Episode 16: Weaving Teachers
This episode we celebrate the weaving teacher, those wonderful people who share their talents and knowledge with the rest of us. We have the results of the Teach a Friend to Weave contest, tell some of your stories, take a tour of The Weavers’ School on Whidbey Island, and talk to talented teachersMadelyn van der Hoogt and Peggy Osterkamp.
Resources (mentioned during the show)
- Seattle Weavers' Guild
- Heritage Spinning and Weaving
- Laura Fry's new study group
- Weaving Works
- Karin Madigan’s blog
- The Weavers' School
- Nancy Alegria's blog
- Peggy Osterkamp's site
Musical Guests
- “Guru Rabbi Teacher” by Secret Archives of the Vatican
- “Teaching and Learning” by akustikfilm
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posted by Syne Mitchell at 7:26 PM
7 Comments:
I was very fortunate in being able to visit The Weaver's School - twice - when it was in Missouri and take classes with Madelyn. I'm really looking forward to getting my CD so I can hear this episode! :)
Cheers,
Laura Fry
http://laurafry.com
I popped in the mail, yesterday, so you shauld have it when you get back from Red Deer. Have fun at the conference!
Syne
I am a knitter who has been listening to your podcast from the beginning. Now I am buying a tapestry loom!
Keep up the good work.
Cindy
www.fitterknitter.livejournal.com
Congratulations on your receipt of the grant, Syne! I'm so proud of you, and also of the wisdom and vision of the judges in seeing the impact a weaving radio show delivered online can - and does! - have. Lucky us!
After your last 'cast on the HGA Certificate of Excellence program, where I had just ordered the study booklet the week or so before (and finally got to see when I arrived home to Redwood City from Tucson a few weeks later), I've been wishing for something like this, where you touch base with some of the fabulous teachers active on the scene now, and/or when weaving had its last big boom like knitting is these days, the late 1960s and early '70s.
I've also been thinking of my teachers and theirs. Along with Peggy Osterkamp and Madeline van der Hoogt, I'm wondering if Suzanne Gaston-Voute is still active. I had heard she's in the Seattle or Vancouver area these days, and was vary active in the blossoming of another generation of weavers and more importantly weaving teachers like my mom and her compatriots, in the Twin Cities. Even though I was a kid-tagging-along from time to time, I remember some of the things she said, and taught, and my first weaving was on one of (my mother's) Kircher frame looms that Suzanne was importing to the region before the Beka loom or the Northfield loom companies existed.
I've got my Norwood loom home, and have been weaving this afternoon! There are pix up at my flickr account, flickr.com/photos/rtds/
grins,
RuTemple
Cindy:
Welcome to the warp side! Have fun with your tapestry loom. I'm hoping to tackle tapestry one day soon. It looks fun, like painting with yarn!
Ru:
It's great to hear from you. I don't know the whereabouts of Suzanne Gaston-Voute, but she sounds like she was an inspiration to many. Have fun with your Norwood!
Syne
Syne,
I love your podcast and have been very inspired by it. Someday I will actually weave again. (My sons are 5 and 3.)
Can you explain a little more about the selection process for the teacher contest? I didn't quite 'get' the bit about the coin flips...
Always looking to learn something new, Johanna
Hi Johanna,
I used the coin flips to create a binary number, ones were heads, zeros were tails.
So if you flip a coin 4 times you generate a binary number that looks like: 0110. This translates out to 6: 0 in the 2 to the zero column, 1 in the 2 to the 1 column, 1 in the 2 to the 2 column, 0 in the 2 to the 3 column.
I flipped a coin enough times to generate a number that could encompass all the entrants. I use this method instead of a computerized random number generator because computerized random numbers aren't really random (they depend on the computer's clock.)
A fine point, but makes my inner geek happy.
Happy boy wrangling and (someday) weaving!
Syne
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