Meetings are held on the 3rd Saturday of every month at the Granite Peak Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 882 Sunset Ave., Prescott, AZ, just two blocks behind the True Value on Miller Valley Rd. Our meetings begin at 9:00 a.m. with a business meeting, followed by social time and then the program at 10:30 a.m.
Since the advent of Covid-19, our monthly meetings are available either in person at Granite Peak Unitarian Universalist Congregation or via Zoom. Guests can attend up to two monthly meetings before being required to join the Guild. Although masks are not required at our in-person meetings, the CDC recommends wearing masks and maintaining social distancing when attending indoor events. If you would like to attend a monthly meeting via Zoom, please email us at info@mtnspinweave.org. The Zoom link is emailed to the members a few days before the meeting.
Since the advent of Covid-19, our monthly meetings are available either in person at Granite Peak Unitarian Universalist Congregation or via Zoom. Guests can attend up to two monthly meetings before being required to join the Guild. Although masks are not required at our in-person meetings, the CDC recommends wearing masks and maintaining social distancing when attending indoor events. If you would like to attend a monthly meeting via Zoom, please email us at info@mtnspinweave.org. The Zoom link is emailed to the members a few days before the meeting.
2022 MSWG Meeting Programs
January 15 How Textiles Changed the World, Virginia Postrel
Textiles are taken for granted today, but they are one of humanity’s oldest and most influential commodities. From Paleolithic flax to 3D knitting, the need for textiles has driven technology, business, politics, and culture. Drawing on her widely praised new book The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World, author Virginia Postrel will take us on a tour of some of the innovations – in fiber, spinning, weaving, and dyeing – that gave us today’s textile abundance and have shaped civilization as we know it. You’ll enjoy a fascinating romp through the history of textiles and the world they’ve crafted!
Virginia Postrel is a Los Angeles-based author, columnist, and independent researcher whose work spans a broad range of topics, from social science to fashion, concentrating on the intersection of culture, commerce, and technology. She learned to weave while researching The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World and is now the program co-chair for the Southern California Handweavers’ Guild. Virginia is also a regular columnist for Bloomberg Opinion and has written several other books, including The Power of Glamour: Longing and the Art of Visual Persuasion, The Substance of Style, and The Future and Its Enemies.
February 19 MSWG Silent Auction
Remember the terrific creations Yvonne Johnson and Karel Armstrong showed in their September program? This is your chance to acquire some materials to help you on your way to great creative opportunities and help the Native elders. The Silent Auction is our annual fund raiser for the guild commitment to support the Adopt-a-Native-Elder program by providing money for yarn for their weaving. Be generous and creative!
March 19 Introduction to Supplemental Warps, Deb Essen
Deb Essen will explain what supplemental warps are and how they work. She will present a tour/introduction to the weave structures woven with supplemental warps and how to set up your loom without a second back beam!
April 16 Weaving with Beads, Rebecca Smith
Rebecca Smith will take us on a tour of her 20 years as a tapestry weaver. A review of her work in pictorial and Southwest weaving styles will lead up to an in depth look at Rebecca’s signature style of weaving tapestries that incorporate beads and wire to create sculptural effects. She will discuss how light, contrast, and movement contribute to her successful designs.
May 21 Why Industrial Hemp Is So Important Today, Joan Ruane
This lecture includes a history of hemp, information about the actual plant, what happened to it for 50 years, and why it is so important to our world today.
June 18 Swedish Tapestries of Helena Hernmarck, Mae Colburn
Art historian Mae Colburn will introduce and discuss the Swedish tapestries of Helena Hernmarck. Mae Colburn is a New York-based scholar and weaver with an art history background in textiles and photography. She has worked alongside Helena Hernmarck since 2015, both as studio assistant and as archivist documenting the artist’s nearly 60-year career. Helena Hernmarck works from photographs rather than cartoons. Her tapestries capture the detail as well as the light and shadow of those photographs.
July 16 Tailgate Sale/Potluck
August 20 Double Rainbow, Jennifer Moore
Jennifer says, “My work in doubleweave has always focused on the interaction of color between the two layers of cloth. I will show a number of images of my work in doubleweave pickup that play one solid colored layer against a gradation of a spectrum of colors. In 2016 I began developing a system of color rotations in both the warp and the weft that combine with all of the possibilities for bringing different colors to the surface of the cloth and weaving in multiple blocks. I will show how this idea developed for me and the process that I go through in designing my textiles in my Double Rainbow technique.”
September 17 Eco-Botanical Printing: Releasing Nature's Secret, Dawn Edwards
Dawn says, “Eco-printing is gaining in popularity all around the world. Come and find out why. If you’re unfamiliar with eco-printing, also known as botanical printing, it quite simply refers to leaves and plant matter that print through a bundling and heating process. Eco-printing differs from ‘natural dyeing’…while both use natural plant materials, natural dyeing more commonly results in a fabric being dyed in one particular color. With eco-printing, you actually see the wonderful leaf prints on your piece, some, such as Eucalyptus leaves actually print in bright color.
Join me as I take you on a eco-printing tour where you’ll meet some of my friends from around the world, and see their beautiful eco-printed creations. We’ll visit friends from Australia, Ireland, and the Netherlands before ending our tour at my Plainwell, Michigan studio.”
October 15 TBD
November 19 Wales Wool Festival/British Ganseys History and Tradition, Beth Brown-Reinsel
December 17 Holiday Party
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Granite Peak Unitarian Universalist Congregation,
882 Sunset Ave., Prescott, AZ |