Structure Session: Weaving Stories From the Past

Date: January 27
Time: 6:00PM-7:30PM MST 

With Jamie Hurlburt 

All Structure Sessions will be held via Zoom. A link will be sent out the day of the session to the email used when you place your order. The recording will be sent out after the session and you will have access to the recording for one month. 

Description:

Who were the people who made handweaving what it is today? While the weavers who came before us are too numerous to count, many people have left their personal stamp on handweaving in North America. We know their names from the books they wrote, the studios and guilds they established, and from the patterns they kept alive.

Telling the stories from our immediate handweaving history teaches us how we are part of a long tradition of craft stretching back centuries. It also shows us how much grit and passion were needed to keep handweaving going! Weavers rode on ponies to isolated villages to copy down local designs by candlelight, sifted through boxes of drafts scribbled on scraps of rotting paper, made unlikely allies with mathematicians and carpenters, and kept weaving going in big ways and small.

Covering major figures like Mary Meigs Atwater and Marguerite Porter Davison as well as lesser known weavers like Lou Tate and Oscar Beriau, this session will sketch out the timeline of handweaving in North America from the 1880s through the 1940s.

You will leave with names and books to search up, leads to follow, a deeper sense of your place in the handweaving tradition, and a whole bunch of fun stories to share.

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