The registration on our Epic workshop in Nuno Felting is closing next weekend July 15th. Visit Laurie Steffler’s webpage to see the beautiful things she does. This Course would be a great Mother /Daughter adventure, or find a friend to bring. workshop dates are Oct 12-14th.
https://www.saltspringfiberadventures.com/
Saturday, July 7, 2018
Sunday, April 29, 2018
Thursday, March 22, 2018
Spring Conference.
It is coming soon! If your thinking of entering the show and sale today is the day!
April 7th.
INTRO TO NUNO FELTING - Cheryl Peebles - instructor
April 7th.
INTRO TO NUNO FELTING - Cheryl Peebles - instructor
This workshop will act as an introduction to Nuno Felting for many, some may have experience with this technique and will be honing their skill.
Nuno Felting differs from other heavier forms of felting in that it uses very little fibre which is felted to a light weight fabric of natural fibre such as silk or cotton cheesecloth. For this class we will create a gorgeous scarf with a nice soft drape however, this technique lends itself very well to all manner of clothing.
With this workshop one will have an understanding of the technique and the skill to take on the Fall Nuno Felting workshop with Lorrie Stefler creating a vest or tunic at Saskatoon Lake. (Watch for further course info from Saskatoon Lake Weavers).
NUNO FELTING Participant Supply list
Pool Noodle – about 24” wide (one noodle can be shared between a couple of people)
I will be bringing some along so don’t worry if you can’t find any
Bubble Wrap - min 12” wide – max. 24” by 6 -7’ long. This must be a continuous piece. Taping pieces together does not seem to work due to the water…
Dowel – 3/8” dia. about 3’ long - to go through the noodle
Dish Soap bottle – empty (or a 500ml water bottle capable of sprinkling or squirting water)
Old towels – to sop up water on the floor
Masking Tape – This can be shared
OPTIONAL- small amounts of Interesting bits of yarn or fibre to be felted in for embellishment.
To be supplied by instructor:
-materials fee $15. Fibre kit – includes either silk or cheesecloth, Pool Noodles, up to 4 - 10gr pieces of merino in your choice of colors
- Plastic to cover the table tops.
Additional Fibre and cloth will be available for purchase.
Spring Conference, April 7. 2018
Fairview Fine Arts Centre, 10801-103 Ave. Fairview phone; 780-835-2697 Fax: 780-835-5561
REGISTRATION FORM- Nuno felting with Cheryl Peebles
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Email or Phone:_______________________________________________________________________________Course fee: $35 for member plus material, $60 for non-member plus materials
Materials Cheryl has kits for $15 or you can bring your own if you prefer.
Please forward your registration toLvia Canada post)
Marion Walker(Treas) Email: mewalker@gpnet.ca
RR2, Site 17, Box 2,Sexsmith, Ab.T0H 3C0
Agenda:
8:30 a.m. arrival for coffee and snacks
9-12 Nuno felting with Cheryl Peebles instructing
1-2 PCSW meeting
2-4 Opening of our exhibition at the gallery- come and meet with the public; enjoy refreshments and goodies.
Please submit your entries for the show to the area reps by March 15. The gallery takes 30% so price your items accordingly- we need list of items 2 weeks prior to the show so that the labels can be made- hope we get lots of entries!_
Wednesday, February 14, 2018
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Sunday, January 28, 2018
Tell Me About.... A Brief History of Spinning wheels or How Spinning
Wheels Made the World as We Know It Today.
A Brief History
There is no archeological evidence of early spinning wheels, so evidence of their history has to be derived from artwork and historical records.
This hand scroll ‘The Spinning Wheel’ was painted in ink and colours on silk by Chinese artist Wang Juzheng, who lived during the Northern Song Dynasty between 960 and 1127 AD. (from: www.wildfibres.co.uk/html/spinning_wheels_history.html)
Spinning wheels spread from China to Iran, then on to Europe, arriving there in the early part of the 13th Century. The early wheels were like the Chinese wheel and didn’t not have rims, but had string running through holes in the ends of the spokes, much like a Swift today.
These early wheels were turned by the hand or a stick and the spinner would spin off the end of the spindle with the other hand. Great wheels are an example of this kind of wheel.
Leonardo Da Vinci worked on the mechanics of a flyer wheel, like our modern wheels, but he did not invent the flyer wheel itself. The earliest known flyer wheel is in a picture from southern Germany, dated from 1475-1480.
There is no clear evidence for wheels with a treadle until the 17th Century. At the beginning of the Industrial Revolution it took a minimum of five spinners to keep up with one weaver. In 1764 a British carpenter and weaver called James Hargreaves invented an improved Spinning Jenny, which was a hand-powered, multiple spinning machine
A Brief History
There is no archeological evidence of early spinning wheels, so evidence of their history has to be derived from artwork and historical records.
This hand scroll ‘The Spinning Wheel’ was painted in ink and colours on silk by Chinese artist Wang Juzheng, who lived during the Northern Song Dynasty between 960 and 1127 AD. (from: www.wildfibres.co.uk/html/spinning_wheels_history.html)
Spinning wheels spread from China to Iran, then on to Europe, arriving there in the early part of the 13th Century. The early wheels were like the Chinese wheel and didn’t not have rims, but had string running through holes in the ends of the spokes, much like a Swift today.
These early wheels were turned by the hand or a stick and the spinner would spin off the end of the spindle with the other hand. Great wheels are an example of this kind of wheel.
Leonardo Da Vinci worked on the mechanics of a flyer wheel, like our modern wheels, but he did not invent the flyer wheel itself. The earliest known flyer wheel is in a picture from southern Germany, dated from 1475-1480.
