Thrums – Bits and Bobs
Cathy Koos
Surface Design Association reminds us about free weekly Textile Talks hosted by the International Quilt Museum. You can sign up here: https://www.internationalquiltmuseum.org/textile-talks Previous segments are also available on YouTube here:
https://youtu.be/Hf9OrZA-avk?si=HusLNBSWjZwlIz4o
The Ontario Handweavers and Spinners announce the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair in Guelph, Ontario is running now, November 1 – 10. They invite all to their new Fleece and
Wool Centre where there will be demonstrations, as they commit to education within the fibre realm.
Talas, a fine art and decorative paper business in Brooklyn, NY shares a great article on buffered vs unbuffered paper for archival storage. Learn which papers are better for silk, wool, or cotton here: https://blog.talasonline.com/blog/categories/storage
The Textile Museum of Canada is looking to grow their exhibitions of worldwide textiles. Find out more and take a look at their collections here: https://textilemuseum.ca/
In addition to selling new yarns, Gist Yarns, offers tips for thrift-shopping yarns of unknown heredity in their blog here: https://www.gistyarn.com/blogs/how-to-weave
Ukranian Weaver in America Vera Nakonechny, a Ukranian textile artist living in Philadelphia working to keep alive traditions is profiled here:
https://www.arts.gov/honors/heritage/vera-nakonechny
And last but not least, an idea from the Working Weavers Studio Trail of Shelburne Falls, MA. Each autumn for a two-day weekend, ten working weavers across six studios open their doors to visitors for demonstrations and gallery sales. Check them out on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/wwstudiotrail/ Are there any fiber artists in the CNCH world with studios reasonably close to each other that could set up a studio trail like this?