Colorado Weaving Connection
Programs and Workshops for 2008 - 2009
September
Day Guild (Monday the 8th) and Evening Guild (Tuesday the 9th)
Margaret Wahlin - Swedish Travels
Our very own Margaret will delight us with stories of her travels in Sweden.
October
Day Guild (Monday the 13th) and Evening Guild (Tuesday the 14th)
Carol Shinn – Color and Design for Textile Artists
Carol Shinn is a studio artist who lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.
She is known internationally for photo-realistic machine-stitched images.
Her pieces are in numerous public and private collections.
Her work has been featured in such publications as
Margaret has merged her fine arts education with her native American heritage to weave contemporary garments
based on American indian costumes.
Visit her website at: http://www.ozarkartistscolony.com/Wheeler/index.html.
The workshop will present slides and demonstrations explaining the process
of the adaptation of Native American costumes for contemporary wear.
The participants, using summer/winter threading and nontraditional treadling will simulate Native American
quill work, beadwork, ribbon work and feather designs.
The seminar will present ideas to help the participants to develop their own unique style using 4 or 8-shaft looms.
Local archaeologists working in Chinese Turkestan uncovered numerous naturally mummified
and spectacularly clothed bodies of Caucasians dating to the Bronze Age, 3000-4000 years ago.
Since little besides clothing was put into the graves, Dr. Elizabeth Barber, an expert on prehistoric textiles,
was invited to accompany an expedition from the University of Pennsylvania to Western China
to help determine facts about these displaced Westerners.
Why, when, and from where did these folk enter the Tarim Basin with their flocks of woolly sheep
to become the area's first permanent inhabitants,
more than 1500 years before the Chinese established the famed Silk Road from the east?
Dr. Barber’s talk is richly illustrated with her photographs of the often-magnificent textiles
and other artifacts discovered in this remote desert region.
Dr. Barber is Professor of Archaeology and Linguistics at Occidental College in Los Angeles.
She is also co-chair of the Classics Program.
Her research includes the Neolithic and Bronze Ages in the Aegean and southeast European regions,
where she has been particularly interested in early cloth and clothing.
She is author of several articles and books including Women’s Work, the First 20,000 Years,
The Mummies of Ürümchi, and Prehistoric Textiles.
This lecture and reception is co-sponsored by the HGB Library and the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History.
For more information contact
Gail Madden or
Debbie Davis.
This event starts at 11:00 am at the HGB Annual Sale at the Boulder County Fairgrounds.
You can bring your lunch or pre-order a lunch (by Bay Window Catering).
The pre-order form for lunch is available in the
November newsletter.
Deadline for pre-ordering lunch is November 17th.
Coffee and Tea will be provided.
For more information about the sale visit HGB's Annual Sale webpage
Our Christmas party will start at 6:30 pm
at Shuttles, Spindles, and Skeins.
Bring a Christmas treat to share, and a wrapped, homemade Christmas ornament.
Drinks, plates, utensils, etc. will be provided.
HGB member Jennifer is a classically trained fine artist who has been designing and creating art for over 20 years.
For the past 10 years, Jennifer has chosen to focus on textiles and sculptural vessels.
Her work reflects upon the refinement and harmony of fine Japanese craft, the elegance and beauty of European textile traditions,
and the form and texture of American and African art.
Jennifer's "katagami baskets©" are a marriage of basketry traditions and classical forms with pictorial katagami-style handcarved stencils in paper and metal. A fusion of metaphorical imagery and form articulate not only ideas about containment,
but also the ability to conceptualize emotions and reference a certain frame of mind or moment in time.
Jennifer''s work has appeared in publications including Carol creates mixed media fiberart using original photographic images,
which are digitally adjusted and printed on fabric.
The carefully layered imagery is embellished with free motion stitching.
Carol will demonstrate using photographic imagery in quilts.
Beginning with a photograph, she will take us through all the steps involved in creating art quilts and stitcheries.
She will show images and have samples of various materials available.
For over 30 years Carol was a social worker and psychotherapist focused on healing and
strengthening the body-mind-spirit connection.
This background continues to inspire her artwork and teaching.
Amy is relatively new at the business of fiber art, but has been creating stitched work all her life.
As a Strickler scholarship recipient, she has been exploring the process of developing a website.
She will share her artwork and discuss what she has learned.
Jennifer will demonstrate her process of preparing paper for spinning and then handspinning
the long paper lengths on a drop spindle.
Jennifer will bring demonstration spindles.
Bring a lace-weight top whorl spindle if you like.
A handout will be provided.
