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School of Rio Grande Weaving Traditions
The School
of Rio Grande Weaving Traditions
has been set up as a non-profit entity affiliated with Tierra Wools. Tierra Wools makes looms and teaching
space available to the School. As
before, master weavers work under the School Director to provide an
intimate, interactive experience for students. Overall this will meet the missions of
both Tierra Wools and the Weaving School more effectively. Tierra Wools provides both economic
and human development by providing training and experience, especially
for women, in both business management and the art of weaving. Tierra Wools’ member-owners feel
that this change will open up greater opportunities which benefit others
and feel that this decision helps accomplish these goals.
We educate both weavers and the general public about
the weaving heritage in Northern New Mexico and
serve our community with projects that strengthen weaving’s role in
revitalizing our culture and economy.
Through tours, classes, public speaking, media interviews, videos
and talking with customers, Tierra Wools has taken on the responsibility
for educating the public about the Spanish weaving tradition.
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Apprentices
We have
two new weaving apprentices this year, Kaye Sullivan, and Nancy Sullivan. We have one new Natural Dye
apprentice, Amilia Elliott
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Just sheared ewes care for their days old lambs in
the Manzanares' spring lambing range west of
Taos
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DVD Release The
film “Rebirth of A Tradition” was re-released this fall on
DVD. This film was originally
released in 1992 on VHS. It has
been reformatted and released on DVD both for sale and for marketing purposes
with the assistance of the original filmmaker, Wayne Scheiner. Copies are available for $25 plus
shipping and sales taxes (if applicable).
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Teri Garci won 2nd
place in the Hispanic Arts category at the New Mexico State Fair. Her entry was a 4x6 Rio Grande Natural
Dyed tapestry. She is our only
winner this year. A bevy of
ribbons for many of our weavers
have been won from prior years, including 2006.
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Erica Velasquez
weaves wallhangings.
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The Taos Wool
Festival runs the first weekend in October yearly. As always, Tierra Wools will be there
to participate. Please join us and
all of the other fiber artisans in Taos
on Saturday and Sunday.
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Los Ojos Handweavers, LLC
TD Burns Building
On March 2nd, 1999, we
completed the purchase of our 140 year old adobe building from Ganados del Valle, the nonprofit that helped Tierra
Wools get started. This has been a long time goal that will mean a more
stable future for our weavers, spinners and growers. This will allowed us
to expand our display space, make better space for classes, add to our
all year dye setup and make a more permanent space for photographing
weavings for our web site. We wish to thank all the Ganados
Board members who worked to make this possible, as well as Ganados Executive Director Doug Spence. We also want
to thank our own workers and investors who helped raise the money for the
down payment, attorney, title and survey costs.
Funds are still needed to preserve
this historic building. The Roof
Fund has been established to make the necessary repairs to the existing
structure. If you can donate to
this fund, please contact Sophia DeYapp at 888-709-0979.
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Tracy and Norma get started dyeing
on a bright winter morning.
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Lupe Gathering Herbs for Dyeing
Photo
Lorne Matalon 2007
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Teri’s
Ribbons
Photo
Lorne Matalon 2007
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