Thursday, April 26, 2012

Marshland tapestry and tapestry design workshops

 It's nice to put a tapestry weaver in the spotlight on these pages for a change. Tapestry proceeds so slowly. It can take months to complete a tapestry compared to a fabric weaver who can weave many things in that time, though not all fabric weavers do so. Here Walter Rothenburger stands proudly beside his beautiful rendition of his photogrpah of a canadian marsh. Many of us watched as Walter slowly and patiently wove this tapestry so we all felt the elation with him when the weaving part of it was finally done. Of course, many of us know that there is still the finishing work to do for this.
Many people have told how impressed they were with the images people painted for the Community Threads project in Alliston. Most of the people who painted these images had little if any, painting experience. I've been asked if I'd offer a painting and designing one week workshop for tapestry weavers and below are the details. Time is running out to reserve your spot so let me know asap.

DESIGNING FOR TAPESTRY WEAVINGAn intensive painting and design course for the tapestry weaver without art training. June 18 - 22 10am to 4pm
Toronto Weaving School, 255 Royal York Road, Toronto, On
$250. plus materials, $300 if you would like to include lunch.
Contact: Line Dufour tapestryline@sympatico.ca or telephone 905 836 1321
Register by May 1 2012

Lynne Wilson-Orr and Judite Vagners who have both studied tapestry with me,  have arrived in Peru to take Maximo Laura's tapestry weaving workshops organized by Puchka Tours. Lynne sent me an email recently and this is what she said: 
Hello from Lima,

Tomorrow morning at the crack of dawn, we leave for Arequipa so I can
learn how to weave tapestries like this(turn sideways to see properly). 
We have been to museums, galleries, artist studios and a silver shop and 
eaten our way through a mountain of food. Almost no-one has been eating dinner as 
lunch starts at 1:30 and doesn't end until almost 4pm! There are 24 participants - 
4 husbands and 20 women, quite a few Australians, 9 Canadians and a couple of Americans. 
The photo is a detail of a tapestry by Maximo Laura who I will spend 4 days with as a teacher. 
His work is extraordinary and my family generously decided to give me money 
for a Peruvian artwork for my birthday so we now own one of his pieces. 
It is from his sun and moon series which resonates with me as the Spaniards 
referred to Peru as the land is the sweat of the sun(gold) and tears of the moon(silver).

Debbie Harris has already done this workshop and bought a number of Maximo's tapestries as well.

Other info:

Alpaca roving for sale $7 / lb - contact Francois Seguin at frank257@sympatico.ca
Loom for sale
From: Kim Bushby [mailto:kbushby2@hotmail.com]
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 7:51 PMI have a 36" leclerc 4 shaft counterbalance
loom for 350.00 and a 45" leclerc 4 shaft counterbalance loom for 250.00. The 45"
is disassembled for transport but I have pics of it before being taken apart if anybody
is interested. Both looms are in good condition. Have a great weekend all,
Kim Bushby
Links
Remember the tapestry restoration we undertook recently? Mimma Draga sent us this link because the owner 's son, Joseph Rumi, was featured in the Mississauga paper

Another tapestry weaver and blog I enjoyed:
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