Programs usually begin at 10:15 am, following a Guild business meeting and a sharing session among members. Our programs include a mixture of Guild Member Sharing Programs and Outside Speakers. For questions, contact Martha Stanley.

Meeting: Wednesday, September 12, 2007, 10:00 AM
Santa Cruz County Fair Grounds
Off Hwy. 152, Watsonville, CA

Inkle Weaving with Annie MacHale and County Fair Exhibit

Inkle weaving is Annie's area of expertise and you won't want to miss seeing her work and hearing what she has to say about it. Annie will have a number of inkle looms set up for everyone to try their hand at this fascinating kind of narrow band weaving.

This is the first meeting of the new year of sharing and programs. Bring something you have made recently, enjoy the program, view the exhibit, and stay for lunch with other Guild members. Bring a project to work on and "hang around" after the meeting for as long as you like.

The Handspun/Handwoven display will be in the Porter Implement Shed in Yesterday's Farm, near the Codiga Museum where we will meet. We will be right in step with the theme with the barn wall and all of that old barn wood on the walls! It will be a wonderful backdrop for the work of the talented fiber artists that abound in the Central Coast area. And of course we will have our cadre of intrepid spinners and weavers out front under the tent roof showing just how its done!

Meeting: Wednesday, October 10, 2007, 9:30 AM
Aptos Library Meeting Room

Sharing Meeting– Warping Your Loom: Back to Front / Front to Back, led by Martha Stanley, Ann Hamburg and Joan Vierra
This meeting will be a demonstration of two warping methods. There will be two Baby Wolf looms on site and the presenters will go through each method step-by-step, with plety of opportunity for questions. The advantages and disadvantages of each method will be discussed.

Bring any tools that you find useful when you warp, and be ready to share your tips with others. This is a chance to clarify your thinking about the warping methods yo use and why.

Meeting: Wednesday, November 14, 2007, 9:30 AM
Aptos Library Meeting Room

Outside Speaker – Deborah Corsini
A Weaver's Work, A Curator's Perspective

Deborah Corsini, weaver and textile artist for the past 30 years and currently curator at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, will share her work and thinking with us.

Corsini has pursued a life long passion and interest in weaving and textiles. Tapestry weaving had been her primary art, but her multi faceted artistic career has spanned a variety of pursuits. These include teaching weaving, owning a small hand crafted business, Woven Silks, in which she wove one-of-a-kind ikat silk scarves to working as the Creative Director and chief designer for a textile company designing fabrics for the quilt market. Currently, she is the curator at the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles and is experiencing the view from the other side of the art world.

She pursues her artistic career, creating wedge weave tapestries and showing her work in exhibitions nationally like ATB 6 and a solo exhibition, Byline: Linear Expression, at the Morris Graves Museum of Art in Eureka, CA. She recently sold three tapestries to U.S. Embassies in Sofia, Bulgaria and Astana, Kazakhstan. She is active in the textile community and currently serves as the president of Tapestry Weavers West.

Outside Speaker – Mary Dusenbury
Color and Dye in Ancient and Medieval Japan
After a many-year hiatus, Mary returns to Santa Cruz to give us a lecture which will trace the uses and meaning of color and the development of dye technology in Japan from the introduction of new dye materials and technology from the Continent beginning in the 6th C to the flowering of the dyers arts during the Heian period (794-1185).

Meeting: Wednesday, February 13, 2008, 9:30 AM
Aptos Library Meeting Room

Outside Speaker – Vicki Fraser

The California Rug Project and Its Triumphant Conclusion
Years ago, Vicki Fraser had a dream, a dream which had to be realized. After 12 years of spinning, dyeing and weaving, Vicki and collaborators have finished the weaving of this epic 5' × 15' knotted pile rug. She is currently at work on trimming the pile and the other parts of sprucing up the finished results, and will share from all aspects of the production of the rug. We will be privileged to see this rug while it is in the final stages of completion, while it still hums with the energy and promise of the weaving process, before it has finally become a fait accompli.

Meeting: Wednesday, March 12, 2008, 9:30 AM
Aptos Library Meeting Room

Guild Member – Nora Rogers
A Look at Her Weaving Ideas and Cloth
For the past 35+ years Nora Rogers has quietly done some very interesting weaving. Her primary focus has been on twining; but what eclectic, beautiful paths she has followed: prehistoric cardweaving of Northern Europe; the earliest examples of Peruvian spaced-weft twining and later examples by the Woodlands Indians of North America, for starters. Nora's work resonates with the curiosity of the researcher probing historical textiles' depths and then developing their legacies into personal expressions of a contemporary weaver.

GRAND Show-and-Tell, Preview of our CNCH Display and Knots
This is our first meeting in our new location: Aptos Village Park. We will celebrate this new location by having a GRAND Show-and-Tell. Those who have made things to display at this year's CNCH will show their work. We ask all to bring a textile to share. This may be recent work of your own. It might be a contemporary, historic, or ethnic textile which is special.

Anita Dyer and Gudrun Polak will present a preview of Area 1's display for CNCH in Sacramento in May. They will bring computers to demonstrate how computer-aided design can be used in weaving.

Martha Stanley will give a demonstration on knots for weavers.

Meeting: Wednesday, May 14, 2008, 9:30 AM
Aptos Village Park Meeting House

Guild Member Suzanne McLean: Egypt with the Fiberholic
Join Suzanne as she explores Egypt from a textile perspective. Through her slides, fabrics, jewelry, mats and garments, you will get a "feel" for current textile practices in Egypt as well as some insight into ancient creations. This fun program will also include a faux bazaar, instruction on headscarf wrapping, tips on bargaining and camel riding and evocative photos of the Egyptian people, their clothes, inspirational landscapes and sacred places.

Meeting: Wednesday, June 11, 2008, 9:30 AM
Martha Stanley's Home

Sharing Meeting: Indigo Dyers' Study Group, Swap Meet and Annual Potluck.
The indigo dyers' group will have several different dye vats going, for protein fibers (wool, silk) and for cellulose fibers (cotton, ramie, tencel, bast). Bring small skeins or fabric to dye. It will be interesting and great fun to see the results. Plan to contribute $1 for each piece you want to dye. This will cover the expense of the indigo. If you have them, bring rubber gloves and aprons, and wear old clothes.

To celebrate this indigo adventure and the end of the year we'll join for a potluck lunch afterwards.

This is also the meeting where we bring yarn, books and equipment for sale or exchange. We all have things that are gathering dust – bring them and go home with someone else's dust gatherer!