My neighbor sent me this interesting newspaper article from Florida, and when i went online to read more about it, i found a great little video. thought you might like reading and seeing it as well.
Mary Rios
article: http://www.tampabay.com/features/humaninterest/article968162.ece
Archive for January, 2009
FEBRUARY 2009 MEETING
Farmington Community Library
12 Mile Road between Orchard Lake and Farmington Road
Farmington Hills
Driving Directions
11:00 AM Board Meeting
12:00 PM Social Time
12:30 PM General Meeting
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19TH, 2009
Mary Underwood, a frequent traveler to Mongolia, will be our February presenter. Mary has made several trips to Mongolia and the Gobi Desert, studying the felt-making of these desert [...]
This summer, June 20 – August 1, 2009, the Royal Oak Public Library (and other Southeastern Michigan libraries) have as their Summer Reading Program Theme, “Be Creative at Your Library.” I have volunteered to coordinate a program at the Royal Oak Library to help encourage the fiber arts among elementary school children, who are going [...]
http://gallery.me.com/susanlolli#100044
The above should take you to a gallery of some of the pictures that were taken by the professional photographer of the opening.
You should be able to download copies.
Unfortunately – only half of the pictures on the disk sent to me were readable. I will try to get another copy.
The photographer is Bill [...]
Today the New York Times had an article regarding Historical Photos on the web. I was drawn to the article since it had a picture from the Library of Congress titled “Weavers at Work”.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/19/technology/internet/19link.html?scp=1&sq=historical%20photos&st=cse
It spoke about a couple places that have historical and free photos you can download.
Wikipidea Commons has photos that are available [...]
The workshop was great fun, and wedge weave did not seem as tedious as most tapestry is. In fact, it was really enjoyable. Mollie did a great job instructing us. There was a great variety of looms used as you will see if Sus Lolli and I manage to post our pictures. Mollie had a [...]
Just showing some how to blog
The exhibit at the BBAC is wonderful! I talked to some non-fiber people who take classes at BBAC yesterday and they were raving about the quality of the show. I loved the wide variety of media and techniques in the show. Congratulations to those who entered. Joan K
It was good to see so many of the guild venturing out yesterday, on a snowy night. Thought I would share some of my pictures from the exhibit. I was told that I would be given the “professional” set of photos and once I do I will share those. These are my “still trying to [...]
Now I am going to try to show some close-ups of the bracelets. Joan Koelsch