Liz Moncrief, ANWG Education Director, is now scheduling a monthly movie night to be staged on the Zoom platform. The ‘movies’ are not full features of course but snippets (some long some short) which highlight our shared interests in weaving, spinning, fiber plants/animals/tools and as many other categories as we can come up with. She currently has 30+ links in her list for our lineup and will try to mix it up each month so that all members will find something of interest.
Movie Bites will run from 6:30 pm – 8:00 Pacific Time Zone, which accommodates most ANWG members. Grab your popcorn, weaving, knitting, spinning and join us. We’re hoping it’ll be a fun new venture.
Coming Up. . .
Hey all, I’ve just set a date of Tuesday October 28 at 630 – 8 pm PT, for the October Movie Bites. As promised, I’m trying to find weaving and fiber-centric videos for our region and have found a good one on Pendleton Blankets, history, and the mill. I would bet that many of us have at least one. They were a favorite wedding gift for many years. And, I found a second Video that we’ll see. It features a small family owned woolen mill in Carstairs, Alberta. It’ll be an all woolen mill-evening.
Here is your link for the zoom and it’s been requested that I send out a few reminders between now and then, so I’ll do that. Please, as always, send this to your guild members to get the message out. THANKS and happy fall. Pull out your woolies!
Liz
ANWG is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting – October Movie Bites.
Time: Oct 28, 2025 06:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/99834576067?pwd=XZfQ013RIbbMnsayQtmbm8ssDIXVJM.1
Past Screenings
September, 24, 2025: Schmidt House History Talks – Coast Salish Wool Weaving at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2A2H5yMBkA. Weaving the Path | Explore Canada at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuGIgFyYhfw. Not shown, but mentioned: Coast Salish Weaving – The Fabric of Canada, available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD7dohIz8Lw.
May 21, 2025: Dyer Trudi Pollard was featured in 2 videos. The first is an interview with Trudi from The Calista Show, and the second is a program called “Captured by Colour: Introduction to Natural Dyes” featuring Trudi talking about natural dyeing.
https://youtu.be/otytf1fm0r4
https://youtu.be/467J41gx2Tk
April 16, 2025: Presentation by Nicholas Fox Weber from the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation for the Case Memorial Library in Orange, CT about the artists Josef and Anni Albers. Available on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ODyKp-6RKY.
March 19, 2025: Patrice George presentation titled “From the PC to the TC: A VERY Short History of Digital Design for Woven Textiles”, tracing the history of digital weaving technology. https://youtu.be/6go9aR7pvDE?si=ceRHAcHP__6fLZWF
February 19, 2025: Textile Magicians. Available on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0bd0txXzB8
January 22, 2025: Mastercrafts, a BBC series on crafts in the modern age. Video is in 4 parts on Youtube:
Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHjvzOEbWd8
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It0ZU4MG9Jg
Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHg1WdG4ClU
Part 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LulSgwzuTuc