Guild Calendar
Thursday, November 14, 2024 – November Meeting
Multnomah Arts Center + Zoom, 7688 SW Capitol Hwy. (503) 823-2787
All meetings are free and open to the public
10:00 am Day Meeting – Auditorium
9:30 am – 10:00 am: Set up, social time and library browsing time
10:00 am – 12:00: Meeting
7:00 pm Evening Meeting – Room 30 (Senior Center)
6:30 pm – 7:00 pm: set up, social and library browsing time
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm: Meeting
Thursday, November 21, 2024 – New Weaver Forum
10:00 am – 12:00 pm – Zoom
See the website for study group meetings.
Baby Wolf For Sale
You may have heard that PHG is getting a new Wolf Pup for demos. This means we need to find room in the closet. So we are going to put the Baby Wolf up for sale. To give everyone an equal opportunity to adopt the Baby Wolf, the board has agreed to have an online auction!
The Baby Wolf will be sold As Is. It has seen some hard use and will need some TLC. You can inspect the loom at either November meeting, morning or evening. Bidding will close on November 21 at Noon Pacific Time. The winner will be notified by email and will receive an invoice for payment by credit card or PayPal.
Included with the Baby Wolf:
- 1 Reed, 25”, 10 dent
- Raddle
- Wolf Trap
- Lease Sticks
- Extra Apron Rod
- 17 Warp Sticks, 26”
Bidding will be done by adding a comment to this page with your name, email address, and bid amount in the comments. The minimum bid is $350. If the person with the highest bid is unable to complete the transaction by December 10 the guild will accept the next highest bid.
Help Wanted for Meeting A/V Setup
The guild is looking for people to help with the A/V setup for our monthly meetings. We’ll provide training and documentation. You’ll need to provide some time to learn the system and then come early for meeting setup, a little bit of muscle to carry the equipment to and from the closet, and a modicum of technical know-how. Experience with Macs is a plus, but if you’re comfortable with computers this shouldn’t be too challenging.
Dan will be at MAC at 9 AM this Thursday to show anyone interested how it all works. Or you can contact Dan for details and a copy of the documentation if interested.
P.S. You do not need to setup BOTH meetings. If you can only help with one meeting a month that would be a big help! We hope to have a few folks trained so there’s a backup in case someone is sick or out of town.
Don’t Forget the New Weaver Forum Next Week
PHG provides a wonderful community to weavers and fiber artists, but for those new to the craft it can sometimes be intimidating to look at our program topics. New weavers are often looking for a place where they can gather with other new weavers and learn from each other, and from a friendly artist who’s been at it for a while. To help address that need we’re introducing the New Weaver Forum. These sessions will be held on the third Thursday of each month, initially via Zoom. If the interest is strong enough (and we think it will be) we’ll look to add an in-person meeting space for the group just as we do with our study groups.
Our second session for this new group will be held Thursday, November 21 at 10:00. If you’re a new weaver we hope you’ll join us. If you know of a new weaver please help spread the word and let them know. The Zoom link to join is https://zoom.us/j/2290207971?pwd=elJvd2w0L2NsMlJPZXhNM3JlTFphZz09.
PHG Spring Sale / Gathering of the Guilds Registration Now Open
The PHG Spring Sale / Gathering of the Guilds will be held April 25 – 27, 2025 at the Oregon Convention Center Hall D. The registration and artist invitation/planning guide is on our website HERE. Please plan to register asap, payment is not due until March but we do need a count.
There are a couple of changes to note:
- PHG has kept the booth cost the same as 2024 but other guilds are struggling. The GOTG board has opened the event up to other guilds and so will begin to release any unsold booths from the 5 core guilds to guest guilds. If you are planning to participate, register ASAP so we can ensure we have our spots.
- The cost of the I5 lot went from $60 to $90. This rate is set by OCC. It is cheaper to park in the garage. At this point the GOTG board has determined the cost too high. We are working with OCC on options. If you are interested in a pass at $90, please let me know. I can’t guarantee a pass as at this point it is all or nothing e.g., we rent the entire 120 spaces or none.
- We will expand the PHG Guild booth to 10×20 as we had a lot of interest and a lot of goods. More space should allow for easy access to our art. More to come from the Guild booth chairs Denise and Kati
If there are any questions, please feel free to reach out to me.
Nora Gessert
734 395 1693
November Meeting & Program: Photographing & Styling Handwovens, by Elaine Palmer
Two 1-hour presentations, guild members are encouraged to watch both as each hour’s topics are discussed in more detail.
We photograph our handwovens for many reasons: to catalog our personal work, for submission to juried shows, to post on our websites or websites such as Etsy, and for printed publications. This talk discusses design and technical considerations when photographing and styling handwovens for different media. The talk includes discussion of studio lighting, outline vs. simple environment, and styling techniques Elaine used when photographing handwovens for the Weavers’ Guild of Boston’s 90th Anniversary book, Interlaced. There is also a discussion of how to shoot for Etsy and layout considerations when designing direct mail collateral and on-figure photo shoots. There will be a short demo of the lighting technique and styling at the end of the evening presentation.
(no supplies are needed)
Elaine Palmer has a BFA in Graphic Design from Kent State University. She was an on-figure and product Photo Art Director/Product Stylist/Producer during her professional career art directing on-location and in-studio advertisements and catalogues for 30 years for companies such as Eddie Bauer, Hang Ten, and
Nordstrom. As Sr. Producer managing all flat photography for the in-house photo studio for Nordstrom.com, she produced the first Nordstrom Style Guide for freelance stylists to ensure proper and consistent Nordstrom branding. Elaine moved to Amherst, MA, in July 2008 after living and raising a family in Seattle for 27 years. In 2013 she completed a four-year weaving course at Hill Institute. She enjoys weaving tea towels on her computerized 16S Toika and graphic images on her Ideal Glimakra converted to a single-unit drawloom. She and her husband relocated back to Seattle in the View Ridge neighborhood in 2021. Her professional experience as a Photo Art Director working in the fashion industry was an asset in photographing and styling handwovens for the Weavers’ Guild of Boston’s 90th Anniversary book, Interlaced.