Cranberryweavers

Cranberry Country Weavers' Guild is an organization of handweavers dedicated to the exploration and educational aspects of preserving the art of handweaving and other fiber arts and their relationship to weaving

Our meeting place is the West Bridgewater Public Library, 80 Howard Street, in West Bridgewater , Massachusetts . We meet the 3rd Wednesday of each month except for the months July, August and December.

The meetings consist of a business meeting and an educational program or hands-on workshop

about a technigue of handweaving or project. We meet from 10:00am- 2:00 ,sometimes, 3:00pm.

PLEASE VISIT US AGAIN AND AGAIN TO SEE WHAT WE ARE UP TO.

Driving Directions to the West Bridgewater Public Library

Directions to West Bridgewater Library:

From the North:

Take route 24 south to exit 16A.

Follow route 106 east for approximately 1.6 miles.

At blinking yellow light past High School, (middle/senior high school)

turn left onto Howard St. Follow curve to right, pass two houses and WBPL, #80 Howard St.,

is brick building on right.

Park in front lot or left side lot of building.

From the South:

Take route 24 north to exit 16A Follow route 106 east for approximately 1.6 miles.

At blinking yellow light past High School, (middle/senior high school)

Turn left on to Howard Street Follow curve to right, pass two houses

and WBPL, #80 Howard St., is brick building on right.

Park in front lot or left side lot of building.

or...From the South:

Rte. 495 to Exit 7 for Rte. 24 North. Take Exit 16A for Rte. 106 East into West Bridgewater. Pass through 1 set of traffic lights (at Hockomock Ctr.). Pass West Bridgewater High School on left. At blinking yellow light past High School, turn left onto Howard St.

Follow curve to right, pass two houses and WBPL is brick building on right. Park in front lot or side lot of building.

From the West:

Follow route 106 east.

Turn left on to Howard Street (right after the Middle / Senior High).

Follow Howard Street to 80 Howard St. Follow curve to right, pass two houses and WBPL is brick building on right.

Park in front lot or side lot of building.

From the East:

Take route 28 north from Bridgewater to route 106 west.

Follow route 106 west through the center of West Bridgewater.

Turn right on to Howard Street (right after the Police and Fire Station).

Follow Howard Street to 80 Howard St.

From the East Bridgewater/Whitman area:

Take Rte.18 South to Rte. 106 West. Continue past intersection of Rtes. 106 and 28 at lights

and proceed past WB Police station to blinking yellow light on 106 (before WBHS).

Take a right on Howard St. The WBPL is around the curve on the right.

This page was last updated on: October 16, 2009

The Cranberry Country Weavers Guild is a contributing guild member of the New England Weavers Seminar held every two years. The New Enland Weavers Seminar was held in July 2005 at Merrimack College, in North Andover, MA. Photos of the guild's exhibit at the conference from 2003 and 2005 are below. Next Seminar will be held July 2007 at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. For more information about the New England Weavers Seminar Click the link button for N.E.W.S.

Tony Kormos, a Cranberry member, will talk about her life in weaving, with a focus on herexperience with HGA’s Certificateof Excellence.Tony will be bringing a “trunk show” of the many samples, notebooks and major pieces she made on her journey to the Certificate

of Excellence. In addition, she will be bringing some of the pieces she made subsequent to

the award. Be sure to come and see Tony’s magnificent work, which has been featured in books

and magazines. Tony started as a potter but when she first saw a loom, she fell in love

She worked for and gained the Weaver’s Guild of Boston Master

Weaver designation. She wanted to do more and HGA had recently

introduced the Certificate of Excellence program. Tony was among the first group of people to

receive their COE. Her specialized study was in Hand Manipulated Lace Weaves. Two years

later, she received a second COE by completing another specialized study. This time her subject was Dyeing Wool with Acid Dyes. Now, HGA has a special COE for Dyeing, but that didn’t exist

at the time.

She is a long-time member of the Weavers Guild of Rhode Island.

Cranberry Weavers Guild exhibit of the jackets woven by members . These photos were taken by C. Wooten at the New England Weavers Seminar held in July 2003

MEMBERS PHOTO GALLERY

Carol's First place award winning jacket NEWS 2003

Programs

and meeting dates- September 2009-May 2010

October 21, 2009–

— Norma Smayda: The Life and Work of Bertha

Gray Hayes and her Connection to Cranberry Founders

Norma Smayda will show a Powerpoint presentation entitled“The Life and work of Bertha Gray Hayes and her connection to Claire Chrostowski

and Isabel Boan, founders of the Cranberry Country Weavers Guild.”Bertha Gray Hayes, a Providence, RI weaver in the early 20th

century, designed and wove dozens of original miniature overshot patterns, 72 of which were known and another 20 which

were recently discovered. Her patterns are distinctive in their asymmetry, in her use of evoking the World War II era with patriotic

themes, songs and dances, in her use of name drafting.

