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 theWest 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: March 8, 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.
Garbage Warps, AKA, Cleaning Out Your Yarn Closet – Beth Guertin
Bio – Beth Cederberg Guertin has been a weaver for more than thirty years, and has a strong local and regional reputation for her knowledge and support of weaving and the fiber arts. She has been involved with teaching weaving for twenty one years, first through her store in Arlington (The Batik and Weaving Supplier), and now through her studio in Waltham.
Description - We all have partial cones of yarn, left over from previous projects, taking up valuable space in our yarn closets. Bring those yarns and let’s plan a project to use up the yarns (goal is that you use them up without buying any more yarn to weave the project). We’ll weigh the yarn, determine how many yards there are available, and then discuss options through stripes, plaids, 4 and 8 shaft drafts, combining textures, colors, and yarns; planned warps and random warps.. Samples will be shown. Participants will be able to go home to wind warps to use up their yarns.
Things to bring: • Bring leftover cones/skeins that you would like to use up. • On index cards or paper make an inventory of the yarns that you own and could use on this project in addition to the leftovers you are bringing to the class. Attach a sample with amounts (ounces/pounds), yards per pound, fiber content, etc. • Colored pencils • Paper for designing (plain or graph) • Calculator • McMorran yarn balance, if you have one
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 2008-May 2009
October 15, 2008–
Tapestry Weaving with Janet Austin
Bio - Janet Austin got hooked on weaving in 1972, at Massachusetts College of Art. Along the way she earned an MFA in Painting, and has taught in North Carolina and Rhode Island for over 30 years. She is Coordinator of Tapestry Weavers in New England (TWiNE) and on the Board of Directors of the American Tapestry Alliance.
Description - Tapestry; a huge pictorial hanging on the wall of a castle? The same tapestry techniques are used to create Navajo rugs, Turkish kilims, and many other gorgeous textiles. If you can weave a placemat, then you can weave a tapestry!
This program will give you a taste of contemporary tapestry weaving, introduce basic tapestry techniques, and discuss the types of yarns, looms and tools that work best. Designing for tapestry will also be touched on. Janet will demonstrate on a couple of different looms, and then we can all try it out.
Warp Painting Workshop at Prochemical and Dye in April 2005
Hope Pike
1908-2006
Jane, Ro and Gwyn at Convergence 2006 , Michigan
NEW ENGLAND WEAVERS SEMINAR JULY 2005 at Merrimack College
Carol and her First Place award winning shawl
Nancy and Florrie at NEWS
Key note speaker, Anita Meyer and Nancy R. discussing dye techniques at the Pro Chem booth
Our Annual June Picnic 2005
November 19 , 2008 Annual Holiday Party / The Best of Convergence Roundtable
Description - Didn’t get to Convergence? Not to worry. Cranberry members who attended will present a roundtable of “The Best of Convergence.” See what they learned without even having to get on a plane! After we have whetted your appetite, we’ll have our traditional holiday pot-luck lunch and swap for hand-made gifts. Please bring a hand crafted gift to share and a dish to feed four to six hungry weavers! ******************************
Please remember that there is no meeting in December, Enjoy your holidays!
The details of the programs of January-May 2009 will appear in the January 2009 Newsletter
January 21, 2009 – Scandinavian Weaving – Becky Ashenden
February 18 – Turned Drafts - Aija Kusins
March 18 – Fine Metal Weaving – Munya Avigail Upin
April 15 – Field Trip to Randall Darwall's Studio
May 20 - Annual meeting. News Guild Table Show.- Bring your finished woven pieces that will be displayed at our Cranberry
guild table show at the New WEngland Weavers Seminar.
Carol's Temari adventures after our guild program "Temari Temptations" in November 2006
Ellie rolling up her REP WEAVE placemats project
September 17 2008
held at Smith College, Northampton, MA July 2007
JULY 2007
The New England Weavers' Seminar was held at Smith College in Northampton, MA
Maureen Chapman's Repp Weave tote Which won two awards ,a First Place in Bags and a Special award, The Margaretta Ohberg Award for Technical Skill
Ro Spinelli won First prize in the Wall hangings catagory,with work entitled "NESTLED". This piece also was awarded a Special prize for best display of "Texture".
One wall of the Juried Gallery Exhibit, showing Ro Spinelli's entry and also Miki Lovett's framed tapestry on the right.
Cranberry's Guild exhibition on Repp Weave
Carol's warp painted "Red Evening Jacket" won several prizes including "Popular Choice award in the Fashion show. Carol's "Manderin Vest" also won a First Place !
Lucretia Chase's Pink jacket , titled: "Brest Color Pink", (middle) is Woven and has a handpainted lining.
Kathy and Miki (above) and Lucretia at the Scavenger Hunt and Party at WEBS, a great time was had by all. Members,Nancy Rodrigues and Connie Clark were on the scavenger Hunt's winning team.!
Maureen Chapman's award winning tablecloth
Munya Avigail Upin received a BFA from Drake University, an MA from San Diego State, and an MFA from California State Fullerton. She has taught college around the US, fulltime and part-time for over 20 years. In the Boston area, she has taught at Mass Art, the Museum School, and the De Cordova. She is currently teaching at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School. She has exhibited in over 130 shows, both nationally and internationally since 1974. She continues to do commission work for synagogues around the nation.
– Munya Avigail Upin makes exquisite metalwork, often using woven techniques. For our program, she will be showing slides of her work and those of her students. She will also share samples and finished pieces that use “woven” wire processes. Munya will show examples of twining (a traditional basketry technique), weaving (off loom), crocheting and more. She’ll also entertain any questions people might have and explain how she incorporates the wire textile techniques in her own work. To see Munya’s beautiful work, visit www.m-avigail-upin.com.
Lucretia tells us about her life in weaving
Judy at her loom.
Florrie, Lida and Avis checking out some items at a meeting
