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Past Programs

Presentations by Interest Groups

June 20, 2008

The Basket Group The Basket Group started in 1970 and meets at 12 Noon on the first Thursday of the month at member’s homes. Members showed their projects: Anne Marie Buchanan showed her breadbaskets and two original bowls she learned how to do at a workshop in York. Noelle Lamb – cedar and sedge basket. [...]

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Working with Alpaca and Llama Fibre

June 5, 2008

May 15th, Meeting Program: Gretchen Hoff, who raises alpacas and llamas on her farm in Maple Ridge, covered the process from harvesting to spinning their hair. Susan Forsyth (www.woolcombs.com) demonstrated how to comb the hair to separate out the coarse hair from the more desirable soft fine hairs and showed several lovely garments made from [...]

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Program Report – May 15, 2008

May 15, 2008

Our guest was Gretchen Hoff, social worker and knitter as well as llama and alpaca farmer and the designer/seamstress known as the Scattered Gardener. She was ably assisted by her friend Susan Forsyth who, along with her husband Andrew, makes woolcombs and other spinners’ tools. Gretchen very kindly handed out samples of her dehaired llama, [...]

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Narrative in Textiles by Bettina Matzkuhn

April 17, 2008

Bettina’s textile artwork has a strong focus on narrative. She showed digital photos of her work over the years and discussed how she portrayed her and her family’s life experiences using mainly embroidery and fabric collage. This has led to an interest in cartography. Cartographic designs are now being incorporated into her art as a [...]

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South Sulawesi Indonesian Weaving by Maria Newton-Mason

March 20, 2008

Maria shared her appreciation and knowledge of Indonesian Weaving in a fascinating slide lecture based on her ethnographic fieldwork for her master’s thesis. She was able to spend time with the people in the villages of South Sulawesi and learn from them directly. Maria also showed us many textiles and garments that she collected during [...]

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Photography for Textiles by Felicia Lo

February 21, 2008

Our presenter, Felicia Lo, discussed photography for textiles. There are plenty of practical and artistic reasons why we take photos of our textiles. The photos may be for personal record-keeping purposes or for professional use. Felicia emphasized that we first need to understand our focus — what aspects of the fabric or fiber do we [...]

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In Search of Lost Colour

January 17, 2008

Due to unfortunate circumstances our scheduled speaker, Bettina Matzkuhn, was unable to join us. She is rescheduled to present at our April meeting. In her stead we viewed the latest DVD documentary from Maiwa Productions entitled: In Search of Lost Colour — the story of natural dyes. This lovely documentary described the main sources of [...]

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Potluck & Gift Exchange 2007

December 20, 2007

Our annual Christmas Party with potluck goodies and a gift exchange. Much laughter ensued as some members really got into the spirit of the exchange where you could snatch a gift from another rather than choose a new one from the table! The hottest item appeared to be a lovely pair of hand-knit fingerless mitts [...]

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Inspired by India

September 20, 2007

Jo Anne Ryeburn and Dorothy Cross showed slides and textiles that they collected on their individual trips to India. Jo Anne also had the opportunity to attend the UNESCO Symposium on Natural Dyeing.

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Debra Sparrow

April 19, 2007

Debra Sparrow is an acclaimed weaver who has been weaving for twenty years and is deeply involved with the revival of Musqueam weaving. Her Musqueam blankets are displayed at the Vancouver Airport, and at UBC. She is active in a program at the Museum of Anthropology designed to teach grade four children about Musqueam culture [...]

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