Our guest speaker, Anne Field teacher and author from New Zealand, will be sharing her tips and tricks with Dévoré. Dévoré is a technique we are familiar with when it is applied to velvet cloth. With handwoven and machine or hand knitted cloth made of both cellulose and other yarns, the cellulose content is dissolved in places leaving some transparent areas. Designs are made by stencils. Finished articles will be handled and discussed.

Devore Wrap

COLLAPSE WEAVE — THE MAGIC OF WOOL (2 Day Workshop):   In this workshop students will weave and finish several samples to gain an understanding of the structure of collapse weave. Students will bring their looms already warped. Samples will be woven and discussions on the relative values of active and passive yarns will lead to an understanding of why and when collapse happens. Students will then choose whether to continue sampling, or to weave a scarf.

Contact:  Gloria Miller glorsm

For more information, please check Anne’s website:  http://www.annefield.co.nz/anne.html

Collapse weave dress with wrap

SPINNING OTHER FIBERS (1 Day Workshop):  The fibers covered will be silk, alpaca and mohair. We will begin with observing and discussing the qualities of the fibers and compare those to the qualities we want in the spun yarn. Different preparation and spinning techniques, from worsted through to woolen will be taught to make the yarn reflect the look of the original fiber and the end use. Several different techniques can be used with each fiber, depending on the required appearance and end use. Small sample skeins will be spun and washed, then analyzed. On a 1 day workshop, already prepared fibers will be used, because of time restraints.

Contact:  Judy Dauberman judy.dauberman

For more information, please check Anne’s website:  http://www.annefield.co.nz/anne.html

Blacksheep member Ulla de Larios will be sharing her “exploration in cloth” with us.  Initially, her teen-age experiences with Flemish Tapestry set her on a course to find another way to create images on cloth.  Trying different techniques she settled on Warp and Weft Painting as the ultimate process for creating the pure color fields and the exciting borders that are inherent to this process as well as to Ikat*.  Ulla has an MFA in Textile Arts, shows her work widely, and has been published in Väv Magasinet.

Date: March 18, 2010

Time: 7:30 until 8:30 PM

Location: Woodside Village Church, Guild Hall, 3154 Woodside Road, Woodside, CA

*Note:  According to Wikipedia, Ikat, or Ikkat, is a style of weaving that uses a resist dyeing process similar to tie-dye on either the warp or weft before the threads are woven to create a pattern or design. A Double Ikat is when both the warp and the weft are tie-dyed before weaving.

Date:  February 18, 2010

Time: 7:30 until 8:30 PM

Location: Woodside Village Church, Guild Hall, 3154 Woodside Road, Woodside, CA

Anne Field Workshops      April 2010

FOR WEAVERS

COLLAPSE WEAVE — THE MAGIC OF WOOL (2 Day Workshop):   In this workshop students will weave and finish several samples to gain an understanding of the structure of collapse weave. Students will bring their looms already warped. Samples will be woven and discussions on the relative values of active and passive yarns will lead to an understanding of why and when collapse happens. Students will then choose whether to continue sampling, or to weave a scarf.

Contact:  Gloria Miller glorsm

FOR SPINNERS

SPINNING OTHER FIBERS (1 Day Workshop):  The fibers covered will be silk, alpaca and mohair. We will begin with observing and discussing the qualities of the fibers and compare those to the qualities we want in the spun yarn. Different preparation and spinning techniques, from worsted through to woolen will be taught to make the yarn reflect the look of the original fiber and the end use. Several different techniques can be used with each fiber, depending on the required appearance and end use. Small sample skeins will be spun and washed, then analyzed. On a 1 day workshop, already prepared fibers will be used, because of time restraints.

Contact:  Judy Dauberman judy.dauberman

For more information, please check Anne’s website:  http://www.annefield.co.nz/anne.html