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WeaveTech Archive 9902 From [email protected] Tue Mar 9 17:04:10 1999 Received: from optima.cs.arizona.edu by jupiter.CS.Arizona.EDU (5.65v4.0/1.1.8.2/08Nov94- 0446PM) id AA12094; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 17:01:52 -0700 Received: from salmon.esosoft.net ([email protected] [192.41.17.47]) by optima.cs.arizona.edu (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA06700 for <[email protected]>; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 17:01:05 -0700 (MST) Received: (salmon@localhost) by salmon.esosoft.net (8.8.5) id RAA22949; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 17:00:54 -0700 (MST) Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 17:00:54 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <[email protected]> To: [email protected] From: [email protected] Subject: Majordomo file: list 'weavetech' file 'weavetech.9902' Reply-To: [email protected] Status: R -- >From [email protected] Mon Feb 1 06:51:14 1999 Received: (salmon@localhost) by salmon.esosoft.net (8.8.5) id GAA00441; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 06:51:14 -0700 (MST) Received: from newmail.netbistro.com (newmail.netbistro.com [204.239.167.35]) by salmon.esosoft.net (8.8.5) id GAA00436; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 06:51:13 -0700 (MST) Received: (qmail 12238 invoked by alias); 1 Feb 1999 13:51:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 12230 invoked from network); 1 Feb 1999 13:51:14 -0000 Received: from ip139.dialup.pgonline.com (HELO setup) (204.239.167.139) by newmail.netbistro.com with SMTP; 1 Feb 1999 13:51:14 -0000 Message-ID: <002801be4dea$1c325820$8ca7efcc@setup> From: "Darlene Mulholland" <[email protected]> To: "weavetech" <[email protected]> Subject: co-op gallery- got rather long! Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 05:51:36 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2110.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sender: [email protected] Precedence: bulk Reply-To: [email protected] I don;t want to rain on anyone's parade but I've had a slightly less than positive experience with a co-op gallery. Just my experience and it could be very isolated. The gallery which showed my work was run mainly by painters and I was sort of an associate member . I found they did not 'sell' but rather sat all day and didn't even greet customers who entered the gallery unless they knew them personally. No surprise that some of my work was shop lifted. I did have sales but pulled out after the last shop lifting incident. The group running the gallery were all great artists but a gallery is a retail store no matter what you call it and you must have people skills and be outgoing in order to maximize your selling opportunities. This group has had two galleries and both have closed due to lack of sales. No surprise to me. Selling and running a store call for skills and training that do not necessarily coincide with producing a great produce. Whether you paint, weave, or pot you are still producing a product. The gallery will be competing with other professional sales establishments in a market place. I know in my area the economy is a bit tough right now so one - 1 - WeaveTech Archive 9902 has to really market their work to keep a share of the consumer dollar. I currently sell out of my studio, do juried craft shows, rent a display case at a major hotel downtown, have a web site and sell through a local boutique on consignment. Fortunately I have a really great relationship with the boutique and they buy some work outright and take a lot of orders for me as well. I think you have to take a number of approaches to marketing in order to successfully sell your work. Of course, in ones 'spare' time it is also necessary to develop new and different products. No wonder I don't find this boring - I'm having way too much fun! Darlene Mulholland [email protected] http://www.pgmoneysaver.bc.ca/weaving/ To reply privately, send message to "Darlene Mulholland" <[email protected]> >From [email protected] Mon Feb 1 07:29:28 1999 Received: (salmon@localhost) by salmon.esosoft.net (8.8.5) id HAA07341; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 07:29:28 -0700 (MST) Received: from mailbox.syr.edu ([email protected] [128.230.18.5]) by salmon.esosoft.net (8.8.5) id HAA07327; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 07:29:26 -0700 (MST) Received: from Room215.syr.edu (syru2-042.syr.edu [128.230.2.42]) by mailbox.syr.edu (8.9.2/8.9.2) with SMTP id JAA18508 for <[email protected]>; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 09:29:29 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 09:29:29 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <[email protected]> X-Sender: [email protected] X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: [email protected] From: Allen Fannin <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Rayon Sender: [email protected] Precedence: bulk Reply-To: [email protected] At 05:18 PM 1/31/99 EST, you wrote: > 1) Can anyone tell me the shrinkage rate expected when weaving yardage >using rayon yarn? 2) What if using rayon/cotton blend as in a fancy rayon >slub wrapped with cotton as weft and cotton as warp? REPLY: The only answer to both these questions: There is no simple answer since the questions as posed do not contain sufficient parameters on which to base an answer. There are so many, many factors other than fibre content alone which influence shrinkage rate that in truth the only way to accurately determine the rate with a specific yarn is to do a sample and maintain accurate before and after records. AAF ALLEN FANNIN, Adjunct Prof., Textile Science ECR Department 224 Slocum Hall College for Human Develpment Syracuse University Syracuse, New York 13244-1250 Phone: (315) 443-1256/4635 FAX: (315) 443-2562 - 2 - WeaveTech Archive 9902 E-mail: <[email protected]> Web: http://syllabus.syr.edu/TEX/aafannin To reply privately, send message to Allen Fannin <[email protected]> >From [email protected] Mon Feb 1 07:31:16 1999 Received: (salmon@localhost) by salmon.esosoft.net (8.8.5) id HAA07863; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 07:31:16 -0700 (MST) Received: from edtnps05.telusplanet.net (edtnps05.telusplanet.net [198.161.157.105]) by salmon.esosoft.net (8.8.5) id HAA07857; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 07:31:15 -0700 (MST) Received: from edtntnt1-port-177.agt.net ([161.184.192.177]:1113 "HELO pmarriot") by edtnps05.telusplanet.net with SMTP id <525441-5196>; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 07:24:09 -0700 Message-ID: <000101be4dee$e9e66be0$b1c0b8a1@pmarriot> From: "Pamela Marriott" <[email protected]> To: "weave tech" <[email protected]> Subject: another question Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 07:26:52 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: [email protected] Precedence: bulk Reply-To: [email protected] Hi all, Okay, I am thinking of putting a computer driven dobby unit on my colonial loom. I have a dumb question. I have never used a CAL before and the only ones I have seen are in pictures and working on a video. So if you have a warp on that you are playing with and want to do a variety of treadlings you must enter them in the program right? the treadles are gone so that is not an option.....Is this a big pain? I am still wavering between putting this unit on my loom or saving another gazillion years and buying a stand alone unit. I do not know what to do... Pamela Pamela Marriott Dancing Sheep Studio Weaving & Graphics Swan Hills, Alberta, Canada [email protected] To reply privately, send message to "Pamela Marriott" <[email protected]> >From [email protected] Mon Feb 1 07:36:41 1999 Received: (salmon@localhost) by salmon.esosoft.net (8.8.5) id HAA09075; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 07:36:41 -0700 (MST) Received: from aeroinet4.aeroinc.net (mail.aeroinc.net [208.247.248.6]) by salmon.esosoft.net (8.8.5) id HAA09053; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 07:36:39 -0700 (MST) X-Authentication-Warning: salmon.esosoft.net: Host mail.aeroinc.net [208.247.248.6] claimed to be aeroinet4.aeroinc.net Received: by aeroinet4.aeroinc.net with MERCUR-SMTP/POP3/IMAP4-Server (v3.00.15 AS- 0098310) for <[email protected]> at Mon, 1 Feb 99 07:56:51 +-600 Message-Id: <[email protected]> X-Sender: [email protected] X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (16) Mime-Version: 1.0 - 3 - WeaveTech Archive 9902 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: [email protected] From: "keating/weaver's croft" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Co-op Gallery Date: Mon, 1 Feb 99 07:56:51 +-600 Sender: [email protected] Precedence: bulk Reply-To: [email protected] hi ingrid et al., had no idea i needed this info 'til i read it.