The WARP Blog

We asked Lesli Robertson to write a follow-up to last month’s Continuing Textile Traditions Panel Presentation on Ugandan Barkcloth. We had so many wonderful questions and wanted to answer some we couldn’t get to that day. INGLÉS/ESPAÑOL

Until COVID, WARP held an annual meeting in a different location each year. Having to cancel the meeting planned for Bozeman, Montana in 2020 was a huge disappointment, and we are now so excited to be gathering together again, this time just south of Cleveland, Ohio. We hope you will join us in July, and here are reasons to consider it. INGLÉS/ESPAÑOL

Churro Week grew out of a collaboration of shepherds, a mill owner, a Navajo-Churro Sheep breeder/restorer of the endangered species, an extension agent, end users, a marketing consultant, and various interested parties. They were concerned with finding a job for the Navajo-Churro sheep. INGLÉS/ESPAÑOL

Exhibitions of the Migrant Quilt and COVID Quilt projects at museums of the Arizona Historical Society remind us of other times fiber artists have come together to make their voices heard. INGLÉS/ESPAÑOL

We are mostly “chronologically-qualifying-old women”, with a small percentage of men, and a rising tide of new younger members. I smile a little thinking that when WARP started 30 years ago, most of us who were at those first meetings WERE in our 30s and 40s. BUT that was 30 years ago, and now we need to bring in new young members to “move the molecules around the room”. INGLÉS/ESPAÑOL

Espace Fann is a creative school in Beirut, Lebanon offering skill building and design thinking courses at university level. We are not accredited and do not provide degrees, but the instruction we offer is curriculum-based and our teachers are all university professors. This formula keeps our prices low, our classes accessible to all, and our material serious and empowering. INGLÉS/ESPAÑOL 

When I first came back onto the board in May of 2021, one of my simple ideas went something like this: Hey, wouldn’t it be cool to have a list of books written by WARP members on the website? INGLÉS/ESPAÑOL

By Judy Newland. As a longtime spinner and weaver – and a mother – this is a story that reflects a love many of us share. It may sweep you away to another time when mothers created piles of beautiful blankets for their daughters, carrying the name l’amour de maman, a mother’s love. They were made of white and brown cotton with occasional indigo dyed yarns, a beautiful tribute to women, fiber and family. INGLÉS/ESPAÑOL