The four authors are indebted to Claire Chrostowski and Isabel Boan for their foresight in sending Miss Hayes’ written and

woven work to the Weaver’s Guild of RI. The authors worked together gathering material from

Miss Hayes’ 72 original samples, uniquely mounted onto cards, and from her workbooks and journals, to write Weaving Designs

by Bertha Gray Hayes: Miniature Overshot Patterns, published by Schiffer in 2009.October 21 — Norma Smayda: The Life and Work of Bertha

Gray Hayes and her Connection to Cranberry Founders

Warp Painting Workshop at Prochemical and Dye in April 2005

Hope Pike

1908-2006

Jane, Ro and Gwyn at Convergence 2006 , Michigan

Photos from past NEW ENGLAND WEAVERS SEMINARS

Carol and her First Place award winning shawl

Nancy and Florrie at NEWS 2005

Key note speaker, Anita Meyer and Nancy R. discussing dye techniques at the Pro Chem booth 2005 at Merrimack College

Our Annual June Picnic 2005

November 18 , 2009 Annual Holiday Party

Celebrate the holidays and friendship with Guild members. A hands-on short program on Making a wrapped ornament frame (looks like it was woven

but wrapped). Bring a 2x3 or 2x2 photo of an event or person, grandchild, for example, for the ornament’s center.

We will again celebrate the holiday season by each bringing a food dish to share, and a hand made gift to swap in our Annual

Gift Share portion of the day’s program.

What to Bring:

• Scissors & scotch tape

• A ball of “Aunt Lydia’s” (or

what ever name) crochet cotton,

(the white with gold metallic works especially well), or any 10/2 cotton in holiday colors, for the wrapping. One

ball of Aunt Lydia’s crotchet / cotton, will yield 2 ornaments.each ornament uses

approximately 50 yards.

• The photo as mentioned

above

• Other materials, i.e. the

wrapping surface, will be

provided.

Also bring :

• A handcrafted gift WRAPPED to swap

• Food to feed at least 4 friends

• Your own plate, silverware, napkin, utensils for serving your dish

• Holiday Cheer and Friendship.

Please remember that there is no meeting in December, Enjoy your holidays!

The details of the programs of January-May 2010 will appear in the January 2010 E- Newsletter

January 20, 2010 –

February 17,2010 -

March 17, 2010–

April 21,2010

May 19, 2010

Carol's Temari adventures after our guild program "Temari Temptations" in November 2006

Kathy helping Betty take her fabric off the loom

September 16 2009

held at Smith College, Northampton, MA July 2009

JULY 2007

The New England Weavers' Seminar was held at Smith College in Northampton, MA

Ro Spinelli, Nancy Perry, Rita Steinbach, and Carol Wooten After the Runway Fashion Show

Ro, Nancy and Carol on the "runway".

Carol with her "BEST IN SHOW" award jacket

part of the Faculty Exhibit

Bycretia Chase's Pin jacket , titled: "Brest Color Pink", (middle) is Woven and has a handpainted lining.

Maureen Chapman's award winning tablecloth

___ Judy Goodwin presents Pipe Dreams

— Pat Morton speaks on Loom Weaving with Plants

—Field trip to Slater Mill, Pawtucket, RI. Tour of three buildings and visitor center

offerings, including history movie. Details to come in E- NEWSLETTER

—Rita Steinbach—topic to be announced

—Annual meeting

plus program to be announced and a look back at 2009-2010 Program Highlights

Lucretia tells us about her life in weaving

Judy at her loom.

Florrie, Lida and Avis checking out some items at a meeting

Becky from Becky's Vav Stuga, Shelburn Falls, MA

Ro and Joia during the 3-day

60 mile walk for breast cancer research

Last August

Adele teaching us about weaving with Paper-Shifu

Betty at her loom.

Adele with Nancy (and Tony

spinning paper

The New England Weavers Seminar 2009

Detail of Carol's award winning jacket

Carol's Hand dyed warp vest entry

Winter white triangular shawl woven by Ro

Skirt woven by Nancy

Some of our members at lunch at NEWS

Cranberry's Guild Exhibit "Weaving GREEN"

By the end of the Fashion Awards at this year's NEWS, Carol Wooten , had earned enough points to be named "WEAVER OF DISTINCTION". This is a very high honor in our weaving circles. Congratulatioins Carol!

This Award is well deserved!