KLAMATH
SPINNERS’ & WEAVERS’ GUILD NEWS
MARCH 2015
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Klamath Spinners’ and Weavers’ News Guild
annual dues are $10/year. Starting in September of 2015, dues will be going
up to $15/year. Dues are due in November and can be given or sent to our
treasurer, Karen Williams, 1700 Fairmont St., Klamath Falls, Or 97601.
We had another great meeting last month.
Thanks to Kathy Nelson for leading us and teaching us about card weaving. There were quite a few participants and some
very creative, attractive and well done card woven bands.
Here
is the Guild’s agenda for the 2014-2015 year.
March – A bring your current project
work day. Please come and bring whatever
you are working on: Backstrap weaving? Cardweaving?
Knitting? Spinning? Felting?
Whatever you are working on and have an hour or two of working to get it
done! We will be discussing our guild
business also during this meeting.
April – Art yarn- bring a yarn
you have worked on and also bring your wheel to learn a new one at the
meeting.
May – Wet felting hosted by Susan Schuette.
June
- Carding and Blending hosted by Sharon; bring fibers and carders and it is
also the guild annual potluck.
Summer
– Summer dye workshop July 14th, a Nametag meeting for the Bend Retreat, TBA
and possibly a Saturday summer meeting?
The
back room at the Klamath County Museum has been reserved for our meetings once
a month until June.
The
Guild sometimes meets informally in the summer for dyeing or fiber working.
I have
heard from a couple of people who cannot make it to Tuesday meetings, that they
wish we would have a Saturday meeting.
Would anyone like to have a Saturday meeting/get together in August?
News About A New Meeting Place
Danita and Brian Brown’s
church building is looking like it could be a real possibility to be a good
gathering place for the guild starting next September. The Brown’s Church committee met and all were
positive and believe we should continue pursuing a move and then talked about
details that would be discussed with Danita to see if we all were in agreement.
Danita and I met and
discussed and agreed upon details. We
believe we are all excited for the guild to move to their church building by
September.
The committee would like to
have the Guild vote on moving to the Brown’s Church Building at the March
meeting. Please come and vote.
This
Month’s Meeting
This month our
meeting will Tuesday, March 10th at 10am in the back room of the
Klamath County Museum, 1451 Main St., at the corner of Main and Spring
Streets. Please bring a current project
you are working on and vote on the move to the Brown’s Church Building. We will
also be discussing the Bend Retreat nametags and goodie bags.
For those of you in the Spinning Challenge
The Spinning
Challenge was a lot of fun!
Congratulations to everyone who donated fiber and to those who
participated! There is talk of doing
another challenge, this time everyone who wanted to be in the challenge would
get some fiber and do what they want to it, for example, felt, spin or weave?
From
the Guild Library by Karen Williams
Karen
is taking a break this month, so this review is by Sharon[Our guild is 47 years old in July 2015!]
Francis L. Goodrich’s The Brown Book of Weaving Drafts by
Barbara Miller with Deb Schillo
The Brown Book of Weaving Drafts is a historical,
informative and inspiring book. The book was originally a collection of weaving
drafts by Miss Francis L. Goodrich and spans the years between 1895 and
1945. She was the daughter of a
minister. Miss Goodrich spent some time
in Europe in her young life because of her father’s health. While there, she studied art. When she returned to the United States she
had to make a choice between a life of producing art or a life of service. She chose the latter.
Miss Goodrich made it her purpose and mission to help the
Southern Highland women in North Carolina and east Tennessee. She saw the poverty, but was impressed by the
work by many women in that area. Her
goals were to educate, enable the women to be proud of what they produced and
to raise their standard of living. On horseback, she went from community to
community, at first, meeting the women and taking note of their skills. Many
women had weaving drafts that had been passed down through their families, some
were spinners, some were dyers and some were weavers. Miss Goodrich collected the weaving drafts
and dyeing recipes and connected the women with each other by founding the
Allanstand Cottage Industries in North Carolina. It is now called the Allanstand Craft Shop at
the Folk Art Center in Asheville, North Carolina.