There is no clear evidence for wheels with a treadle until the 17th Century. At the beginning of the Industrial Revolution it took a minimum of five spinners to keep up with one weaver. In 1764 a British carpenter and weaver called James Hargreaves invented an improved Spinning Jenny, which was a hand-powered, multiple spinning machine
that was the first mechanized invention to improve upon the spinning wheel.
For the 8,000 or more years before the development of the spinning wheel, all fibre was made into yarn with various kinds of spindles.
The Following information comes from the Wild Fibres website cited above:
The drop spindle is a slow way of making the long lengths of fibre required for weaving cloth. And an even longer length of fibre was required to make the sails of Viking longboats. Spinning was therefore so important and time-consuming for cloth production that it was the bottleneck for clothing and for sail-making at a time when vertical warp-weighted looms were already in use to weave cloth and to an even greater extent when horizontal heddle looms took their place in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
According to Lynn White, the invention of the spinning wheel speeded up the rate at which fibre could be spun by a factor of 10 to 100 times, removing this bottleneck to cloth production. Lynn
White argues that the spinning wheel lead to a breakthrough in linen production when it reached Europe around 1200 AD, with many more linen clothes being produced and many more linen rags being produced, with some unintended consequences.
Spinning wheels and paper production
In his paper on technology assessment, Lynn White suggests that the availability of linen rags, which resulted from a step change in linen production, also removed a bottleneck in paper production, which had been recently introduced from China.
Prior to the introduction of paper, books were made from parchment and a large Bible required the skins of two to three hundred sheep or calves to produce sufficient parchment.
Cheap paper then led to the introduction of printing by
Gutenberg, the production of cheap books and
broadsheets, and provided the opportunity for universal
education and a basis for modern democracy. Therefore
modern democracies are a direct, if unintended, consequence of the invention of the spinning wheel in China one thousand years ago.
For the 8,000 or more years before the development of the spinning wheel, all fibre was made into yarn with various kinds of spindles.
The Following information comes from the Wild Fibres website cited above:
The drop spindle is a slow way of making the long lengths of fibre required for weaving cloth. And an even longer length of fibre was required to make the sails of Viking longboats. Spinning was therefore so important and time-consuming for cloth production that it was the bottleneck for clothing and for sail-making at a time when vertical warp-weighted looms were already in use to weave cloth and to an even greater extent when horizontal heddle looms took their place in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
According to Lynn White, the invention of the spinning wheel speeded up the rate at which fibre could be spun by a factor of 10 to 100 times, removing this bottleneck to cloth production. Lynn
White argues that the spinning wheel lead to a breakthrough in linen production when it reached Europe around 1200 AD, with many more linen clothes being produced and many more linen rags being produced, with some unintended consequences.
Spinning wheels and paper production
In his paper on technology assessment, Lynn White suggests that the availability of linen rags, which resulted from a step change in linen production, also removed a bottleneck in paper production, which had been recently introduced from China.
Prior to the introduction of paper, books were made from parchment and a large Bible required the skins of two to three hundred sheep or calves to produce sufficient parchment.
Cheap paper then led to the introduction of printing by
Gutenberg, the production of cheap books and
broadsheets, and provided the opportunity for universal
education and a basis for modern democracy. Therefore
modern democracies are a direct, if unintended, consequence of the invention of the spinning wheel in China one thousand years ago.
Cesare Marchetti argues that
The spinning wheel and naval warfare
It is equally likely that European colonial expansion and naval warfare are also a consequence of the invention of the spinning wheel.
It is equally likely that European colonial expansion and naval warfare are also a consequence of the invention of the spinning wheel.
and nations.
The sails of Viking longboats prior to 1000 AD
were entirely spun on drop spindles and the fibre
for each sail would have required months of
spinning before it was woven. The introduction of
the spinning wheel, in combination with
developments in weaving looms, would have
allowed a dramatic expansion in the number, size
and speed of sailing ships for national and
merchant navies. The consequence, or historical
opportunity, of this being the colonization of the
Americas, Africa and India by European navies
Therefore, the invention of the spinning wheel provided the historical opportunity for
modern democracy and for naval warfare, as well as kick starting the large-scale
production of woven textiles.
Here's the sources cited in the article:
Cesare Marchetti (1979) A postmortem technology assessment of the spinning wheel: the last thousand years. Technological Forecasting and Social Change vol. 13, pp 91-93.
Joseph Needham (1965) Science and Civilisation in China. Vol. 4 (2). Cambridge, England.
Lynn White (1974) Technology Assessment from the stance of a medieval historian. American Historical Review. Vol. 79 (1), pp 1-13.
Isn’t it great to know that the ancient craft of spinning was instrumental in making our modern world?
Marjo Wheat
Here's the sources cited in the article:
Cesare Marchetti (1979) A postmortem technology assessment of the spinning wheel: the last thousand years. Technological Forecasting and Social Change vol. 13, pp 91-93.
Joseph Needham (1965) Science and Civilisation in China. Vol. 4 (2). Cambridge, England.
Lynn White (1974) Technology Assessment from the stance of a medieval historian. American Historical Review. Vol. 79 (1), pp 1-13.
Isn’t it great to know that the ancient craft of spinning was instrumental in making our modern world?
Marjo Wheat
Friday, January 5, 2018
Hello Happy 2018! I'd like to introduce myself as the new editor of this Blog. I have never done a Blog so this feels like it will be a steep learning curve for me. So far, just the sign in process has been an experience. 😳 I think we have it figured out now, Faye has gotten lots of emails; that she kindly answered, and I think she may get more as I try and figure out this blogging thing. Thanks Faye
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