Fiber events

For more info and textile event leads around the San Francisco Bay Area, check out our guide to SF Fiber Resources.

Fuzzy sponsors a regular spinning group at the Park branch library in San Francisco.

Check out our guide to San Francisco fabric stores for the fiber-tourist.

And while we're on tourism, here is also a guide to Paris textile resources.

But meanwhile, I've been newsletter person for Blacksheep Handweavers www.textilelinks.com/blacksheep for a while, and as such I maintain a list of events in the Bay Area. Let me try to keep this page in synch, since this much work is better shared on a wider basis :-).

Sep 3: The Dairy Barn Southeastern Ohio Cultural Arts Center in Athens, Ohio is requesting artist submissions for Quilt National 2005. The entry form and guidelines are available on the Quilt National website, www.quiltnational.com. For more info contact (740) 592-4891 www.dairybarn.org

till Sep 4: Faultline studio artists faultlinestudioartists@fearlessart.com are having a show of art quilts and fiber arts. Includes one of our favorites, Claudia Comay. Falkirk Cultural Center in San Rafael.

Sept 12: Spinners Day at the Park, Ragle Ranch Park, Sebastopol, 11am to 4pm, potluck lunch. Information and maps: (707) 874-3374 or www.saxelrod.com

Sept 14, 5:30-7:30: Artist reception for Julia Parker, Native American (Kashaya Pomo & Coast Miwok) basketmaker. Co-sponsered by CCAC. Show at the Bedford Gallery in Walnut Creek till October 31st. www.bedfordgallery.org

Ragle Ranch Park, Sebastopol, 11am to 4pm, potluck lunch. Information and maps: (707) 874-3374 or www.saxelrod.com

Sept 17-19 California Wool and Fiber Festival at the Apple Faire, Boonville. A nice mellow time in the country, with good camping nearby. Lots of real sheep, and shearing demonstrations, beside a good array of vendors (and an entire county fair for diversion). www.fiberfestival.com

Oct 2-3: Natural Fiber Fair, Red natural dye exchange exhibit, workshops every hour. $5 entry/ Mateel Community Center, Redway (near Garberville) naturalfiberfair@yahoo.com (707) 777-3918

Oct 2: Book Arts Jam at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills. More than 50 artists exhibiting.

Oct 6-9: The Ninth Biennial Symposium of the Textile Society of America will be held at the Oakland Convention Center. There will be presentations on textiles from all parts of the world by scholars and producers. Woven around the theme, "Appropriation, Acculturation, Transformation." TSA encourages presentations on textiles from all parts of the globe and from all disciplines including, but not limited to, anthropology, archaeology, art, art history, conservation, cultural geography, design, economics, history, linguistics, theatre, and the physical and social sciences.

Oct 22-26: Susie Hodges, the woman who taught the entire Bay Area to knit and spin at Straw Into Gold over the years, will be hosting her Knitting Retreat at the Coupeville Art Center in Washington. www.coupevillearts.org (360) 678-3396

Apr 14-17, 2005: CNCH, at the Asilomar conference center in Pacific Grove. The format will be 2 ½ day workshops. It is now seeking instructor proposals for these workshops: contact Kathy Alexander (408) 398-3456 kathyaa@sbcglobal.net

Sep 5-10 2005: Tinctoria, an international conference on natural dyes in Devon. Organized by Natural Dyes International