Isn’t this great!
September meeting
Meeting tonight at the Fiber Loft
This is a duplicate of the email that went out to all.
Our first meeting will be held at 7pm on 27Sept, at The Fiber Loft. Please bring in your summer weaving successes and failures for show and tell (or your stories of what’s on your loom if you can’t bring it in yet)! Please also bring your smart phones, tablets and laptops. We will have a tutorial for posting to our website/blog and will be helping everyone to sign up to receive Guild emails via the website.Please also bring your dues, if you haven’t already paid them. They are due by the Oct meeting. Dues are $25. Checks should be made payable to NVWG. Cash is also fine.
Social Catalysts
Anybody remember what they use for warp? Cotton, I believe, but what weight? (I have a question from the weaving list.)
My lovely Dorothy loom for sale.
I’m selling my LeClerc 4-harness table loom (Dorothy). Lovely loom. Great for taking to workshops. I think the reed with it is a 10 dpi. I’m selling to guild members for $250. Non Guild members: $275 which includes a $25 donation to the guild. Spread this around. Great price. Great loom.
Potluck Supper
The Nashoba Valley Weavers’ Guild Potluck Supper and Annual Meeting is coming up. It will be held on Tuesday, June 28th at 6:30 pm. (Please note the change in time from our regular meetings.) The location will be sent by email.
Please bring:
· Dish to share (beverages will be provided by the guild)
· Place setting
· Your guild challenge project
· Dues of $25 for 2016-2017 (checks can be made out to Nashoba Valley Weavers’ Guild)
· Grab bag item (something (nice) from your stash OR a fiber related purchase not more than $10
This will be our last meeting before our summer break.
Yarn: The Movie article in Sunday Boston Globe 6/19/2016
From the Sunday Globe 6/19. “Yarn:The Movie” screening Saturday 6/25 at 1pm at the Scandinavian Cultural Center in West Newton.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/movies/2016/06/…/story.html
Demonstrating at Iron Works Farm
We have our first opportunity to demonstrate at Iron Works Farm in Acton on Sunday 26 June, 3-5 pm. Their loom is not yet ready for use, but whoever goes could bring the guild loom or their own portable loom. A spinner or other fiber related demo would also be appropriate. If anyone is interested, please reply to this post or send email to chair and we can convey more details.
Well have other opportunities in the coming months on
June 26
July 24
September 25
October 23
October 15 & 16 (Acton Open Studios)
Feel free to express your interest in future days now!
Video: LOW-LOOM TAPESTRY WEAVING I The art of French tapestry making
Just over six minutes:
“After housing a tapestry factory founded by Louis XIV’s Finance Minister Colbert in 1664, Beauvais became France’s national tapestry centre under Napoleon. The traditional “low weave” technique is still used in its workshops today. “You Are Here” meets the master craftsmen who weave colourful creations for France’s state buildings.”
Field trip?
Unusual Materials: From the Almost Familiar to the Odd
The next meeting of the guild will be held on May 24th at the Fiber Loft. The program will be presented by Deb Kaplan and will be on Unusual Materials. Here is her description:
Unusual materials are both ancient and modern. Some will seem similar to yarns you have used before, others will be quite different. Horsehair, paper, straw, stems, unusual silks, plant and animal fiber yarns, and over-twisted yarns have been used for centuries. Elastics, plastics and stainless steel, copper, brass and synthetic metallic yarns are all newer. We’ll look at them all. Why use some of the more unusual materials available? How do you go about evaluating them? We will look at the properties of some more common and not so common materials and compare and contrast.
Come for refreshments, socializing and a selection of library materials at 7 pm. The program will begin at 7:30 pm. A representative of the Fiber Loft will be at the meeting if members wish to make purchases at the store.
April 26th Meeting – Presented by Christine Wyman
Social Catalysts Charitable Foundation Presented by Christine Wyman
Tuesday, April 26, 2015 at the Fiber Loft, Harvard, MA. Come at 7pm for refreshments, to peruse library selections and to socialize. The program begins at 7:30pm.
Christine Wyman will talk about the founding and current status of Social Catalysts Charitable Foundation, www.socialcatalysts.org, a non-profit 501(c)3 organization that creates weaving programs in order to help employ individuals with significant disabilities. Products similar to the bags pictured above will be available for sale at the meeting.
Christine Wyman, Co-Founder, Social Catalysts – B.S., Materials Science & Engineering, Cornell University, MBA, Dartmouth College, Past Chair and Current Member, Central Massachusetts Advisory Board, Center for Women & Enterprise
After a career in high tech R&D and marketing, Christine founded Social Catalysts, having seen first-hand the difficulties that individuals with disabilities face and the need for solutions. Christine and her co-founder, Ashwin Mehta, learned to weave at the Fiber Loft and those skills laid the foundation for their work at Social Catalysts.