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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGEThanks to all who participated in the

sale, our very successful sale.The abundant variety of articles

presented illustrates just how versatile handweaving and handweavers are. From garments to pincushions and everthing inbetween, there was something for anyone interested in purchasing some-thing handwoven. It was inspiring to see such diversity of patterns, fibers, colors and textures in every catagory of items entered in the sale. Well done everyone and thanks again.Our next meeting is Dec 4th, and it is

our annual Holiday Pot Luck. Bring your own plate and silverware and a dish to share if you’d like. See you all then.So remember..............it doesn’t take a

village just the participation of our guild members to assure our continuing success!!! Thanks everyoneBarb

www.seattleweaversguild.com November - December 2014

November 20th10 – 12pm Board Meeting

December 4thGeneral Meeting9 – 10am Library

10 – 11am Business/HotL11 – noon Program

12 – 1pm Library/Lunch1 – 2pm PM Program

December 26thDeadline for January Bulletin

Dolores Ranhofer, [email protected]

Speaker Bio on page 2

DECEMBER PROGRAMSPEAKER: Jan Paul

Morning Program: Saganishiki — The Art of Japanese Paper WeavingSaganishiki weaving is the most recent and

according to many the most beautiful of the Japanese National Arts. The technique is less than 200 years old and involves weav-ing on finely cut metallic or lacquered paper warps with fine silk wefts. This program will cover the history and uses, both old and current. The technique of weaving by hand on a special loom will also be shown. This is the only loom you glue the warp to the loom and if you break a warp, you mend it with scotch tape.Jan began weaving in 1972 as part of her

BFA studies at the University of Idaho. After

graduation and moving to the Seattle area she joined SWG in January 1974. Over the years she has developed two specialties, Renaissance style velvet (3 studies in Italy, 2 of them residencies), and Saganishiki, after taking a class at Conver-gence in San Jose, CA in 1990. She has demonstrated at the Seattle Cherry Blos-som Festival and Aki Matsuri (Japanese Fall

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Festival) for 20 years. She has lectured twice in Japan on the state of Saganishiki in North America. She has held many guild positions including president in 1985. She is a former ANWG treasurer and HGA Representative for Washington state. She currently is SWG mentor, on the Library Advisory Committee and chair of the linens department for the fall sale.

SPEAKER: Marilyn RomatkaAfternoon Program: Baumschmuck ‘Tree Jewelry’ — Hands On

In Bavaria and Austria, a charming folk art is prepared for the Tannenbaum; decora-tions of wood, seeds, spices, beads and ribbon in geometric arrangements. These hand-made treasures are natural and organic, easy enough for children and a great gift idea. All materials and inspiration will be provided.

Marilyn began her professional life in biochemistry, but Life side-tracked that. Later, when the family bought a pack llama that gave bags of fleece, she found her second passion. She was started down the Yellow-Brick Road into weaving.

Her science background gives her a clear, sequential teaching style; her passion for fiber-arts gives her class zing. She is an active member of our guild, and has taught a number of classes for guilds and conferences around the country.

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JANUARY PROGRAMSPEAKER: Madelyn van der HoogtMorning Program: On the Shoulders of Giants

Madelyn traces our weaving history, paying homage to the weavers who have made our world so rich. Along with inspiring images and personal stories, she gives her view of where we’ve been and where we’re going.

Afternoon Program: Tips and Tricks for Weavers

Madelyn shares her tips and tricks from over thirty years of weaving and teaching weavers—including warping aids, how to achieve even selvedges, helpful warping and weaving shortcuts, and more. Be sure, also, to bring your questions to Ask Madelyn.

2014 Annual SaleOn November 23rd, 72 weavers brought

in over 7400 items to be offered for sale at the 2014 Seattle Weavers Guild Sale. A mere two and a half days later, just over 2400 had found new homes--about 33% of the inventory gone in a very short time! Congratulations to all the weavers who contributed time, both weaving and work-ing, to make the sale successful! Job well done!Total sales after sales tax was almost

$81,000 contributing close to $10,000 to the Guild after deducting sale expenses. There were many beautifully crafted

items in every department. The depart-ment with the highest sales, accounting for 25% of total sales, was the Scarves de-partment, followed by Linens at 16% and

Garments with 10%. Two new policies were implemented at

the 2014 sale and will be evaluated by the Board. Member comment is appreciated and should be directed to the member-at-large, Sue Willingham. First was a requirement that those wish-

ing to work off 10% of the Guild’s normal 35% commission should contribute 8 hours to the functioning of the sale. Some chose to do so by helping with publicity, distrib-uting postcards and bookmarks prior to the sale. Others worked on the sales floor for the required hours. For the first time the hours spent in set-up and take-down were officially counted toward work in lieu of paid commission. Second was a revision to the guidelines

for jewelry. Only items which had at least one handmade component were accepted

Madelyn van der Hoogt first learned to weave on a backstrap loom in Guate-mala. From that introduction grew a passion for tex-tiles, weaving, and looms. She was editor of Weaver’s magazine from 1986 to 1999 and Handwoven from 1999 to 2012. She is the author of The Complete

