8-shaft loom for sale

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This is a 40″ weaving width Harrisville Design with 8 shafts. Lots of heddles. Just what you need to go to the next level. Also includes a raddle, 2 reeds, lease sticks, a spool rack, a warping board and a warping wheel. It has a tension brake and new wires. It comes with lots of chains for tie-ups. I can add some stick shuttles if you’re interested. The back beam folds but not the front. This makes for a solid loom. Blankets and rugs can be woven on this as well as fine items. It works great. I just need the room.

Historic Textile Day Invitation

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This is a special invitation from Diane Howes, a fellow weaver. The event is happening this coming Wednesday, and all are welcome! They still have space.

At The James House, Hampton NH

Wednesday September  26th, 2018   11am until 3pm

Come see our Collection of Early Handwoven Textiles!

Last year, with the closing of the American Textile History Museum in Lowell, the James House was the fortunate recipient of three boxes of early handwoven blankets and two boxes of early handwoven linens as well as many antique textile tools from their artifact collection.

The addition of this new collection complements the display of the James House’s period barn frame loom on which the weaving of a re-production early 19th century blanket is demonstrated to visitors.

The James House is a First Period home built in 1723 by Benjamin James. Benjamin,  his son, Jabez, and grandson, Joshua, were professional weavers in this house for three generations.

Please join us for a day of examining these special textiles and equipment. This will be a hands-on experience and includes a tour of the house.

The fee for this event is a suggested donation of $15, made to The James House Association

Bring a bag lunch if desired.

Other dates are available upon request for groups of 3 or more.

Directions can be found on the museum website.

To sign up or for more information, please call or email:

Diane Howes

603-382-2270 or howesfarm@comcast.net

For more information on the James House:   http://www.jameshousemuseum.org/

Meeting Reminder! 25 Sept, 7pm!

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We will be meeting at The Fiber Loft on September 25th, to kick off our fall programs.  Fellow member Leslie Ardison will lead our discussion this month:
 
“I love the colors and feel of that postcard, I’d really like to translate that to a woven item, but how?”  This year’s guild challenge is to use a postcard as inspiration for a woven item.  We’ll look at how we begin to think about doing the translation from picture to woven item.  We’ll look at color, feel, texture, etc.”
Please join us at 7pm for refreshments, library and social time.  Our business meeting will begin promptly at 7:30.
If you haven’t already paid your dues for this coming year, they remain at $25.  Please make checks payable to NVWG.
Also, if you took a yarn kit for last year’s challenge, please bring any empty cones back to Kathy, who generously loaned them out to us all.
Finally, this Sunday, 23Sept, is our next Iron Work Farm Open House.  We are looking for members to volunteer weaving, spinning, etc, at the Faulkner House in Acton, from 3-5pm.  The “house” loom is set up already to weave on, so if you can’t bring in a project, there’s one already waiting for you.  They would also welcome any other fiber arts, if you can carry in a project.  Please let us know if you can make it by sending a note to laura@northbrookalpacas.com.
Hope to see everyone next Tues!

More about twist

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I’m on my way to a textile history forum in Vermont and am catching up on reading some old magazines. (Don’t worry, my husband is driving!) I ran across this article about twist that is a good follow up to the program we had at a guild meeting this past year. Just sharing. It’s from Weaver’s magazine, issue 15.

Faulkner Open House and Annual Potluck, save the dates!

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Hi Everyone,

We have two important dates in the next week or so.  The first is a demo/open house at The Faulkner House in Acton.  I plan to be there from 3-5pm on Sunday, 24June.  Can anyone join me?  I know, this slipped thru the cracks, and is last minute.  If anyone can be there, please email me at laura@northbrookalpacas.com.  It’s at 5 High St, Acton Ma.  Note, they are having a “Frolic in Fairyland” kids event from 1-3, before the open house.  I will bring a spinning wheel, but also be prepared to weave on the Faulkner House Loom.  Please join me if you can.  Sorry we didn’t get this announcement out sooner!

We also have Faulkner Open Houses on 22July, 23 Sept, and 14 Oct.  Please also let us know if you can do any of those.  We will be putting out reminders (hopefully with more notice than this Sunday!).

The second, very important date is for our annual potluck meeting, 26June, at Reba’s, starting at 6:30pm.  Specific details will follow via direct email.  Plan to bring a dish to share, a place setting (plate, silverware, cup, napkin), your guild challenge, and your wallet….Reba will be having a yarn sale, with 25% going to the guild.  Cash, checks and credit cards welcome.  Also bring any other show and tell you might have.  I think we’ll have a lot of fun seeing what everyone’s done this year.  And seeing what everyone did differently for the challenge!

This will be a great finish to our guild year, and an opportunity to do some outreach at Faulkner over the summer!

Hope to see some of you Sunday, and most of you next Tues!!!

Laura

 

 

Meeting Reminder, 22May2018 at 1pm (note time and location change!)

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Dimensional Double Cloth Presented by Anastasia Azure!

Note: This is an afternoon meeting, held at 1pm, at the Harvard Cultural Collaborative at 7 Fairbank St, Harvard MA

This presentation will highlight the sculptural possibilities of the double-cloth technique. Anastasia Azure weaves extensively with the double-cloth technique, transforming metals and plastics into dimensional weave forms and jewelry. Short videos will reveal her tips and tricks to working with fine wire and slippery fishing line on a loom. Weavers will leave inspired to create unusual shapes with unconventional materials.

24 April 2018 Meeting, Prototyping New Fabrics for Electronic and Industrial Use

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Our next meeting will be held at The Fiber Loft on 24April.  Come by for social and library time at 7pm.  The meeting will start promptly at 7:30.

Chriztine Foltz – “Fibers are the building blocks for my creating. These fibers form my textiles, my thoughts, my community, and my home; intertwining and interlacing everything into that which I am”.

Chriztine Foltz is an interdisciplinary artist who initially started as a textile designer. Textiles created the foundation upon which she built her artistic practice which commenced in Denmark at the Danish Design School (now part of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Architecture School), where she studied techniques for woven and surface designed fabrics.

Upon return to the United States, she settled in NYC, designing woven fabrics for interiors and wearable accessories such as raincoats, umbrellas, hats, handbags and scarves as an independent contractor.Working on the “SWATCH” Accessory Design Team in the mid 1980s, her designs were being stolen/reworked in the orient and reproduced before the samples were returned to her in NYC. This lack of control sent Chriztine back to school to learn computer graphics and she worked in the graphic arts arena for the next 15 years, before returning to her roots in textiles and weaving.

Weaving again, teaching at the Worcester Center for Crafts and at local colleges, Chriztine found her ‘over/under’ rhythms again. Discovering that engineering companies needed designers of fabrics and clothes, she started working on projects for military and medical use. This collision of artistic, industrial, and scientific worlds has encouraged her to work on diverse projects as well as work with teams of engineers and scientists to create innovative new forms of textiles including the spinning of CNTs (carbon nano tubes) into yarn, weaving fabrics for the International Space Station, and creating fabrics for medical devices. The interlacing of these worlds, art and design, ignites and re-ignites her desire to create solutions aimed at enhancing our quality of life.

Chriztine has a Masters of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Art from Goddard College. The tapestries she created for her Master’s were jacquard woven in black and white and then hand painted, merging her original studies of woven and surface design, closing the circle of her education.