...I think the words about "it does not matter how many or how few harnesses..." are very apt. Note: many of the study groups involve no shafts at all! - Shirley Berlin. See Complex Weavers Thoughts about Complexity

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New Seminar News: Download forms for items for the Silent Auction and the MarketPlace. The daily schedule, the room assignments for various events, and a hotel map are now available in the Seminars section of the web site. Go to Seminar. Forms about the Fashion Show are there also. In addition, there is guest registration for Seminars.

New The Member Survey, complete with the comments that responders made, is now available at srvy2010.htm. Find out what other weavers think! This is more complete than the summary in your June Newsletter.

Color Pictures from the June 2010 CW Journal are available here.

New The Library Is Moving All of the CW library has been boxed up. It is presently scheduled to be moved to a warehouse on July 13 to await a truck to Tennessee. We're sorry, nothing can be borrowed during this transition time. Tim Flint, the new Librarian, anticipates delivery in August. Of course, it will take time to set up before it is again available for borrowing.

The June Complex Weavers Journal was mailed on June 18. For recipients in the USA, it is sent at bulk mail rates, which may take up to six weeks to deliver, depending on how busy the post office is. CWJ to Canadian members goes airmail and should be there within two weeks. Overseas recipients should allow 17-20 days.

Collingwood DVD's are available again. In the USA, the 2-disk set is available from Amy Norris, email amy@amyfibre.com. The price is $15 per set, plus shipping. In the UK, the set is available from The Handweavers Studio in London; email to info@handweavers.co.uk for details.

In Memoriam Judy Lambert of Hood River, OR, died on July 7, 2010. She had been a long time member of Complex Weavers and was a member of the Fine Threads and Structure Study Groups. She had been a long time rep for ANWG (Assoc. of Northwest Weaving Guilds) and was current president of WEGO (Weaving Guilds of Oregon). She was a long standing member of the Portland Handweaver's Guild and treasurer of the Convergence that PHG hosted in Portland.

An RSS feed is now available for the CW web site. See the bottom of this page.

This month's showcase

Space Invaders Cloth

Space Invaders - Mitchell In July, we showcase Syne Mitchell's "Space Invaders Cloth". Click on the picture to see a larger version. She did this sample for the Fine Threads Study Group She writes (in the Complex Weavers Journal, # 93, June 2010, page 4):

"I've been wanting to learn how to design woven imagery using profile drafts for a while now. Inspired by Lillian Whipple's recent WeaveZine article, "Summer and Winter to Taqueté," I decided to try my hand at designing a draft. ... I decided to weave an image that was inherently blocky, and which would be an homage to the countless hours (and quarters) I spent in arcades as a kid: Space Invaders!

"...With only a few tweaks to the original alien designs, I was able to get the blocks-per-alien down to seven.

"...In my taqueté design, I used two shafts for the tie-downs, and a third for the plain background cloth; this left six shafts on the loom to play around with. Since I thought endless ranks of aliens would make a boring and repetitive cloth, I decided to use the other six shafts to add action to the cloth, by designing a column that showed the gunner/ player shooting the aliens. Again I had to fiddle and tweak the design a titch, but at last I got everything to work out. I had my homage to Space Invaders and I used all sixteen shafts on my loom!

" I found this combination of art (the imagery) and logic puzzle (fitting it all efficiently into 16 shafts) very satisfying and look forward to my next design."

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Used by permission.
This is the ninety-eighth item in our showcase of what members are doing.

Watch this space - something else will be here around the first week of August, 2010.
To see the items previously showcased, click Showcase

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