Weaving in South America - Laverne Waddington
Laverne Waddington addressing a group in Sacramento CA on Weaving in South America
On Thursday April 4, Laverne Waddington gave a presentation on behalf
of the Sacramento Weavers and Spinner Guild. The subject is Weaving in
South America. The venue is Generations Church in MidTown Sacramento,
Calif.
Members and guests of Sacramento Weavers and Spinners Guild listening to Laverne.
The Thursday night presentation is different schedule than the usual daytime meetings, but members and guests came out to hear Laverne's presentation. Far right on the above picture is Rachel, who drove all the way from Berkeley!
Watching pictures and videos while Laverne explains what we're seeing.
Laverne travels have taken her from one end of South America to the
other, from Chile to Ecuador. She describes differences in fiber uses of
the Highlands (wool, llama, alpaca) and the Lowlands (cotton). She
showed some of the differences in patterns. Patterns can be unique from
village to village, and from country to country. Looms and equipment are
variable. While Laverne is expert in backstrap weaving, she also showed
us pictures of ground looms, vertical looms and others.
Laverne had to sit in the back juggling mouse and microphone with her laptop computer plugged into the projectors.
Laverne had to sit in the back of church with her laptop plugged into
the church projectors. Laverne speaks very clearly, and is adept at
pronouncing the names of products, peoples and tribes in languages that
reach back hundreds of years. When she speaks English she has a little
trouble when her Australian accent gets in the way of her tongue.
After the video presentation, Laverne answers a few questions.
After the pictures and videos Laverne sat down and answered questions. It
was a wonderful presentation and I'm grateful that Sacramento Weavers
and Spinners Guild invited her to come to Sacramento. I'm also grateful
to Generations Church in Sacramento CA for letting us use the meeting
room for the evening presentation. Special thanks to Darren for hooking
up the projectors and microphone for us.
This coming Saturday and Sunday some lucky weavers will have a two day
workshop in Backstrap Weaving taught by Laverne Waddington.
It was a good day!
Links of interest
http://backstrapweaving.wordpress.com/
Sacramento Weavers and Spinners Guild http://www.sacweavespin.org Generations Church (formerly Capitol Foursquare Church) http://www.capitolfoursquare.org/