The Guild’s regular meeting will be held at Woodside Community Church parish hall on Woodside Road in Woodside. The site will be opened at 7 pm. Dinner reservations beforehand will be made at Buck’s Restaurant on Woodside Road at 5:30 pm. Everyone is welcome to come!  The program is scheduled 7:30-8:30 pm, followed by refreshments and a short business meeting.

Tracey Panek began work at Levi Strauss & Co. in June 2015, becoming Historian and Archivist after the retirement of the prior historian there who held the post for 25 years. Tracey had worked 14 years as historian of AAA of Northern California, Nevada and Utah, and at the now-named Verizon for several years, so she has many years of experience working with the public, answering questions, and lecturing on related topics, as well as providing necessary archival studies. Several Guild members heard her speak recently and asked that she be invited to speak at a Guild meeting.

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The Guild’s regular meeting will be held at Woodside Community Church parish hall on Woodside Road in Woodside. The site will be opened at 7 pm. Dinner reservations beforehand will be made at Buck’s Restaurant at 5:30 pm. and everyone is welcome to come.  The program is scheduled 7:30-8:30 pm, followed by refreshments and a short business meeting.

Our speaker will be Youngmin Lee, who will tell us about bojagi, which is Korean textile work. On her website at http://www.youngminlee.com she writes, “Bojagi occupies a prominent place in the daily life of Koreans of all classes. [Bojagi] were used to wrap or carry everything from precious ritual objects to everyday clothes and common household goods and also to cover foodstuffs from ritual offerings to dining tables and trays.”

She will also talk about maedub, which are traditional decorative knots.

Our regular meeting will be held on Feb. 25th – CHANGE FROM REGULAR SCHEDULE by an event scheduled by the church – at Woodside Community Church parish hall on Woodside Road in Woodside. The site will be opened at 7 pm. Dinner reservations beforehand will be made at Buck’s Restaurant at 5:30 pm. and everyone is welcome to come.  The program is scheduled 7:30-8:30 pm, followed by refreshments and a short business meeting.

Black Sheep Guild member Dorothy Thursby will be our presenter. She will discuss her internship with internationally known Peruvian tapestry artist Maximo Laura, and show us samples of her work. Dorothy is an art teacher at Gideon Hauser Jewish Community Day School and does not have a website, but you’ll find her teacher’s extensive work for sale at http://www.maximolaura.com including Flight of the Condor in the Andes:

and Detail 3 from Flight of the Condor in the Andes:

Susie has two websites with many pictures of her work, susietaylorportfolio.com and susietaylorart.com. She explains that her work “combines origami and weaving together to create a new woven form”. If you find this hard to imagine, do take a look at her website. She furnished pictures for our site’s announcement as well, to be found below. She says of her work that “discontinuous pleats are engineered, woven and incorporated into the ground cloth”.  When taken off the loom, the pleats become folded origami shapes without further intervention by the artist. Linen works best for her process, she finds.

Dinner reservations beforehand will be made at Buck’s Restaurant at 5:30 pm. Susie plans to come to that as well as to the meeting, and everyone is welcome to come, too. The meeting site at Woodside Community Church will open at 7 pm. The program is scheduled 7:30-8:30 pm, followed by refreshments and a short business meeting.  See you there!

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We’ll enjoy our traditional holiday potluck at our regular meeting in December. Please bring a potful or a tray full or a treat to share. The kitchen will open beforehand, but our planned arrival time is 6pm, with dinner beginning at 6:30 pm. We’ll meet at the usual location, the Parish Hall at Woodside Village Church, 3145 Woodside Road in Woodside.

Those who want to participate in the gift exchange are asked to bring something simple and fun for weavers, with a value no more than $15. We will return to our former practice of “gift stealing” – nothing personal intended, just fun.

Ginger Summit is a member of our Guild and founder of the new Felting interest group, but her interests have led in many directions and always as far as one can go. She says of her “gourd phase”: “What began as a craft interest quickly became a passion as I discovered unusual uses of gourds in marketplaces and museums around the world.” Her learnings resulted in a number of books such as “Making Gourd Dolls and Spirit Figures”, “Gourds and Fiber”, “Making Gourd Musical Instruments” and “The Complete Book of Gourd Crafts”. Recently she cleaned out her gourd holdings and products, but saved her favorites to show us and talk about, as well as her books (those noted above, and more!)

Our meeting site at Woodside Community Church parish hall is opened at 7:00 pm of setup and conversation. The program, which runs 7:30-8:30, is followed by refreshments and a short business meeting.  If you’d like to come to dinner at Buck’s Restaurant in Woodside Shopping Center, reservations will be made for 5:30 pm. Hope to see you there!