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Past Events

Past Events

Textile Arts Council Lecture, Fashioning an Exhibition: How Textile Conservators
Prepare Christian Dior’s “Junon” for Display
10 a.m. June 17 – Saturday Lecture with Beth Szuhay,
Anne Getts and Laura Garcia-Vedrenne

The Textile Conservators for the Fine Arts Museums are responsible for the care of over
22,000 textiles which includes costumes, flat weaves, contemporary fiber art, pile carpets and tapestries. From the moment a textile enters the collection, conservators research and document major events in its life to create a narrative that informs the object’s treatment and preservation. Using Christian Dior’s evening gown Junon as a case study, this presentation will reveal what conservators do on a daily basis to preserve such treasures in the collection.
Presented In-Person *and* via Zoom
Koret Auditorium, de Young museum, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
In-Person Tickets: $5, sold at the door only \ free for TAC members
Virtual Tickets (Zoom): $5 Members of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and
Students. $10 General Admission \ free for TAC members. https://bit.ly/3ONet2g
Information about the presenters and the event is available at
https://www.textileartscouncil.org/post/fashioning-an-exhibition A recording will be available for two weeks following the

FiberShed : Ongoing East Bay Mending Bar June 17, 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.

Hosted by Elaine of KOSA Arts at “The Werkshack” in Oakland (25th street close to
Broadway. Buses and 5 block walk to Bart), each session will have a mending teacher with an area of mending expertise, but all mending welcome! RSVP to Elaine – ejhamblin [at] gmail [dot] com

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Textile Arts Council May Lecture 20
Embellished Art History, Julia Bryan-Wilson

Examining Filipina artist Pacita Abad, Brazilian embroiderer Madalena Santos Reinbolt,
and African American quilter Rosie Lee Tompkins, Julia Bryan-Wilson considers how
embellishment, particularly needlework, has served as a strategy for mother-taught artists
whose work frequently blurs the lines between function and décor. Though located in distinct geographies and rooted in different identifications, these three artists have much in common, and this talk takes seriously their decision to adorn the objects of domestic life. In doing so, Bryan-Wilson speculates about how their handcrafted practices open onto more expansive art histories.
Presented In-Person *and* Virtually via Zoom on Saturday, 5/20/23 10:00 am
Koret Auditorium, de Young museum, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. In-Person Tickets:
$5, sold at the door only \ free for TAC members

Virtual Tickets (Zoom): $5 Members of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and
Students. $10 General Admission \ free for TAC members.
Purchase Zoom Tickets : https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lecture-embellished-art-historieswith-julia-bryan-wilson-tickets-598102620037?aff=WS
Julia Bryan-Wilson is Professor of Art History and LGBTQ+ Studies at Columbia University
and Curator-at-Large at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo. She is an influential queer feminist art historian, critic, and curator who has organized exhibitions on women’s making before 1900, histories of dance, and monographic shows on Liz Collins, Louise Nevelson, and Cecilia Vicuña.
Her award-winning books include Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era
(2009), Fray: Art and Textile Politics (2017), and Louise Nevelson’s Sculpture: Drag, Color, Join, Face (2023). Some of Bryan-Wilson’s numerous accolades are a Guggenheim fellowship, grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Center for Advanced Study in Visual Arts, CAA’s Frank Jewett Mather Award, the Art Journal article award, the ASAP Book Prize, and the Robert Motherwell Award. She has also won multiple awards for her teaching and her mentorship.

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Fibershed Webinar : Designing for Resilient & Healthy Ecosystems in Our Region’
May 11 @ 6:00 pm – 7:15 pm

The following webinar is part of the Fibershed Speaker Series for our “Borrowed from the
Soil” Design Challenge. The event is free and open to all designers and the general public and registration is here at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/designing-for-resilient-healthyecosystems- in-our-region-webinar-tickets-616001124947
Are you a designer or textile producer who wants to better understand how you can
connect with regional fiber and dye producers to improve the ecosystem impact of your textile operations?
Do you want to learn more about how regional, nature fiber and dye farming systems can
benefit ecosystem health in measurable and tangible ways?
This webinar will cover an introduction to Climate Beneficial™ farming systems for wool
and cotton in California, including visions for a more resilient future for these fibers, and a
discussion about sourcing natural dyes for textile and garment production to improve ecosystem health.
Three industry experts will share their work and perspectives: Lani Estill (rancher and
artisan of Lani’s Lana), Lauren Tucker, and Kathy Hattori (of Botanical Colors).
Moderated by Heather Podoll of Fibershed.

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Treadles to Threads Spinning Guild invites you to our new Fiber Frolic

(formerly known as Spinning at the Winery)

Saturday, May 27, 2023

10 am – 4 pm

at Soul Food Farm

6046 Pleasants Valley Rd., Vacaville, CA 95688.

Spend the day spinning, shopping, and visiting with your fiber friends.

Featuring  California vendors with goodies from raw fiber to finished yarn, fiber related items, and a dynamite raffle that will be utterly enticing.

Want someone else to process your newly purchased fleece or have unprocessed fleece at home?  Morro Fleece Works will be at the event.

Bring your wheel, drop spindle or fiber related project, along with a chair, lunch, and beverage for a truly enjoyable day.

We will have awesome raffle items!  

Here is the list of Vendors for the event. Updated list will be posted on Instagram.

Peggy Agnew    Red Creek Farm           
Jackie Post                             Sheep to Shop
Colleen Simons Fiber Confections
Mike & Donna Dachuk Black Diamond alpacas 
Benda Collins Pan’s Garden Yarn and Fibers                 
Erin Macean  Bungalow Farm Angoras                 
Shari McKelvy Morro Fleece Works   
Bev Fleming Ewe and Me 2 Ranch 
Elissavet Livitsanos Wonderland Dyeworks 
Anna Harvey Harvey Farms
Lisa Carver Sew Long Marianne
Anna Yurutucu Great Buttons
Marcail McWilliams *tentative Valley Oak Wool Mill
Roger and Mary *tentative Dream Goat Design Studio 
Brooke Sinnes *tentative Sincere sheep

Admission: $10 per person.  

Contact: T2TFiberFrolic at gmail.com  

Follow us  @ fiberfrolicfestival for all event updates.

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Conversations with Cloth, Series 4: Stories of Wool, Felt
First Thursdays, Feb. – May, 2023
On the first Thursdays of February through May 2023, at 15:00 PST, and from Japan on
Friday at 8:00 JST.
This series will feature Jorie Johnson–wool and felt specialist, artist, and researcher–from
Kyoto, Japan. Jorie has been on the research team for the ancient Japanese Imperial felt rugs that are colorful and intricately patterned and are housed in the Shosoin Repository in Nara, Japan.

World Shibori Network Foundation brings you the research, stories, knowledge, and tools
from artisans and artists around the globe and, specifically, the makers themselves to inform and inspire your creative practices. So that the art, material knowledge, tools, and methods of people who came before us are not lost. So we may reimagine and build a sustainable future in a continuum for today.
For more information and to register, please visit: https://shibori.org/event/conversationswith-cloth-series-4-stories-of-wool-felt-journey-1-of-4/

Jorie Johnson work: Stories of Wool, Felt

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San Mateo County Fabric, Thread, & Woven Group
Textile Art Exhibition: Call for Entries

Fabric, Thread & Woven showcases and celebrates the strong community of local artists
working in the textile and fiber art mediums.
This is a juried exhibition in the San Mateo County Government Center Caldwell Gallery
presenting a distinct approach to innovative and traditional fiber and textile techniques, and a contemporary concept for the use of traditional and unusual materials.

The chosen work invites the viewer to experience the many facets of fiber and textile art. Accepting both two and three-dimensional wall hung pieces, including wearable art.

In 2022 the San Mateo County Office of Arts and Culture is giving special consideration to
environmental and social issues. Works that address this theme are encouraged but not required to enter or for selection into the exhibit.
A first place $100 award, a second place $50 award, and a third place $50 award will be
determined by jury.