Please bring a 12'X18" rotary mat, X-acto knife, 18" metal ruler (preferably cork-backed),
clear plastic quilter's-style ruler and pencil.
Extras will be available for those who don't already have these.
Drop spindle experience helpful but not necessary.
Registration is required. Registration forms are in the February Beat.
Diane Fabeck is an experienced weaver and quilter from Manitou Springs.
She has lectured and taught extensively on several fiber techniques, skilled research being a strong component.
She has been a seminar leader at Convergence and active in Complex Weavers.
She is particularly interest in "Stephengraphs", small silk pictorials of Coventry, England
woven on ribbon looms with a Jacquard mechanism.
The history, looms and weave structures of Paisley Shawls is another keen interest.
Sharon Costello is an accomplished fiber artist who has worked in hand-spinning, weaving, and knitting as well
as having raised her own flock of naturally colored sheep.
Once she discovered feltmaking, however, it quickly came to dominate her fiber fixation.
These days, Sharon's work focuses on soft-sculpture dolls and one of a kind and limited-edition
wearable art... hats, jackets, bags, boots, etc.
She has also completed special works for clients such as Celestial Seasonings Teas (a tea cozy inspired by their line of teas).
She has studied modern and ancient feltmaking techniques both in the US and in Turkey.
Visit her website at: http://www.blacksheepdesigns.com/.
The workshop is full.
If you are interested in being on the waitlist, please contact Margaret Tullis.
Note: HGB and Shuttles Spindles and Skeins are co-sponsoring Sharon Costello's visit in April.
Sharon will also give a 3-day workshop at Shuttles, Vessels and Masks, April 10, 11, 12.
Contact Shuttles for more info.
Nancy Finn is the owner of Chasing Rainbows Dyeworks in Willits, CA,
where she dyes natural fibers in a rainbow of colors.
Nancy has an amazing sense of color, and her colorways are vibrant and sophisticated.
Nancy has enjoyed a fascination with all things fabric from a very young age.
Sewing and weaving since childhood, she graduated from college with a B.A. in Textiles and Clothing.
When she moved from the San Francisco Bay area to Willits in northern California,
it was to become involved with fiber animals especially angora rabbits and alpacas.
Her custom dyeing and selling yarns and rovings at conferences and fairs evolved into "Chasing Rainbows."
Nancy and her dyers work in a especially renovated studio surrounded with the pastures and forest.
She is active in several wool festivals and has developed a teaching strategy to systematically create
around eighty colors for reference and a very complete color wheel.
Nancy present guild programs on color theory and a dye workshop through Shuttles Spindles and Skeins.
Contact Shuttles for more info.
Visit her website at: http://www.lambtown.com/finn.html.
November
Day Guild (Monday the 10th)
Margaret Roach Wheeler -- Life with Summer/Winter, a Weaver’s Biography
Evening Guild (Tuesday the 11th)
Margaret Roach Wheeler -- Adena Woman, The Mound Builders Culture
Workshop (Friday thrugh Sunday: 7th through the 9th)
Margaret Roach Wheeler -- Designing the Mahotan Way
Author Lecture and Reception
Dr. Elizabeth Wayland Barber -- The Mummies of Chinese Turkestan
December
Day Guild (Monday the 8th)
Fashion Show and Luncheon
Evening Guild (Tuesday the 16th)
Christmas Potluck and Ornament Exchange
January
Day Guild (Monday the 12th) and Evening Guild (Tuesday the 13th)
Jennifer Falck Linssen - Contemporary Katagami Vessels
February
Day Guild (Monday the 9th)
Carol Watkins
Evening Guild (Tuesday the 10th)
Amy Mundinger
Workshop (Monday the 9th, 1:30 -- 3:00 pm)
Jennifer Falck Linsson -- Shifu, the Japanese Art of Paper Spinning
March
Day Guild (Monday the 9th)
Diane Fabeck -- Stephensgraphs, the Ultimate Woven Miniatures
Evening Guild (Tuesday the 10th)
Diane Fabeck -- Kashmir & Euraopean Shawls of Paisley Design
April
Day Guild (Monday the 13th) and Night Guild (Tuesday the 14th)
Sharon Costello – A Feltmaker's Journey...25 years and Counting!
Evening Guild (Tuesday the 14th)
Sharon Costello -- Needle Felting
Workshop (Tuesday the 14th, 9:30 - 4:00 pm)
Sharon Costello -- Nuno Felting
May
Day guild (Monday the 11th) and Evening Guild (Tuesday the 12th)
Nancy Finn of Chasing Rainbows Dyeworks -- Working Your Way Around the Color Wheel