57 shapes have arrived so far

57 shapes have arrived so far from all over the world for the international tapestry project, Fate, Destiny and Self Determination. Have you sent yours? So far I have received shapes from

Antje Goldflam, CT, USA  

Anton Venstra, Australia                                              

Bernard Ossant, France                                                 

Christine Pradel-Lien, France                                      

Chung-Ja Jackson, Ontario, Canada                          

Dorothy Clews, Australia                                              

Elaine Duncan, BC, Canada                                           

Francois Seguin, Ontario, Canada                              

Ixchel Suarez, Ontario, Canada                                                  

Janet Austin, Rhode Island, USA                                               

Judite Vagners, Ontario, Canada                                               

Judy Dominic, Ohio USA                                                                

Judy Kogan, Argentina                                                   

Karen Piegorsch, Arizono, USA                                  

Kate Kitchen, Ontario Canada                                    

Katia Wittock, Belgium                                                   

Katie Russell, Scotland                                                   

Kirsten Glasbrook, UK                                                    

Liv Pedersen, Alberta, Canada                                   

Louise Lemieux Berube, Quebec , Canada            

Mai Liis Toomes, Ontario, Canada                             

Mary Lane, Washington, USA                                     

Maximo Laura, Peru                                                       

Melanie Siegel, Ontario, Canada                                               

Merna Strauch, California, USA                                  

Michael F. Rohde, California, USA                             

Myrna Lindstrom, BC, Canada                                    

Pat Scholz, Australia,                                                      

Sharon Smith, Ohio, USA                                              

Sofia Verna, Umbria, Italy                                                          

Stella Tang, Ontario Canada                                         

Stephanie Cantoni, West Australia                           

Susan Middleton, Ontario, Canada                           

Therese Jarry, Blaison, France                                    

Tricia Goldberg, California, USA                                                 

Janet Austin from Rhode Island USA. 

Tommye Scanlin is teaching at the very reputable Penland School of Craft  http://www.penland.org/ where she will be offering participants the chance to weave some shapes for the international tapestry project, Fate, Destiny and Self Determination. She also has a post about a Fireside tapestry loom for sale: http://tapestryshare.blogspot.ca/2013/07/a-beautiful-fireside-traditional.html. A few summers ago, Tommye studied tapestry weaving at West Dean in Chichester, England. 

Myrna Lindstrom, British Columbia, Canada. 

The American Tapestry Alliance invites all tapestry artists to submit works to American Tapestry Biennial 10.  Entry to ATB 10 is open to all tapestry artists who design and weave their own tapestries (defined as “hand-woven, weft-faced fabric with discontinuous wefts”), either individually or collaboratively (all assistants shall be named). Multimedia work will be considered as long as the primary medium is tapestry. Entries must be one-of-a-kind and have been completed after January 2010. Entries may not have been shown previously in any ATA exhibition, including the Unjuried Small Format show. Artists may submit up to three pieces, but a maximum of one piece per artist will be accepted
 http://americantapestryalliance.org/exhibitions/atbiennials/american-tapestry-biennial-10/

Chung-Ja Jackson, Ontario Canada

 Chung-Ja Jackson from the Burlington Handweavers and Spinners, Burlington, Ontario Canada. See her tapestry work featured here: www.oakvilletapestrystudio.blogspot.ca/2011/12/featured-memberchung-ja-jackson.htm. She also did the shape below. 

A really great write up about the different ways we weave tapestries by Rebecca Mezoff: 
http://rebeccamezoff.blogspot.ca/2013/07/tapestry-weaving-differently.html

Remember way back in the spring I found this photocopy stuck in the photocopy machine? Clare Coyle tracked down the book it was in:

10:06am May 24

The full title is "Master Weavers -Tapestry from the Dovecot Studios 1912 - 1980. The image is I'd the first tapestry they wove in 1912. It's not available on Amazon uk but just been on the US site and it seems to be available 2nd hand I think from around $15 dollars or so which seems a bargain! I'll post o photo of the page in the catalogue it is from as there is an actual photo of the man they used as a model - it states " James Roddick, the night watchman modelling for a figure in Lord of the Hunt". He doesn't look a very happy chappy! Lol. Published by Canongate press in Edinburgh around 1980, so no ISBN no.
Clare