Syne Mitchell operates WeaveCast, a podcasting service for weavers, out of Seattle, Washington USA. Pod casting is like a radio program that is "broadcast" over the Internet. This means that you can listen to the program on your computer or record it to listen to somewhere else: eg while weaving.

On July 13 her podcast Episode 17 was devoted to weaving periodicals. The Australian Hand Weaver & Spinner magazine was mentioned. Coincidentally, the journal is listed as a magazine on the online bookshop, Amazon for $US40.23, from Magazine Express Inc within the US. Previous podcast episodes have been devoted to weaving teachers, weaving for knitters, competency certificates, fine threads, rigid heddle, woven shibori and other topics of interest.

Podcasts require broadband access (42MB is the file size of Episode 17) and transcripts are available on the website which you can read on the screen or print.

For more information, go to www.weavecast.com

Posted by Prue Hill at 8:26 PM | Permalink

There is a new book available Handmade Style - Weave printed by Murdoch press and written by four current Guild members. The Guild bought copies which were available for members to buy at the August meeting. President Jenny Dunn asked the authors to talk about the experience at the August meeting.

Wendy Cartwright said that Murdoch press contacted the Arts Society of NSW with a request for some weavers to work with them on a book. They had, at times, purchased woven articles at the gallery and so asked for those weavers whose work they knew. The editor visited them and commissioned some items. Wendy resurrected a project which she had done years earlier and it became the basis of the explanations on weaving at the beginning of the book. She contacted Lynne Peebles asking her to participate because of her off loom weaving.

At first Lynne said no to being involved but they persisted and eventually she gave in and found the experience more enjoyable than she anticipated although she had to work frantically to meet deadlines.

Mary Hawkins became involved because someone from Murdoch press had bought a scarf of hers at the gallery. She had to work from a distance. Mary insisted, from the beginning, that there had to be some off loom weaving and so she contributed the triangle scarf project. She had to rush to complete her projects but she enjoyed the experience and she hopes that people will enjoy using the book.

Helen Frostell said that the people from Murdoch books were a delight to work with. Her advice is to keep records of weaving projects; that is what saved the day for her and allowed her to reproduce projects for the book.

Anne Miller was invited to take part but she has been working on another book, that we hope to see soon.

Posted by Prue Hill at 8:19 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)