Warp&Weft Contents Contact details 2 Editorial 3 Meetings: December - Competitions 18 February - Lucy Norris 5 Future Meetings 24 Features: Introducing: Prick Your Finger 7 Postcard from Downunder 13 Wetlands Wallhanging 15 Snow and Tell 16 Guild Summer Holiday 23 Regulars: Weave Study Group 10 Spinning Skills-sharing 11 Library News 20 Membership News 21 Guild News 25 AGM 2010 Agenda 28 What's On in Textiles 29 The Newsletter of the London Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers Issue 237 March 2010 Warp and Weft Issue 237 March 2010 London Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers Editorial feature on this London textile artist. And our ‘postcard’ this time comes www.londonguildofweavers.org.uk Today I pulled out the boxes of old from the antipodes, from a recent trip W&Ws that lie stashed in the depths Sonia Tindale made to Australia and President of my cupboard and searched through New Zealand. their yellowing pages for the March Now that winter might finally be Daphne Ratcliffe -
[email protected] 020 8997 0291 1963 edition. I was curious about nearly over, there are exhibitions how the Guild coped with that other to entice us on the road again, for Vice Presidents memorable winter. I must confess I example ‘Kaleidoscope’ opening in was also hoping to find that they’d Mansfield on 17 April (details p. 30) Aileen Kennedy had to cancel a meeting too, that and the exciting prospect of a Guild Nancy Lee Child we weren’t just 21st century softies. Summer School in Norfolk (p. 23). Mary Smith Sorry folks, we are! And should we get a freak snowstorm Melanie Venes I quote: 12 January 1963 or two in the coming months, then “In spite of the Siberian weather, a there’s always our exhibition in October Executive Committee: Officers large number packed themselves into and the December competitions (p.26) Room 4 in Church House…” to start working on.