Sponsored by TWIST - Tablet Weavers International Studies & Techniques Just want to add a little to Janis' description, since she had to leave so early. After introducing ourselves, some of us showed recent escapades in tablet weaving. And we talked about having a one- or two-day event in conjunction with CNCH in 2006. There was strong interest in doing that.
Someone did pass around an attendance list, so whoever did that has a list of those attending. Was it you, Linda Hendrickson? Or was it Barbara Shapiro? We ended up not going to dinner, but a small group of us had about an hour together looking at samples of different structures and guessing what they were. Linda and Patty Townsend had purchased some horse hair braids at a booth that might have been warp twined. But they also could have been looped. No consensus on that. Martha Stanley joined us and showed us a warp-wrapped braid with Peruvian lineage. We talked about spreading the cards out and producing interlaced and gauze weave structures (Linda brought a gauze weave scarf she had woven with tablets). I had some samples of spaced-weft twining with warp movement that looked a lot like Linda's scarf structurally, in the warp at least. We had a really stimulating time! On Monday afternoon, Gudrun Polak brought Linda over to my home in Santa Cruz to look at the Anne Blinks and Lillian Elliott tablet weaving sample collections. At lunch, sitting on a cliff we had the pleasure of sighting a whale (possibly two), several dolphins and thousands of sea birds feeding close to shore. We all had our feeding frenzy together, the birds, the whales, the dolphins and us. I took both of Inge Dam's seminars, tried to learn her notation. Thought I knew how to weave the Snartemo technique - it looked so easy on paper - and proceeded to make many mistakes. So now I get to try it again on my own. Is notation in the eye of the individual tablet weaver? Inge's samples are so beautiful. I hope every TWIST member is able to see her work at some point. I also took Makiko Tada's seminar on looped braiding. My present pursuit is to learn this technique well enough so that I can interrupt my braiding, come back to it and know what the next crossing will be. It's even worse than tablet weaving in this regard! Gudrun sat next to me and very quickly discovered how to recreate one of my mistakes, which turned out to be important for the learning process of the structure of the 10 loop braid we were making. It was a breakthrough. It was good to meet so many tablet weavers and braiders at CNCH. I hope many TWISTers meet at Convergence in Denver and have as much fun as we did here. Nora Rogers Santa Cruz, CA Send private reply to Nora Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----------------------------------------------------------- To stop receiving tabletweaving (not tabletweaving-digest), send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: unsubscribe tabletweaving. To stop receiving tabletweaving-digest, see the end of a digest.
