Welcome to the Oakville Handweavers and Spinners Guild Blog. We started in
1952 and since then we have taken part in many local community activities. Members of our Guild demonstrate spinning or weaving at historical sites throughout Oakville; we network with Guilds in surrounding areas by means of workshops and seminars; we participate with other local Guilds in textile exhibitions and provide individual and group instruction in weaving and spinning.
As a blog is supposed to be written in the present tense, I get just one chance to explain how it begins. Longer even than my dedication to tapestryweaving, has been my affinity for South Asia. I first travelled there overland in 1972-73, through many places now more difficult. The photo of me was taken in 1978 by my Nepali host on the front step of a farmhouse, on a hill overlooking
Pokhara on one side, and the Annapurna range on the other. I homed in on one of my photos of the mountains, for my first journey through a woven tapestry wallhanging a few years after. It felt like I had climbed the mountain, stitch by stitch. Years later when I revisited the same vantage point, all the details of the view clicked into place
Come join the Oakville Handweavers and Spinners Guild to our monthly meeting on April 29 at 2:00 pm. where we will be glad to share with you a wonderful artist talk by Tapestry weaver:.
Tapestry weaver since 1982, better known for his study of the tapestry design and weaving techniques used in the historic Kashmir shawl. Tapestry is also a great metaphor for connecting the world meaningfully.
Talk:
"A Tapestry is like a Unicorn...Everybody knows what one looks like, but nobody has ever seen one."
The essential character of tapestry, and why the word is so widely understood and used metaphorically, but rarely about woven textile. Peter Harris will share lots of illustrations from some artists and from his own work. Two excerpts have since been published (about the definition of tapestry in the CTN newsletter, and the modern tapestry artist's dilemma, in Fibre Focus) but not the main thesis, which is about visual storytelling strategies.
RSVP. Free for members.
$ 10.00 CAN Non-Members
where: Oakville Art Society, (to whom we thank the support to the OHS for our Monthly meetings)
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