Book of Drafting, editor of the Best of Weaver’s Series, and workshop instructor in five videos, Warping Your Loom, Weaving Well, Block Weaves, Lace Weaves, and Overshot. Madelyn teaches weaving at The Weavers’ School in Coupeville, Wash-ington, and presents work-shops world-wide.

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in that department. Nonetheless there was an abundance of interesting jewelry and the department sold over $4,000 of mer-chandise.Huge thanks to all department heads and

to all who created goods or worked at the sale. In the age of Etsy and other on-line outlets for hand crafted goods, our sale

is unique in giving the public access to both wonderful handcrafted items and to the folks who made them --standing right there to provide a personal connection!The usual analysis will follow in the next

bulletin.

Judith Noble and Abbie DuFrayne, 2014 Sale Co-chairs

WorkshopsTo read a full description of the planned workshops, please look at the October 2014

bulletin or go to the workshops webpage (http://www.seattleweaversguild.com/work-shops.asp).

Open slots as of Oct 26, 2014:

Month Instructor Max no. of students Signed up Deposit PaidJanuary Madelyn van der Hoogt 20 15 14February Tien Chiu 15 4 3March Dianne Totten 20 9 8 April Daryl Lancaster 20 19 16May John Marshall 16 3 3

Both Madelyn van der Hoogt’s and Daryl Lancaster’s workshop are a go as there are a sufficient number of paid deposits.

Do not despair if your workshop is not yet a go, we still have time before the workshop season officially kicks off to get more members signed up. Remember that there are workshop scholarships available for SWG workshops. Contact Patrice Riordan about the scholarships if you need more information.

These weavings formed the walls in the eleva-tors of the Rhine Cruise Ship that Mary Alice Hack vacationed on. Lucky for us Mary Alice is a weaver and took these pictures.

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The Color ThasaurusMora Jackson suggested the following

article would be interesting to the SWG Members and she certainly was right. The author was contacted, gave the okay and here is the article. The author is Ingrid Sundberg who is a

Young Adult (YA) writer and children’s book illustrator. Her debut YA novel ALL WE LEFT BEHIND comes out in Fall 2015 with Si-mon Pulse. She has an MFA in writing for children and young adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and an MFA in screen-writing from Chapman University. “I’ve learned that we all have different

associations with color words,” Sundberg told Bored Panda. “For example the color sapphire is a light blue to me (since that’s the color of the sapphire on my engage-ment ring), but a sapphire can also be a very dark blue. I doubt there can be an

‘official color guide,’ as color is so subjec-tive.” Regardless of the subjectivity of color, however, Sundberg’s guide will help expand your descriptive vocabulary beyond green, red and blue. “There was no official color guide. This was something I made for myself based on color words I liked and the colors the words evoked for me. I use it all the time when I write. It really helps in revision as I try to make my work fresh and vibrant. My blog readers say they’ve been using the thesaurus in their writ-ing prcesses as well. I’ve learned that we all have different associations with color words. I’m currently working on a visual hair-color thesaurus and a visual emotions/facial expressions thesaurus. They’re really fun to make.”

Read on to see all of these colors’ names.www.sundbergstudio.com


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Can Anyone Guess who submitted this to the Bulletin?

The Museum of London's Sherlock Holmes Tweed

Inspired by our new Sherlock Holmes exhibition, the Museum of London have worked with Christys' Hats, Liberty London and Lovat Mill in Scotland

to create a brand new London tweed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svOCbNBH6fc

Playtime

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Gay Jensen invites SWG members and their guests to her Annual Holiday Show and Sale, December 6th and 7th from 10am-5pm. Gay will be exhibiting a wide variety of her woven and painted artworks and baskets, other mixed media artworks, collages, painted pillows, and note cards. The event takes place at Paul Lewing's Studio located at 105 N 200th St. in Shoreline. Former SWG member Kathy Dannerbeck will also be exhibiting her handcrafted sterling silver jewelry. Gay makes homemade Italian cookies for this fun event and hopes you'll come enjoy some!


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SWG October Bulletin BoardSWG Announcements

Thank you to everyone who helped out with the SWG Annual Sale! Overall, it was a great weekend and we could not have done it without each person’s contribution.

