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Polly Jacobs-Giacchina at Loom and Shuttle

Penny Peters — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:27:18 +0000

On Saturday, Feb 4, Polly Jacobs-Giacchina will speak at Loom and Shuttle Guild in San Francisco. Polly is a fiber artist from Southern California whose passion is textiles in sculptural form using hand weaving techniques. She continually uses shape and structure to through her twined sculptures and wall hangings. Her work is shown in galleries and museums in juriend and invitational exhibits. She has been published in Fiber Arts Magazine, American Craft, Craft Arts International, Basketry Traditions and Beyond and 500 Baskets. Explore her work at http://www.pollyjgfiberart.com

Loom and Shuttle Guild meets at St. John’s Church in San Francisco, 501 Laguan Honda Blvd. There is a business meeting at 10AM followed by the talk at 11AM.

Sheila O’Hara, Saturday, Oct 1

Penny Peters — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 19:06:48 +0000

Loom and Shuttle Guild will host Sheila O’Hara on Saturday, Oct 1 in San Francisco. Sheila will share her experiences developing her unique weaving structures of early works as well as her more recent explorations in jacquard weaving. Additionally, she has done consulting in Egypt, was an invited participant at the Lisio Foundation symposium in Florence, has numerous publications to her name, and her work has been shown internationally, a truly diverse career. More information about Sheila can be found a www.sheilaohara.com and www.edwardcurtistapestry.com.

8 Shafts, 10 Treadles, so many ways to do DoubleWeave!

Penny Peters — Fri, 20 May 2011 00:21:01 +0000

Pat Stewart will give a slide program sharing her approach to designing block double weave on 8 shafts, from ideas on how to design profile drafts to techniques for visualizing thread by thread drafts. Included will be a technique for weaving 3 or 4-treadling block drafts (which usually requires 12 or 16 treadles) on no more than 10 treadles (with no more than 2 treadles pressed simultaneously and no retying of treadles). Besides extensive handouts, Pat will make available a couple dozen profile drafts and several full drafts of her 8-shaft weavings as WIF drafts, which any weaving program can open and manipulate.

June 4th, 11 AM, (business meeting at 10)

St. John’s United Church of Christ, 501 Laguna Honda Blvd., San Francisco, CA 94124

Martha Stanley Workshops in Berkeley

Penny Peters — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:01:42 +0000

Loom and Shuttle Guild will be sponsoring Martha Stanley for a series of four one day workshops over the next year. The focus of the workshops is the reproducing of the ancient Anasazi sandal. These sandals are admired for their beautiful symmetical designs as well as the sophisticated weaving structures used to make them. Space is extremely limited. If you are interested please contact Penny Peters pennyjanepeters coordinator for the workshops.

This rug was made using some of the twining techniques Martha unraveled while studying the Anasazi sandals. The rug was shown at CNCH 2008 in Sacramento.