Miss Goodrich was not a weaver, but understood the drafts,
learning the notations and vocabulary.
She beautifully painted many of the weaving drawdowns, making her own
graft paper and translating the scraps of handed down paper to what we know as
a weaving draft today.
The Brown Book of Weaving Drafts has predominately overshot
drafts which is what the women were weaving, to use as coverlets. There are a few drafts that are not coverlet
drafts. There are photos of the original scraps of paper, the translated pages
of the scraps of paper, the beautifully illustrated drawdowns, photos of some
of the weaving samples and coverlets and finally the computer generated
translations of the Miss Goodrich’s drafts.
There is also one chapter on dyeing and it is very
interesting to read how the women dyed.
The chapter starts off with a warning, but it is very interesting.
I would recommend this book to anyone who has an interest in
weaving especially, but also history and dyeing. It is humbling to read how folks did so much
with so little. It is inspiring. The
book also has many four harness drafts and much information. It would be a nice and valuable addition to
any fiber artist’s library.
Weaving Guilds of Oregon (WeGO) and
Association of Northwest Weavers (ANWG) news.
Heather Winslow Workshop
Summer Workshop
Guild Postcard
Shops with Classes around the Area
Warner Mountain Weavers, 459 S. Main St., Cedarville, CA,530-279-2164.
Email: warnertmtnweavers@citlink.com Open Thursday- Saturday, 10am to 5pm.
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
Tuesday
Gatherings at Leap of Taste for Fiber Working and Tea Sipping, 9:30 am, 907
Main St.
Bring
Your Own Craft evening at the Klamath County Library, the third Tuesday of the
month which is Janurary 17th, 5:30pm.
1860s Days
There was a very good turnout representing the
guild at the 1860s Days event at the county museum and well received by visitors.Sandra, Kathy, Marjorie, Josie, Jaclyn and Karen demonstrated spinning, inkle weaving, inkle card weaving, and table loom weaving, as well as wool hand carding. Woven, crocheted, and knitted items were also on display. Fun was had by all.
;-)
Karen
Thanks
you to everyone who demonstrated at the 1860’s Days!
Heritage Days- Living history encampment at the Fort Klamath Museum. May
23-24. Free admission. (Thursday and Friday are field trip days for school
children, mainly in the fourth grades throughout the county. Saturday and
Sunday are open to the public. The spinners and weavers usually have use of the
museum’s three-sided canvas tent for demonstration and talks during school
tours on both days, and the rest of the weekend. It can be blustery and cold,
so all that wool spun, knit or woven can be worn for warmth!)
Friday, May 15, Saturday, May 16 and Sunday,
May 17 Fiber in the Forest, Camp
Myrtlewood, 40 miles west of I-5. www.campmyrtlewood.org and www.eugenetextilecenter.com
Friday,
June 19 , Saturday, June 20th and Sunday, June 21st , Black Sheep Gathering, Lane
County Fairgrounds, Eugene, Oregon, www.blacksheepgathering.org
Friday,
through Sunday, September 11-13, 2015, Bend Weaving and Spinning Workshops, Mt.
Bachelor Village, Sarah Lamb and Robyn Spady teachers. Registration opens March 1st. limited to 35
people per class/workshop.
Estimated cost: $250-$265
including meals, lodging and workshops.
Classified
Looking for someone to take over the
newsletter. My last issue will be June 2015.
I will be happy to help the new newsletter person get started. Contact:
Sharon – ballen004@yahoo.com
If
you have any way to take pictures at Guild happenings, please send any that you would want to share to
Kathy Nelson (neks1@earthlink.net)
and she will send them to WeGO and they may post them on their website.
Please
change Judy Olson’s email on your Contact List to: olsonju1@gmail.com
If you would like to continue to
keep getting the newsletter, and haven’t paid the annual Guild dues by June, I will
assume that you would like to be taken off our mailing list. I will be transitioning this newsletter to
the new person along with the June paid membership list. Thank you.
Some
Websites to check out: all are very nice
and interesting!
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