Program Night Meeting – Pre-Columbian Natural Dyes, Ixchel Suarez
Thursday, July 13, 2023
7:00 to 9:00 pm CDT
See GoogleGroup, members-only pages, or newsletter for Zoom link
Tapestry artist and Ixchel Suarez joins us this month to talk the dyes used in pre-columbian woven tapestries.
From Britannica online:
“Certain tapestry fragments have been found with 150 to 250 weft threads per square inch (60 to 100 per square centimetre). The warps of the tapestries are of undyed cotton, being, therefore, either white or brown. The wefts are of wool from the llama, guanaco, alpaca, or vicuña, with cotton sometimes used to obtain bright white. The tapestries are usually polychrome, for the range of available colours made with natural dyes was large.”
Ixchel Suarez has been a textile and fibre artist for almost 40 years. Her practice explores material and concept, particularly in Tapestry, in non-conventional ways. Ixchel holds a Master’s Degree in Museum Studies (Iberoamericana University, Mexico City), a BA in Graphic Design & Art History (Anahuac University, MC), and Post-Graduate Studies in Contemporary Textiles in Łódź, Poland. She is the Founder and Director of Textil Creativo, Oakville Arts Studio and the not-for-profit Canadian Tapestry and Texture Centre, whose mission is to practice the integration of tradition, culture, and self-expression, through textile and interdisciplinary creative arts. She has presented many solo and group shows, and her work is shown in private and public collections in Europe, Central, and North America. www.ixchelsuarez.com
Hands-on Night
Thursday, July 27, 2023
7:00-9:00 PM
In person! at Austin Recreation Center
1301 Shoal Creek Blvd, Austin, TX 78701
Other regularly scheduled meetings in May
See our members only pages, newsletter or Googlegroup for contact info and Zoom links
Friday, July 7 — Jane Stafford Study group
1:00 – 3:00 pm. Meeting via Zoom
Saturday, July 8 – The Spinning Study Group
1:00 – 3:00 pm. Meeting via Zoom
Friday, July 15 – Tapestry Study Group
1:00 – 3:00 pm. Meeting via Zoom
Thursday, July 20 – Swatch Study Group
1:00 – 3:00 pm. Meeting in person and via Zoom
Saturday, July 22 — Spinning Study Group Sit and Spin