The WARP Blog

We are thrilled to roll out our new website! weavearealpeace.org – home of all things WARP – has undergone a major overhaul. The new website has many valuable resources, and we are outlining some of the exciting highlights here.

Threads of Connection: Exploring the Local to Global Textile Community

JULY 13-16, KENT STATE UNIVERSITY, OHIO

WARP’s Annual Meeting brings members together for education, fellowship, and networking.

With over 500 WARP members living and working in textile communities around the world, this exhibition showcases a diversity of artistic creations and traditions from Argentina, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Laos, Lebanon, Mexico, Morocco, Uganda, the United States, and more.

Mark your calendars! We already have dates set for WARP’s 2024 Annual Meeting.

The Annual Meeting is the reason WARP formed in the first place. We KNEW we wanted to get together, to make sense of what we were all doing, inspired and helped by the experience and wisdom of others. INGLÉS/ESPAÑOL

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