KLAMATH SPINNERS’ & WEAVERS’ GUILD NEWS June 2014
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Klamath Spinners’ and Weavers’ News Guild annual dues are
$10/year. Dues are due in November and
can be given or sent to our treasurer, Karen Williams, 1700 Fairmont St.,
Klamath Falls, Or 97601. Thanks to everyone who has paid.
Thank you Karen for a very interesting
meeting on inkle weaving! Thanks for
warping all those inkle looms! Thanks also for the extensive inkle loom
reference list in the May newsletter.
This
Month’s Meeting
This
month our meeting will be Tuesday June 10thth
at 10am in the back room of the Klamath County Museum, 1451 Main St.,
Klamath Falls, Oregon. This is our annual potluck, so please bring a potluck
dish and your plate and silverware. We
will also be having a carding and blending party, so if you have any fiber you
would like to card, please bring it. (Please
leave mohair at home, as we have some members with allergy issues.) Please
bring any carding or combing device you may have. The owners of the carders or
combs are in charge of their carder or combs.
We all know what our carder or combs can or can’t handle, so I will give
each carder an exercise to try and then after our exercise is finished if we
want to card other fibers, we can!
If
you would like to be part of a summer spinning challenge, please let Kathy
Nelson or I know. At the June guild
meeting we will be dividing up 2 oz of different fibers; so far, white wool,
beige, white and dark gray llama fiber, silvery gray wool and dark alpaca. Each person will take home 2oz of each fiber.
1 oz will be spun with the fiber only, and the other oz can be blended and spun
as the spinner chooses. Come and join in
the fun, the more the merrier!
From
the Library
Book Review for June by Karen
Williams, Guild Librarian.
Miller, Barbara with Deb Schillo. Frances
L. Goodrich’s Brown Book of Weaving Drafts, Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.,
2013, 192 pp.
In the late 1800s Miss Frances L.
Goodrich arrived in the southern mountains of North Carolina as a
representative of the Presbyterian Home Mission Board to provide education and
spiritual support to the local rural inhabitants. Prior to this journey, Miss
Goodrich had studied at Yale Art School for four years, however at that time
Yale did not give degrees to women, so instead she was given a Certificate of
Attendance. During her many years of service to the mountain communities in
North Carolina she established schools, a small hospital and, on her own time,
the Allanstand Cottage Industries to support local spinners and weavers. Over
the more than forty years she worked she also collected and compiled weaving
drafts and dye recipes in her brown leather diary; her efforts kept the dwindling
community weaving skills alive, gave the women pride in accomplishments,
and a small stream of income to them from sales of their textiles. In 1908, a
salesroom of baskets and weavings was established in Ashville; there are still
remnants of this legacy today.
This
book documents and continues to preserve a good portion of the collected
weaving drafts, most are elaborate appearing and bedazzling overshot patterns
handed down in families for generations on tattered slips of paper or from
someone’s memory. A few vintage photos of local spinners and weavers, as well
as Miss Goodrich astride her usual transportation… her favorite pony, give a
brief glimpse into her life and activities in the remote rural mountains in
North Carolina.
A P.S. for those who attended the May
guild meeting. The Mr. Kennedy I referred to during the discussion about
spinning flax is the Scotsman, Norman Kennedy, who has a long career of
historical reenactments in the colonial period back east demonstrating spinning and weaving. His Interweave DVD,
Traditional Techniques, Spin Flax and Cotton, Bonus: Indigo Dyeing, is
very informative about some old home and cottage industry methods of preparing
flax and cotton for spinning on spindles or wheels.
Shops with
Classes around the Area
Middleford Yarn & Stitchery Shoppe, 30 N. Central Ave. ( new address), Medford,
OR 97501. 541-734-8800. www.miyarn.com
Eugene Textile Center, 1510
Jacobs Drive, Eugene, OR 97402,
541-688-1565, www.eugenetextilecenter.com
Events
Sunday, June 15th, History Day at Collier Park, Collier Park, about 30 miles north of Klamath
Falls on Hwy 97. 9am to 5pm. Demonstration by the sheepherder’s cabin. Volunteer opportunity
and volunteers needed!
Thursday, June 19th, Third Thursday in Downtown Klamath Falls, 6-9 pm.
Also, on July 13th and August 21st. For more
information and to know where to go, please contact Karen Willliams; kage.wms@charter.net or
call 541-884-3175. Volunteer opportunity
and volunteers needed!
Friday,
June 20th-Sunday, June 22nd, 2014, Black Sheep Gathering, Lane County Fairgrounds, Eugene, Or
. For more info: www.blacksheepgathering.org
September 11-14, 2014, Warner Mountain Weavers 14th
Annual Woolgathering, Cedarville, CA for more information, call 530-279-2164 or
email: info@warnermtnweavers.com, website: www.warnermtnweavers.com
September
27th & 28th, 2014, Oregon Flock and Fiber Festival, Canby, OR., for more info: www.flockandfiberfestival.com
September
11-13, 2015, Tentative
Bend Weaving and Spinning Workshops, Mt. Bachelor Village, still in the planning stages, Klamath
Spinners’ and Weavers’ Guild will provide 5 - $40 scholarships to KSWG
members who attend.
Ideas for next year…….
Have
a “video” year, in which we watch a different fiber related video at our
meetings.
Start
having evening meetings, especially during the summer months.
Start
a “Facebook” page.
Have a get together at the Saturday Market this
summer.
Check out the new Weaving
Guilds of Oregon website:
