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Events & Exhibitions

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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Conference of Northern California Handweavers (CNCH)
2023 Conference Information: August 3 – 6 in San Luis Obispo

This year’s meeting of the CNCH Liaisons was recently held via ZOOM rather than the usual luncheon at the site of the 2023 conference.
Please visit http://www.CNCH.org website, CNCH 2023 IN SAN LUIS OBISPO – CNCH to find a complete list of instructors as well as information about the campus housing and meal plans. There is also a brief slide presentation which will be available for guild viewing soon. Hopefully it will arrive in time for our March meeting.
NOTE: Because the Southern California Weaving Conference no longer exists, and this conference is being held at CNCH’s most southern city, there is a great interest in attending within guilds such as Santa Barbara. So, if you find a class you REALLY want to be in, do not hesitate to register. Registration opens APRIL 29.

Registration:
The early registration fee, for those registering between April 29 and June 10, will be $475 for those who belong to CNCH member guilds and $505 for those who do not belong to CNCH member guilds. Registration fees will increase by $30 for both categories after 5 p.m. on June 10. Every registrant will receive a ticket to a Friday night barbecue and a Saturday night reception, included in the cost of registration.

Housing:
Optional apartment-style housing will be available at the Poly Canyon Village on the Cal
Poly campus. The apartments include living room/common rooms and kitchen facilities in
addition to multiple bathrooms and bedrooms. The cost will be $395 per person for the three nights of Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. More information about the housing will be provided in the conference registration materials. To view the apartment-style housing, please visit Cal Poly’s website, but please note that the beds will be lowered for conference registrants: Poly Canyon Village Apartments – University Housing – Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.

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Black Sheep Handweavers Guild Exhibit at the Redwood City Main Library, March 1 – 31, 2023 – Jodi and Kitty created a great exhibit of loaned guild materials

                 
Main Library in Redwood City – 1044 Middlefield Road, RWC. The display will be up from March 1 through 31; Hours are M-Th 10am-9pm; F/Sa 10am-5pm; Sun 12pm-5pm

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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 José Museum of Quilts & Textiles
Quilt National 21, October 8, 2022 — April 16, 2023
Continuing in the Min and Porcella Galleries is the Quilt National 21 is a juried biennial
exhibition featuring the Best of Contemporary Quilts. Organized by The Dairy Barn Arts Center in Athens, Ohio, Quilt National showcases new works, all made within the previous two years from the show’s opening, selected by the jury of Nancy Bavor, Brigette Kopp, and Karen Schulz.
Quilt National offers the works of artists who take technology and techniques for fiber art above and beyond the ordinary.

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Inside Out: Seeing Through Clothing: An Online Exhibition
At once utilitarian and deeply expressive, clothing offers protection from external
conditions while extending our inner selves—our identities, desires and beliefs—to the surface of our bodies and beyond. This dynamic relationship between what is public and private, visible and invisible, is considered in Inside Out: Seeing Through Clothing, an exhibition that features the work of 11 artists who explore, expand, and challenge the boundary that clothing creates between our bodies and the world. Working in the fields of sculpture, photography, installation and textile art, these artists consider themes of transparency, openness, interiority and visibility to create objects that invite us in while reaching out. View the Exhibit at: https://www.sjquiltmuseum.org/digital-exhibitions

Exhibiting artists include Claudia Casarino, Reiko Fujii, Charlotte Kruk, Robin Lasser &
Adrienne Pao, Victoria May, Kate Mitchell, Laura Raboff, Beverly Rayner, Rose Sellery and Jean Shin.

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Weaving Voices Podcast
Weaving Voices is a Whetstone Radio Collective x Fibershed podcast that stitches textile
systems and traditions, economic philosophy, and climate science into a quilt of understanding.
Designed to transform our thinking and actions both as citizens and material culture makers and users.
Hosted by Fibershed Executive Director Rebecca Burgess, Weaving Voices tells the stories
of our textile culture. We learn from communities that have enduring textile recipes that have lasted for multiple millennia, a complete contrast to the current and contemporary system dependent on fossil carbon and volume-based production models.
If you wear clothes, you’ll want to tune into these stories about how the dominant narrative, imagery and trends try to tell us what is “appropriate” and good to wear. And how most of the time, this leaves out the voices, lives and daily realities of the people, animals and landscapes that make our clothing possible.
Descriptions of episodes to date, along with links for listening from the website, or
subscribing on Apple Podcasts or Spotify apps, along with transcripts, are found here:
https://fibershed.org/programs/education-advocacy/weaving-voices-podcast/

December 15, 2022 Holiday Party via Zoom, 7:00 p.m.

We will be holding our holiday party on December 15th on Zoom this year,
Meeting time 7 pm (usual time since we aren’t having a meal)
Our holiday party brings us together for social time, good cheer and reminders of our
common love of textiles.
We will be meeting on zoom for the health and safety of all. So put on something festive,
wear a holiday hat if you’d like, and join for a special session of Show and Tell.
Weaving and textiles are handmade and heartfelt. We welcome one and all to share a textile item that has a special meaning for them. Show us the piece and tell us about it. It could be Black Sheep Handweavers Guild December 2 2022 Newsletter
something you made, or something that a friend made, or something you acquired in a special place or at a special time.
When we share our textiles, we share of ourselves. We’re looking forward to getting to
know our weavings and the weavers through this holiday meeting.
There will also be some time after show and tell to do some catching up and sharing news.
Look for the link on the member calendar on our website: https://BlackSheepGuild.org Set
yourself a festive place-setting and raise a cup of cheer.

                                                                               

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Invitation for (Extra) Holiday Cheer!
Betsy Blosser and Diana Herr will be meeting in person on Monday evening, December 19th, for some holiday cheer at BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse, 2206 Bridgepoint Parkway, San Mateo.
We would love to have you join us. We will show up around 6:30 PM and depart around 9:00 PM. If you would like to share a drink or some food, or just some good company, please stop by.
The restaurant has a selection of main dishes and sandwiches, as well as alcoholic and nonalcoholic drinks. The main attraction, however, is a chance to be together. Hope to see you there!
(Let one of us know in advance of your plan to join us, and we will reserve a table.)

Past Events

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

Events nearby

February: Black Sheep exhibit at the Redwood City Library!

There’s a small show of items made by guild members at the Redwood City Library during the month of February. A big thank you to Carto for sharing his photos!

RWC Library, #BSHG, 2020

February 20-23: Stitches West in Santa Clara

Primarily a knitting conference, also includes classes on other fiber related crafts and plenty of opportunities to grow your stash.   https://www.knittinguniverse.com/West2020

March 21 and April 18: Farm Days at Deer Hollow Farm in Cupertino

Come tour the Deer Hollow Farm and meet the new lambs and kids! Admission benefits Deer Hollow Farm.  There’s often a local guild spinner or weaver there showing off our craft. http://deerhollowfarmfriends.org/events/

April 3-8 2020:  CNCH 2020 in Burlingame

Yearly conference for Northern California Weaving Guilds: tons of classes, vendors, and a whole convention center full of people who speak your language!  https://www.cnch.org/conferences/2020-burlingame/

April 25 2020: Homestead Days at Hidden Villa

Sheep Shearing, Sheep to Shawl demos, and so much more!  https://mailchi.mp/9ac5ec6ebacd/save-the-date-hidden-villas-homesteading-day

October 1-4 2020: in Dixon

Lambtown is a yearly sheep and wool show; activities include a  sheep to shawl competition, fleece judging, and two fabulous vendor halls. https://www.lambtown.org/