Stratford-upon-Avon Guild of Weavers Spinners and Dyers

 JUNE MEETING - INSIDE THE MEDIEVAL WOOLHOUSE UPDATE:  Due to ill health Penelope is unable to join us now on Saturday.  We wish her all the best for a speedy recovery.  We hope Penelope will join us at a future meeting. Fortunately, Jill Shepherd has stepped in and offered to talk to us on The Domestication of Craft.  The talk explores  How and Why Domestic Handcraft Flourished in Our Homes over the Last 500 Years? It explores a wide-ranging view of handcraft as a marker of status and the cult of the hobby, and why the pursuit of handcrafting in the home was so important for women and children. .  Timings are as below. The June Guild meeting on Saturday, 19th June at 10.30 am, will be a Zoom talk by Penelope Hemmingway “Inside the Mediaeval Woolhouse, Spinning and Weaving in Mediaeval Monasteries.”  Screens open at 10.20, Anna will do notices at 10.30 and will introduce Penelope to give her talk at 10.50. After the talk there will be a s...

  WORLDWIDE KNIT IN PUBLIC - 12TH JUNE 2021 World Wide Knit in Public Day was started in 2005 by Danielle Landes. It began as a way for knitters to come together and enjoy each other’s company. Knitting is such a solitary act that it’s easy to knit alone somewhere and sink into your work without thinking about all the other knitters out there. Neighbors could spend all their lives never knowing that the other knits.  This a specific day to get out of your house and go to a local event (with your knitting in tow) just for you and people like you.  Who knows you might even bump into your neighbor! Consider this a spark, to ignite a fire; getting all of the closeted knitters out into fresh air.   Find more details at https://www.wwkipday.com/ , register an event if there is not one near you or just be out there and seen with your needles.

St. Onuphrius: the Patron Saint of Weaving So much about Onuphrius is uncertain – even to when he lived, sometime during the 3-5 th Centphuries, it’s estimated. A Hermit, he is thought to have lived in the Egyptian desert during the time when Christianity was becoming the main faith in the Roman Empire. Individuals felt they should go into the desert in order to suffer privation like John the Baptist. The story, told by one Paphnutius, possibly an Abbot, goes that he was visiting the desert in order to decide if he should become and Hermit and he came across a man who looked wild enough for Paphnutius to be frightened by him and run away. Being called back by Onuphrius, they spent time together, talking in his cell. Paphnutius claims to have been told that the Hermit had spent his youth living as a Monk in the large, ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onuphrius ) strictly silent monastery of Eratus near the city of Hermopolis, situated near the boundary of Upper and Lower Egypt bu...