We had a few “lost and found” items left at the end that were locked in the properties room. I’ve reached out to some of you directly, but there are a coffee cup and gray um-

brella. If these are yours, you can claim these items at the next meeting.

Many thanks! Abbie

Address and Phone Changes: Jean Sullevin’s email: [email protected]

Jennifer Shuster-Clark’s Address: 9714 6th Ave NW, Seattle, WA 98117Molly Gerhard’s email: [email protected]

Kathleen Veit’s email: [email protected]

Scarf Donations for Seattle Children’s HospitalSeattle Children’s Hospital is always in need of scarves that are used by the Chap-

lains ministering to patients and families. Please consider donating any scarves for this program. Tax deduction forms are available. The scarves do not have to be woven, they can be knitted, crocheted, felted, quilted, basically any method as long as they are approximately 6-10 inches wide and 55-80 inches long. Beth Zim-merman and Mora Jackson will gladly collect any you donate.Happy weaving,Mora E.L. JacksonEducational Workshop Chair

Local AnnouncementsHi, weavers,Question #1: I loaned a little book on finishing techniques to someone several months ago but don’t remember who. Is it you?

Question #2: It’s time to apply to be on the 2014 winter Art Studio Tour. I hope we’ll have plenty of folks who would like to sell items in my studio again. The variety really draws people in! Please let me know if you can participate. You can have just a couple of items or many more. In exchange I ask that you (1) spend half a day helping to host, contributing some cookies or some kind of goodie, (2) pay the credit card service fees on your sales paid for by credit card (2.75%), and (3) contribute 5% of your sales to the $200 fee I pay to be on the tour. Also, if you have or can take a good quality picture of a piece of your work, I’d love to have someone else’s work in the brochure (we have two pictures). Let me know ASAP, please!Thanks,

Sue Willingham

Seattle Weavers Guild Workshops 2014-2015

Workshop: Lace WeavesInstructor: Madelyn van der HoogtWebsite: www.weaversschool.com Dates: Saturday January 24– Sunday January 25, 2015 (2 days) Loom requirement: 4-8 shaft table or floor loom Skill level: AllRound Robin: YesMaterial Fee: $10Estimated Cost: $125-$235Open to non-guild members: November 28, 2014Learn to design, draft, and weave huck lace and Atwater-Bronson lace for all types of fabrics: in silk at fine setts for delicate garments, scarves, and sheer curtains; in cotton at coarser setts for table linens and household items; and in wools (both fine and heavy) for shawls and throws. On the first day, students weave a sampler on a 4-shaft or 8-shaft loom in their choice of fiber. The samplers are then washed and critiqued. On the remaining days, students exchange looms in round-robin fashion to take home a library of samples in a variety of fibers and designs

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SWG NEW MEMBERS – OCTOBER, 2014

BUTLER, HOLLIE ph: 206-245-77422825 N.W. 71st St. c: 206-245-7742Seattle, WA 98117 [email protected]’s husband gave her weaving and spinning lessons for her 40th birthday present, and she is addicted. She is learning, and currently making “straight things” like shawls, wraps, wall hangings. She also has experience editing, writing, and website design.

NELSON, ANNE ph: 206-548-77713219 N.E. 118th St. c: 206-465-9096Seattle, WA 98125 [email protected] enjoys multi-media textile creation and fiber art, and she hopes to gain inspiration and education from the Guild. She also enjoys knitting, felting, crochet, batik, and rib-bon weaving.

RUSSELL, DAWN MICHELLE ph: 604-576-81015665 187th St. c:Surrey, B.C., CANADA V3S 7N3 [email protected] “heard we were a great group”, and is a weaver, dyer, and surface dsigner. She hopes to make it to some of our meetings. Her work experience was as a fundraiser and in P.R.

SWEETMAN, DIANE ph: P.O. Bo 13184 c: 206-617-2217Burton, WA 98013 (Vashon) [email protected] is clear what she wants – inspiration, education, and motivation from SWG. She loves color inspired by nature, and wants to make beautiful useful household items. She is a retired Spanish teacher and has a stash of yarns from her husband’s weaving en-deavors.

SWG RETURNING/RENEWING MEMBERS, October, 2014 McKINNON, COLLEEN ph: 2124 N.E. 80th St. c: 206-724-7547Seattle, WA 98115 [email protected] is rejoining SWG from 20 years ago, after raising children and working as a nurse. She is newly retired and ready to connect again. She likes useful fabric.

MIZUTA, VIVIAN ph: 206-466-29847510 45th Ave. S.W. c: 360-445-5518Seattle, WA 98136 [email protected] is rejoining SWG after moving to West Seattle. She is interested in forming a W. Seattle weaving group, and is willing to mentor a new weaver. She also spins.


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