is not
necessary to RSVP, but if you could let Liz know if you are probably planning
on coming it would help her prepare the materials. Once again, please come even if you haven’t
said you were, there will be extra stuff.
hubbardranch@centurytel.net
Agenda for the year
November – Liz Hubbard leading Small Weaving
December – Annual Cookie and
Ornament Exchange
January - A possible retreat for guild members – more
information to come….
February – TBA
March – Beads in Weaving and
Spinning by Sharon
April – open
May – open
June – Annual Potluck
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
.
Events
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
Friday,
June 21 through Sunday, June 23, Black
Sheep Gathering, Lane
County Fairgrounds, Eugene, Oregon www.blacksheepgathering.org
July
2013 Weaving Guilds of Oregon Traveling
Exhibit, in
Klamath Falls, Oregon.
Classified
The
guild has a red Ashford spinning wheel available to loan out to guild
members. If you would like to use it,
please contact Sharon, Ballen004@yahoo.com or 541-891-0817.
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
Colored
Merino Ram and 3 ewes for sale.
$50 for the ram and $125 or BO for the ewes. I want them to go to good homes. The
ewes range in age from 2 to 6 years, base is Montedale/Columbia, with Columbia
or Merino. All are proven, current on shots and worming. ksevy@charter.net
Library
book review
Book review for November 2012 by Karen
Williams, guild librarian. (this is not part of the guild collection)
Medieval
Garments Reconstructed, Norse Clothing Patterns, L. Fransen, A.
Norgaard & Else Ostergard; Aarhus University Press, 2011, 143 pages.
This “sequel” to Woven into the Earth, Textiles from Norse Greenland, explores
the medieval Herjolfnes garments from the perspectives of three textile
experts; Lili Fransen, MSc Clothing Product Development was pattern
constructor; Anna Norgaard was the weaver, and Else Ostergaard, the
conservator. In Chapter 1 Ms. Ostergaard
reviews the historical textile finds and consequent conservation efforts to
preserve the garments. Technical
information and garment types; garments, hoods, caps and stockings are
discussed.
In Chapter 2, Ms Norgaard relates the
efforts and steps in producing a hand-made reconstruction. While the original garments seem to be in a
range of brown tones from being in the ground, there is evidence that most of
the garments were woven in two colors, a natural grey, brown or black warp and
light or white weft. The Nordic
Short-tailed sheep which sometimes shed its fleece annually, had dark hair with
a white underwool. Some overdyeing with
tannin helped even and prolong the color of the fabric. Dyes of indigo (blue), madder (red) and
lichens (red-violet) were also used, though the madder was likely imported.
The warp yarns were almost always Z-spun
(right twisted) at 40-50 degrees; weft yarns were always S-spun at 30-40
degrees. Consistent yarn thickness and
the same number of twists/centimeters are crucial to the quality of the
completed woven fabric. She does mention
use of a spinning wheel or some commercial yarns that could be substituted for
recreation of yarns. One tip she gives
when using handspun yarns, is to weave with two shuttles to even out some of
the yarn differences. The weft threads
from each shuttle are crossed over each other at the selvedge. The original fabrics show this technique was
used frequently. Weaving on an upright
warp-weighted loom (oppstdvev) is
generally used for reconstruction of fabric.
A brief explanation of techniques is included with photos. Sewing methods are illustrated as are table
woven piped edging, foot weave or “slynging”, braided cords (also known as
Faroese cords), and button and buttonholes.
In Chapter 3, Lili Fransen discusses her
reconstruction of patterns based on the Norse garment originals recovered by
Danish archeologist, Poul Norlund on Herjolfnes, in Greenland, in 1921. Some necessary adjustments, in openings and
symmetry of the garments were made in the patterns, since distortions to the
originals were likely created from time spent in the ground with freezing and
thawing, plant/tree root invasion, and retrieval and conservation
interventions. Photos of each original
garment copied and the reconstructed garment are accompanied by a
pattern-cutting layout on woven fabric.
Patterns are given in a 1;5 scale in small, medium, and large sizes.
Metric measurement is used throughout.
Many of the new garments were made of heavy 2/2 twill fabric with 10/9
thread counts per centimeter. All seams
were sewn with a lockstitch machine.
Some cotton bias tape was used as needed and handstitching was done to
complete the reconstructed garments.
This
is truly a treasure trove, if historic textiles or textile reconstruction
methods are an interest!
The
guild has been asked if we would possibly do a display and possibly an activity
at Pelican Point. If you are interested
please contact Joy joymaxh@aol.com
Some guild members are continuing
to weave on the loom at the Klamath County Museum. Please come and weave if you
have some time! The folks at the museum
are very pleased to have the loom and weavers there.
Something
Funny ?
A scientist crossed a sheep with a
porcupine.
He
got an animal that knits its own sweaters……………
Happy Thanksgiving!
