2009 - 2010 EVENTS & PROGRAMS
The Pikes Peak Weavers' Guild meets the second Friday of each month from September through May at the Mountain View Church of Christ, 1080 E. LaSalle St at Paseo in Colorado Springs, CO (unless otherwise indicated).
Come for coffee, socializing and library time at 9:00 am. The business meeting starts at 9:30; the program begins at 11 AM. Click and drag on the map below for more location information.
Meetings and Programs
- Sept 8-10, 2009 - Fall Workshop -- Melissa Weaver Dunning
- Sept 11, 2009 - Historical Weaving -- Melissa Weaver Dunning
- Sept 11, 2009 - PPWG Scholarship Applications Due
- Oct 4-10, 2009 Weaving and Spinning Week
- Oct 9, 2000 - TBA
- Nov 13, 2009 - Teaching Weaving -- Robin Wilton*
- Nov 13, 2009 - Inkle Weaving workshop (following regular meeting)
- Dec 11, 2009 - PPWG Holiday Party
- Jan 08, 2010 - African Textiles -- Judi Arndt
- Feb 12, 2010 - TBA
- Mar 12, 2010 - TBA
- Apr 9, 2010 - TBA
- May 14, 2010 - PPWG end of year luncheon
- Jul 18-21 2010 - Complex Weavers Seminar
- Jul 18-25 2010 - HGA Convergence
* indicates a mini-workshop will be given after the presentation
PPWG ANNUAL WORKSHOP
Three Shaft Weaves: Simple and Complex- - February 10 - 12, 2009
One of the primary cloth weave structures of the past 2000
years is 2/1 twill. As a "simple" structure, it is called serge in
silk and wool, jean in cotton and wool/cotton, fustian in
linen/cotton, dimity in linen and cotton, and ticking in linen and
cotton.
If "complex" is defined as more than one warp and/or weft,
2/1 twill is the binder in silk samit and the backing for cotton
corduroy, wool plush and silk velvet.
This workshop includes drafts
for all the above except velvet.
A look at counterbalance loom
construction, the characteristics
of the fibers used, and the uses for
the finished cloth help in understanding
why 2/1 twill was and
continues to be among our most common weave structures.
Instructor: Cindy Ruesink
Ms. Ruesink's formal education includes a BA from Thiel College in English and
German and an MS in Library Science from Drexel Institute of
Technology in Philadelphia. She has lived 5 years outside the US: 1
year in Germany as a college student, 3 years teaching English in
Japan, and 1 year on family sabbatical in Australia.
Her interest in learning to spin and weave began while she lived iin Australia (1981-1982.) After her return, she took weaving and spinning lessons from local guild members, wove for 2 professional weavers (apprenticeship), and gradually realized that her interest was pattern weaving with fine threads.
Ms. Ruesink joined Complex Weavers to be a member of the Manuscript and Medieval Study Groups. During the past 5 years while living in Southern Indiana, she discovered many 3 treadle looms and worked with a botany professor at Hanover College to identify woods and construction techniques used in these looms. They received a Hanover College Rivers Institute Grant to scientifically date 9 looms currently located near the Ohio River.
Her research interests
are: American and European counterbalance looms, band and ribbon
looms, weavers' manuscripts and account books, and handwoven
textiles.
Contact: Diane Fabeck
d_fabeck@msn.com
