September 12 - Welcome Back Social, with news and updates. Also enjoy
sharing
your Summer Challenge "About Entertainment".
There will be presentations by various guild members
who have taken courses/workshops during the summer
and
want to share their experience.
October 10 - Lorraine Smith will guide a hands-on session of fibre
blending
using hand-cards. This technique allows the
spinner or felter to create unique, rich blends of a wide
range of fibres and colours in a simple, versatile and
and portable manner. More details and photos on this
technique can be found at
No experience is required to gain an appreciation for this
indispensable method-- just bring a pair of hand-cards,a
range of fibres to play with, and an open mind. Warning:
participants in this session may never see colour the same
way
again!
Lorraine Smith is a Toronto-based fibre artist and the
publisher
of Spinners' Quarterly, a printed newsletter
discussing handspinning in the modern world. She is
currently in the sixth year of the Ontario Handweavers &
Spinning Association's Certificate program, and is a
regular
instructor of spinning and blending techniques
for the Downtown Knit Collective. Lorraine is also an
accomplished knitting designer, and enjoys other fibre
including
weaving, embroidery and felting. More
information
can be found at her website,
November 14- Jette Vandermeiden, an excellent weaver
and former editor of the
OHS
magazine will present "Damask Goes North: The Story of the
Tablecloth". Where does the tablecloth come from? Why is it used?
Tracing the emergence of the tablecloth through the centuries closely
follows the movement of the damask from the Middle East up to
Scandinavia through Europe. The development of the drawloom
and the Jacquard loom in Europe brought enormous cultural and
societal changes to professional weavers of the time. Connections
between religious and political events and the development of
damasks and linens as royal textiles tell an interesting story of the
influence of weaving on world events through the ages
December 12- Small group sharing of "a textile that comes from far
away,
and the story about it".
Bring
items for the Christmas Sale while partaking in the
Christmas Social Dinner and Dessert Pot Luck.
January No meeting
February 13- 6:30 -8:00 at the Textile Museum, 55 Centre Avenue
Guild
members will be offered a curator-guided tour to two
exhibitions:
"Creatures of the Andean Cosmos" and "The
Blues"
March 14- Michael Gervers, Professor of History at the University of
Toronto, and Research Associate, Department of Textiles, at
the Royal Ontario Museum, will speak on "Felt in Mongolia"
April 11- Dr. Ka Bo Tsang, who curated "Tuched by Indigo:
Chinese
Blue-and-white Textiles and Embroidery" at the ROM
(2005), will speak on indigo dyeing. Dr. Ka Bo Tsang is the
curator
of Chinese pictorial arts and the consultant for the
Chinese textile and costume collections at the ROM.
May 9- Bursary winner Mieke
Cryns will present on her "Woven
Shibori" subject.
June 11- Pot Luck Social, Auction, Bursary Announcement and
Summer
Challenge announcement.
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