Warp&Weft Contents Contact details 2 Editorial 3 Meeting reports: September - Jun Tomita 4 October - William Jefferies 6 Nov - Tim Parry Williams 9 Feature: Michael Williams 12 Devoré Workshop 15 Shades of Autumn 16 Future meetings 19 Membership news 20 What's On 22 Summer School 24 Colour theory courses 25 DeMorgan Centre 26 Library 28 Association news 29 Hip haberdashery 30 The Newsletter of the London Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers Issue 228 December 2007 London Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers Warp and Weft Issue 228 www.londonguildofweavers.org.uk President Daphne Ratcliffe -
[email protected] 020 8997 0291 Vice Presidents Aileen Kennedy Nancy Lee Child Mary Smith Executive Committee: Officers Chair - Jenifer Midgley
[email protected] 020 8892 4708 (and interim Treasurer) Secretary - Ann Brooks
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[email protected] 020 8446 3418 Programme Secretary - Marianne Medcalf
[email protected] 07800 839082 Editor of Warp & Weft - Theresa Munford
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[email protected] 020 8673 4914 Front cover: The Wool Winder 1865 by Jean Jules Bernard Salmson in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek Museum, Copenhagen. Photo by Kalpana Chari Page 2 December 2007 Editorial much for the ‘hip’ generation as the hip-replacement generation. In Chinese, the word for ‘edit’ is This issue of Warp and Weft could the same as the word for ‘weave’, and almost be called the ‘Men’s Issue’ while working on my first edition (who says men can’t do textiles!).