Our speaker for tonight, Adele Stafford, is a textile designer who specializes in weaving cloth from cotton that is grown and spun in the United States. She is also quite a writer, you’ll discover when you look at her really beautiful website at http://www.voicesofindustry.com. Voices of Industry is the name of her studio and shop in Oakland where she lives. She is weaving on an Ahrens Violette mechanical dobby loom which you can see behind her in the picture below.

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!

Sept. 17, 2015    Ginger Summit – Guild member, Spirit Dolls and musical instruments made from gourds

Oct. 15, 2015     Adele Stafford – Voices of Industry, professional weaver and promotor of organic cotton

Nov. 19, 2015    Susie Taylor – textile designer and complex weaver including “origami” style

Dec.  17, 2015    Holiday Party

Jan. 21, 2016     Youngmin Lee – Bojagi, the Korean Art of Wrapping Cloths

Feb. 25, 2016     Dorothy Thursby – Guild member, weaving in Peru, and tapestry

Mar. 17, 2016     Tracey Janek – Levi Jeans

Apr. 21, 2016      Michael Rohde –  textile design and tapestry

May 19, 2016     CNCH show and tell

June 16, 2016    End of season Show and Sale

At the July summer meeting, Kathleen will show parts of two videos. One hour will be devoted to Jennifer Moore on Doubleweave Basics, which will prime our pumps for the class on Doubleweave which she is teaching at the end of October.

The remainder of the meeting will be devoted to a video by Diane Totten on Woven Shibori, for those who might like a different inspiration.

The meeting will be held in our usual space, the Parish Hall at Woodside Community Church on Woodside Road in Woodside. We gather at 7 pm, please bring snacks if you have them, to give Melanie a break. The program begins at 7:30 pm. We do not intend to include a business meeting.

Jennifer Moore:

Dianne Totten:

This summer meeting features our Librarian, Ruth Temple, regaling us with fascinating yet little-known treasures in our own Library. She is taking this opportunity to create a virtual walk-through, and show us not only all the best books she can carry, but also a slide-show which reminds us of the “snazzy” books, special items and older but useful and inspirational magazines we have but can’t be brought to every meeting. There are also recent gifts from Ulla de Larios including hand-me-downs from the former Las Trampornas Guild.

Ruth hopes to put together for reference in the library web area, study guides, including relevant titles we have, of popular subjects such as dying, basic weaving, Inkle, complex braiding, and the like, which will improve our use of library holdings.

This meeting will be held in our usual location, the parish hall of Woodside Community Church on Woodside Rd. in Woodside. Dinner reservations will be made as usual for Buck’s Restaurant starting at 5:30 pm that evening. Y’all come to that as well! If you have a snack to share, please bring that as well, so we can give Melanie a summer break!

Russian-born Natasha Foucault has gained world-wide recognition for her luminous paintings on silk and wearable art. She has exhibited and sold her work both locally and internationally, including residential and corporate commissions. Her book, “Silk Diary”, contains more than 80 color plates featuring her colorful and unique work. She has a website at www.natashasilkart.com, and markets her many products for silk painting at www.jacquardproducts.com. She also has a YouTube video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft6FAZfTI6k.

Reservations will be made for dinner at Buck’s Restaurant, 362 Woodside Rd, beginning at 5:30pm. Please join us when you can. Our meeting location at The Woodside Village Church, 3154 Woodside Rd., will be opened by 7pm for gathering. The meeting and program begin at 7:30 pm. We break for refreshments about 8:30 pm, and finish with a brief business meeting. Do come!

At the meeting, Natasha had silk paintings to show us, as well as many beautiful garments.

Natasha also showed us multiple ways to wear her airy creations, which led to Guild members such as Linda trying them out.

Our Guild is one of the responsible participants in this year’s CNCH conference at Asilomar, April 9-12. As well as taking creative leadership in several areas, we also have the opportunity for fun and learning. This meeting, the first after the conference, we look forward to devoting extensive Show-and-Tell by guild members who tackled classes at this event, and of course whatever other show and tell items that guild members want to bring for our enjoyment.

Reservations will be made for dinner at Buck’s Restaurant, 362 Woodside Rd, beginning at 5:30pm. Please join us when you can. Our meeting location at The Woodside Village Church, 3154 Woodside Rd., will be opened by 7pm for gathering. The meeting and program begin at 7:30 pm. We break for refreshments about 8:30 pm, and finish with a brief business meeting. Do come!

Remember June 18, Election & Sale

Final Meeting of ’14-’15 Season

“An Overview of Overshot: What it is and Why it’s Worth a Visit”

Our program this month features our own and present President Barbie Paulsen. Her topic, complete with hands-on experience, is Overshot. She says the structure caught her eye when she was eight years old and first exposed to floor looms. “After decades of revisiting this versatile weave, it still hasn’t lost its charm”

In this program she will speak both to beginners and to more experienced weavers. She will touch on what overshot is, and how the weave structure is accomplished through the threading and the treading. She also shows how varied overshot can be, depending on the colors, fibers and density of the weave. Samples of overshot, from traditional coverlet to more intricate modern applications, will be available to see and touch.

As a bonus, she will bring a loom to the meeting, warped with an overshot pattern so that anyone who wants to can give it a whirl. It could be a surprise to see how easily complex patterns can be accomplished with just four shafts.

Dinner reservations will be made at Buck’s Restaurant on Woodside Road beginning at 5:30 pm before the meeting. All are welcome to attend, they are happy to expand our tables!  Our meeting location in the Parish Hall at Woodside Church is opened about 7 pm. The program starts at 7:30 and lasts about an hour, followed by refreshments, then Show-and-Tell and a brief business agenda.