MAINE VILLAGE WEAVER

New economy Stay home shows are a bummer By Phyllis Leck American Craft Council show was unacceptable. Why because the board members and staff have know idea what they are doing . As a 30 year veteran in the craft show industry and been through it all !This one takes the cake ! For starters folks ,you must see the show through both the crafters eyes and their needs and through the audience needs . Always promote the show as if it is the first time being seen by someone ,crafter or a attendee.   Well not at this show. The programs were printed different colors on the covers and you would expect them to have different info in each . Nope! They had the crafters name boldly highlighted and they had their craft and hopefully booth number printed in faint type. Now what’s the problem ? Well if you were looking for jewelry let’s say , you had know way of knowing how to find a jeweler .Walking the convention center aisle was a maize so the extra hand out was a map . Not all vend...

Hand Dyed Skeins  of yarns  ready So excited to be going to this show ! Taking with me are my OPEN WEAVE SHAWLS using the hand dyed skeins of yarn I did last summer They are all dyed with Knotweed  Knotweed is also called Japanese bamboo and is invasive. I mordant with rusty iron found in my husband s metal shop  This gives it a grayed down scale The skeins were dyed in the picture at different times of the growing season making the color different as the plants matured. OPEN WEAVE SHAWLS

Christmas time I decorate my weaving room with old antique shuttles .Top shuttle is from a factory fly shuttle ,second one down is a beautiful antique hand made carved  shuttle with years of wear and the third is a more recent hand shuttle missing its rod to hold the bib in . The little scrap of woven blue and white coverlet holds Christmas gifts a cinnamon stick ,pine cone and an old Santa Christmas card .  Maine Village Weaver Christmas

Maine Village Weaver is going to American Craft Council show in February 22-24 2019 with my fiber wearables Shawls and scarves ,also Asymmetrical wraps . www.mainevillageweaver.com Hope to see you there ! Lots of texture ,natural colors from my hand dyed collection and open weave. So wonderful to get out among the excitement of a show . New faces and ideas! Can’t wait 

Cobalt blue and off white valances  These hand woven valances  go with Blue Willow or Delft China  Pictured here is a kitchen in classic Maine tradition 

You can find these hand woven placemats on Etsy this spring ! Lively colors will go with any decor I was inspired to use these colors when I visited our daughter in Austin Tx . The colors down there were so vivid ! You can find them in my shop on Etsy click on  GO HERE  to be taken to my shop

 Article by James Goldsmith