Joan Pasman and i went to the beadworker’s guild show at BBAC last night. It was spectacular!!! Margie Ferraro had many pieces in the show as did Pat Wiley. Don’t miss this show.
Archive for July, 2009
The Fiber Arts Festival in Charlevoix at Castle Farms is happening this Saturday and Sunday, July 25 and July 26.
Close to 60 vendors with top quality products – If you go to this website, at the bottom, you can see a pdf with all the vendors and what they are selling.
http://www.castlefarms.com/Michigan-Festivals-And-Shows/event-calendar/Fiber-Arts-Festival/
If you come, please stop [...]
Here–somewhat late-are my pictures from the trip to Greenfield Village.
Joan K.
If you haven’t already heard, two of of very own MWG members, Richard and Chris Jeryan, were interviewed by Syne Mitchell for the latest Podcast of her Weavecast series. It’s titled Jacquard Weaving – Alice Schein is also intereviewed. The Jeryans did a FABULOUS job – great content on the history of them restoring and [...]
Took the day off work on Thursday and went to the Ann Arbor Art Fair. On the fiber front, what I found most interesting was the rugs from Turtle Island Fibers in Traverse City www.turtleislandfibers.com and someone who had knitted paper sculptures (I did not take one of her cards). While I am not a [...]
Rinzin and Leki Wangmo, master weavers from Bhutan, travel to Front Porch Textiles (Mary Underwood’s studio) Ann Arbor July 20. Shuttle, Spindle and Dyepot featured them in the Spring, 2007 issue. Please come for any or all of the events planned and take advantage of this rare opportunity to see some of the [...]
In the New York Times travel section this past Sunday their was an article with the title above. The author was in a paper shop in Madrid Spain and had bought some paper by a Barcelona artist named Montse Buxo. He wasn’t able to cut it for the lapt he wanted to use it for [...]