Fabric, Thread & Woven is co-curated by Laura McHugh and Shawna Vesco Ahern
Show Dates: March 1, 2023-April 28, 2023

Exhibit Location: Caldwell Gallery, Main Floor, 400 County Center, Redwood City; Free
and Open to the public Monday – Friday 8:00am-5:00pm
Submissions are due no later than January 20, 2023.

Eligibility (living in or employed by the County of San Mateo), applications, and all detailed information is at the event website: https://www.smcgov.org/ceo/fabric-thread-woven-group-textile-art-exhibition

 

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Holiday Shows: Dotty Calabrese, Just for Fun

Handweaving & Polymer Clay by Dotty Calabrese
December 3-4 – KPFA Holiday Fair – Sat/Sun 10:00 – 5:00
Alameda County Fairgrounds, Building A, 4501 Pleasanton Ave. Pleasanton – Booth #705
$12 adult admission – $10 seniors, disabled – under 18 free
Email dottycala [at] aol [dot] com for free admission to this Fair.

December 9-11 – The Artifactory Holiday Fair
1190 Hopkins Ave. Palo Alto, CA – F/Sat/Sun 10:00 – 5:00 http://www.artifactoryholidayfair.com/

December 16-17 – Dotty’s Holiday Open Studio,
2465 Richard Ct., Mountain View 94043 – F/Sat 11:00 – 4:00

 

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Textile Arts Council

The next Textile Arts Council talk will be in February; meanwhile, you can explore the
exhibitions, Lectures, events, and resources of the Textile Arts Council of the Fine Arts
Museums of San Francisco at https://www.textileartscouncil.org/about-tav

Zoom Guild Meeting, Thursday, November 17th

Past Programs

Please note the meeting will begin at 6:30 due to our presenter being on the East Coast

Karen Donde  https://karendondehandwovens.com/home.html

Turned Beiderwand: One Threading, Multiple Structures

Although the history of the weave structure known as Beiderwand predates even its name, Beiderwand remains a powerful tool for creating contemporary designs. When the traditional draft is turned, converting the customary supplementary weft to a supplementary warp, that power expands exponentially. This lecture will explore Beiderwand history and traditional drafting and design characteristics, then illustrate the exciting results of turning that draft, results that extend well beyond faster, one-shuttle weaving. Join Karen to discover the hidden potential of a Turned Beiderwand draft.

Karen Donde weaves garments, fashion accessories and home textiles for sale and teaches beginning-advanced weaving classes and assorted workshops for guilds and conferences. Teaching credits include HGA’s Convergence 2012, 2014 and 2016 and 2022 (postponed from 2020), Southeast Fiber Forum, the Mid-Atlantic Fiber Association’s Workshop Weekend, Midwest Weavers Conference, Intermountain Weavers Guild Conference and Florida Tropical Weavers Conference. In Asheville, NC, she has taught at Sutherland Handweaving Studio, Friends & Fiberworks, Local Cloth and her own studio.

Karen is a juried member of the Southern Highland Craft Guild and graduated in May 2013 from Haywood Community College’s Professional Crafts-Fiber program. An experienced and award-winning writer with a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri, Donde now writes for and about weavers. She is a contributor to Handwoven magazine and other allied publications.

Please note the meeting will begin at 6:30 due to our presenter being on the East Coast

Show and Tell, October 2022

Show and Tell

Stefanie S

Napkins for my Daughter’s Wedding

My daughter is getting married in November and requested 30 napkins in the wedding’s color scheme “Wisteria”.

This is 22/2 Cottoline, 420 warp threads in two warps, 8.4 yd each. It is a plain weave with the pattern being a point twill with 4 threads of white and one gold thread between the two patterns. All napkins were machine-sewn, washed and ironed;  there was about 10 % shrinkage, which I accounted for in the initial width and length.

A fun project, although I am now ready to weave something else for a change.

Johanna G

First of 2 pieces from same cotton 10/2 warp from Lunatic Fringe.

Baby blanket for newborn grandchild Luca.  It is a 4 shaft waffle weave that shrunk considerably but is soft and light.

Second pieces is the same warp with a rose path pattern that was turned into a tunic with flounce sleeves. I created the tunic for my Canada Sewing Course Principles of Design. It is warm but comfy!

