This past summer I took a jacquard weaving course in Florence, Italy and one of my instructors was Julie Holyoke, who just recently released this book. Julie is an international textile consultant, presenter, speaker and instructor in digital textile design. She has been living in Florence since her adolescence, but is originally from the USA. She is fluent in both English and Italian. Below is a link to Amazon where you can buy her book.
Inge Dam lives here in Shomberg, Ontario and has established quite a reputation for herself as a weaver. She's given many workshops for the Handweavers Guild of America at their Convergence conferences and recently she just released a book entitled
Tablet-Woven Accents for Designer Fabrics: Contemporary Uses for Anceint Techniques. It was recently reviews in Handwoven magazine in their last issue and here is a link to the spot on her website that features the book and offers you the option to buy it.
http://www.ingedam.net/book.html#.Us1cP_RDuSo. The following link is her website.
http://www.ingedam.net/
Hiroko Karuno, an expert in "shifu" spinning and weaving, and has just come out with a beautiful bilingual book: Kigami and Kami-ito: Japanese handmade paper and paper thread. It describes not only the history of shifu weaving, but shows amazingly detailed technical information on how to create the paper yarn on your own. You can order it at Habu yarns for $45 plus shipping but if you attend the talk at the Toronto Weavers and Spinners this evening (Wednesday January 8 2014 at 7a;30 pm, she will be selling copies for only $30 as well as giving a slide presentation of her apprenticeship in the technique of creating the paper, spinning the paper and weaving with it. It is the way of the future for fibre as it is entirely recyclable and does not cause any damage to the planet. Selvedge magazine featured an article on her work: http://www.exacteditions.com/read/selvedge/issue-22-3586/26/2/
RESOURCES
Recently I discovered Pinterest though I've known its been around for the last few years. I was looking for handweaving patterns and discovered that they have thousands, for every level of weaver. While I was searching on Pinterest, I also discovered this great site for looking for patterns:
http://handweaving.net/DraftsHome.aspx.
EXHIBITIONS
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January 9 - March 15, 2014
Opening Reception Thursday, January 23, 6 – 9 pm
Ontario Crafts Council Gallery
990 Queen Street West, Toronto
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http://www.craft.on.ca/Exhibitions/Upcoming_Exhibitions?utm_source=Active+Members+December+17%2c+2013&utm_campaign=1b59500f70-Craftfl_sh_February_20132_15_2013&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_febc5ca6b6-1b59500f70-117239829
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