The Gainesville Handweavers' Guild

Program: An Inkling on Weaving Historical Patterns by the Inkle Loom Weavers of the Lake City Historical Society

Wednesday, February 29 7:30
Unitarian Universalist Church
4225 NW 34th Street
Gainesville, FL

” . . . rather expect this to be more of a brief background and basic info introduction followed by more of an exchange and interaction as the time progresses. . . . We are friends as a result of our involvement at the Lake City-Columbia County Historical Museum where we are all docents as well as on the Board of Directors. As part of our activities at the Museum, we formed a living history group that focuses on the 1800′s. Attending reenactments and living history events and needing an activity that women of the era would have done……..we researched handicrafts. Spinning, drop spindle, knitting, tatting, embroidery – many choices of period activities. Finger weaving was appropriate for our Native American events, but we needed something that would be easier for folks to do……..bag and inkle loom were the answer!”

_A Strawberry in the Snow_ Ellen Knudson (illustrator) Leah Eisenbeis(author) (c) 2007 image courtesy of Ellen Knudson

Program: Exploring Contemporary Colors by Ellen Knudson

Wednesday, January 25
7:30-9:30pm
Unitarian Universalist Church
4225 NW 34th Street
Ellen Knudson is a book artist / designer producing handmade books under the imprint Crooked Letter Press. She is also currently Associate in Book Arts at The University of Florida. Her work is in the collections of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (CA), Yale University (CT), Duke University (NC), and many other national and international collections.
Her work can be seen at: www.crookedletterpress.com
She will give a short lecture and slideshow about the basics of color and show some examples of good use of color in graphic paintings and artwork. She will give some of her own opinions about how to select color — and what she considers to be the secrets of good color.