Show and Tell, September 2022

Show and Tell

Ally 

Linen ikat with marigold, iron, and very faint Myrobalan

My latest ikat project let me practice some of the skills from the Natural Dye Workshop and get to know my newest loom. The ikat project I measured out 4 yards of linen warp and prepped it for dyeing.

The piece is made from natural linen. I used myrobalan as a tannin, dyed it with marigold (the yellow part), and then overdyed with iron. The marigold turned brown with the addition of iron. The myrobalan tannin faintly reacted to the iron, but much of the color difference disappeared after wet finishing.

It was a practice piece to get to know my “new” loom and to experiment with natural dyes and ikat. So mostly it was for experimentation, but I’ll probably sew something with it at some point.

Gudrun 

Kumihimo braid key fobs

These key fobs are a collection of braids in various colors and techniques, mostly cotton, some silk.

Can you spot the Lady Bug pattern, the blue-yellow flowers on a vine?

Most of them are Japanese Kongo Gumi braids made on a Kumihimo disk. The red, yellow, turquoise spirals have the nickname Laramie Braid and are derived from European straw-plaiting.

 

 

 

Show and Tell, August 2022

Show and Tell

Barbara 

Quick update on three new exhibits that I want to share with you in a timely manner.
Pulp: Book and Paper Arts will feature my Faulty Towers: Night and Day, a plaited paper
sculptural pair made of shredded artist prints. Inspired by the SF Millennium Tower that is
sinking on its foundation, this work also refers to the many things that are faulty in our society today. If you look closely, you can see the faces of little children. It is for their sake that we need to fix our world. My work is featured on the postcard and on the website.
https://www.sebarts.org/exhibits The exhibit at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts runs from July 30 – September 4, 2022. This work just won first prize in the exhibit at the opening July 30th. Nice surprise for me.

Faulty Towers: Night and Day, 2020, plaited shredded artist prints.

Traditions Evolve is sponsored by the Northern California Chapter of Surface Design and will include a sculptural basket from my newest series Welcome Pineapple 236. The exotic
pineapple was a symbol of welcome in wealthy homes in Europe and the Colonies. My work acknowledges the human capital of colonization that made the display of this luscious fruit possible. The form is built with 236 plaited cane flower knots on a hemp leaf plaited base.

Welcome Pineapple 236, 2022, flower knot plaiting in dyed cane on a hemp leaf plaited base, twined top pieces

The exhibit will soon be available on the Surface Design website.https://www.surfacedesign.org/events-exhibits/exhibits/
Every 1 is an inclusive exhibit sponsored by the National Basketry Organization.

My Welcome Pineapple 236 will also be featured here. You can view it online at the NBO website after the opening reveal at NBO’s conference Virtually Woven 2022: Crossing Boundaries July 28 to 30, 2022. The exhibit will remain online until December 31, 2022, and it includes a large collection of the best of contemporary and traditional basketry being made today, one piece by each artist. It is worth taking time to peruse this site! https://nationalbasketry.org

I wish you all good health and much joy as you navigate the rest of summer 2022.—

Barbara

Archana 

Working on CNCH workshop project, Falling Stars pattern. I had a false start but on track
now.

Falling Stars pattern on the loom

Archana

Ange 

I’ve been wanting to try some rug weaving, so when my darling husband declared we needed a rug of a certain size and material, I browsed the library looking for inspiration and guidance. I settled on A Rug Weaver’s Sourcebook,  edited by Linda Ligon, and following directions in the book, wove this rep rug. I used 8/4 poly cotton rug warp sett at 30 EPI with 4 strands of mop cotton as the thick weft.  Those of you who have talked weaving with me recently are aware of the many issues I’ve had with it, but I’ve learned a lot and I love the rug. The book is a “compilation of weaving techniques”, and is more of a how-to book than a book of projects, and covers a number of techniques, with a lot of focus on weft faced and rag rugs. Especially helpful was advice on how to keep your loom from walking across the room! I want to try the card woven edges on my next rug; the appendix article by Martha Stanley clearly explains how it’s done; I’ve watched Gudrun demo this, but have not yet tried it myself.

— Ange Mirer, Guild Librarian