April 2021
Diablo Weavers Guild, based in Walnut Creek CA, will be meeting via Zoom on the third of Friday of the month through June 2021, 10:00 am until noon or a little later. We do not meet in July and August.
Membership:
Dues for the year, September 2020 - June 2021, are $30 per person; $40 per family.
If joining after January, dues are $15.
New members and guests are welcome. Let us know if you would like to attend a meeting and we will send you the link to join the Zoom meeting.Contact: carol.gray@gmail.com
Diablo Weavers Meeting Friday, April 16, 2021
Our April meeting will be at 10 am on Friday, April 16, the third Friday of the month. You will receive an email Zoom invite before then.
Program
Simply Stripes: Essential Patterns for Woven Cloth
with Cameron Taylor-Brown
Stripes have been an integral part of textile design throughout human history. View woven samples and images from Cameron’s own collection as well as from the Cooper Hewitt in New York, the Textile Museum in Washington D.C, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Nuno, Lena Rahoult and many others. Examine design elements of color, texture, weave and proportion in stripes, and see how these concepts can be explored in quick compositions with yarns, pastels and colored paper. Discuss how these “sketches” could be translated into woven cloth.
Cameron Taylor-Brown was introduced to textiles by artist Ed Rossbach at the University of California, Berkeley. She studied textile design at the Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science, where she subsequently taught design and weaving. Since 1985, she has lived in Los Angeles where she is active in arts and education, and runs ARTSgarage, a textile resource center. Her work is widely exhibited and has been featured in Fiber Art Now, American Craft, Handwoven, Heddlecraft and Shuttle, Spindle and Dyepot. Cameron teaches workshops at ARTSgarage and at schools, guilds, museums and conferences throughout the United States and Canada. She is a past president of California Fibers and serves on the advisory boards of the Fowler Textile Council and Textile Arts Los Angeles. In 2019, she curated the critically acclaimed exhibit Material Meaning: A Living Legacy of Anni Albers at the Craft in America Center in Los Angeles.
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Sharing at our monthly meetings
Each month for sharing, photos for Diablo should be sent to Vilija by noon on the Thursday before each meeting. That gives her enough time to get the last minute ones in. The sooner, the better for her. However, she said that she can definitely handle “last minute”.
If members have a preference on how they want their pics shown, they should include info on that.
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Links from sharing at April's Meeing
In addition to sharing our member's current projects, Vilija had several interesting sites she found related to pot holder weaving and to repurposing both old garments and textile waste.
Crispina Ffrench's website:
Solmate Socks from preconsumer textile waste:
Cotton Loopers for Pot Holders:
http://www.homesteadweaver.com/
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Also at the April meeting, Aiko mentioned that her daughter, Mari, is doing a fundraiser for Guatemalan Weavers. See the link below for the fundraiser, and a link to her website, Kakaw Designs, for more information.
Looking Ahead
Our May meeting will feature a presentation by Denise Kovnat. See her website below and samples of her work on Instagram.
https://www.instagram.com/denisekovnat/
CNCH Conferenece in 2022
CNCH 2022
When: May 19-22, 2022
Where: San Mateo Marriott San Francisco Airport
Rates: Special rates for CNCH:
$149 (one king bed)
$169 (two queen beds)
Free parking
Free wifi if you join “Marriott Bonvoy” (no charge to create a membership
Diablo Weavers Study Group
STUDY GROUP
We will meet on June 25th at 10:00 am. Maybe ZOOM, maybe in person with appropriate Covid precautions (right now we only have one unvaccinated member). We will discuss our weavings inspired by Elisabeth Hill’s “Off the Grid” presentation. We have agreed that it is time to choose a new topic so we will bring in our hopes and wishes and come to a consensus on the new topic. Then we’ll come back three months later to do an in-depth show-and-tell. We learn a lot from each other. Some topics only last one or two meetings, some last longer.
If you are interested in joining us, email me at maureencmiller@comcast.net and I’ll add you to the mailing list. If you are currently on list and wish to be removed just let me know.
For Sale
Beautiful Handmade Birdseye loom for Sale
Possibly made in the 30's of beautiful Birds Eye Maple wood and in climate controlled storage. See photos below.
From the owners of the loom:
We have a loom that was built by my kids great grand father, that is, hand built. The wood is of rare Bird's Eye Maple (maybe from the 30's?)
From what I can gather it is a "double action' loom & please correct about my nomenclature.
We would like to sell it if possible. If not the wood is so precious that I can find other uses. It is currently in climate controlled storage.
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Thank you.
Mike & Aimee Prisbylla
Contact:
Mike & Aimee Prisbylla
(925) 682-1407
mprisbylla@comcast.net
Click on individual photos for larger view.
Stool: 9" wide & 22&1/2" high at the center. About a 1" slope (i/2" each from each side of the center).
Loom: Closed depth 18", 52 & 1/2" tall, width 42 & 1/2;
Open depth 36", 48 tall
Reed 36" (width 42 & 1/2") I think #156 has a full shot of plus 4 slats.
