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Wednesday, December 27, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Local weaver organized traveling show
By Helen Schmidling
Correspondent
“Color Gone Wild,” the
2018 traveling show by the
Weaving Guilds of Oregon
(WeGO), kicks off a state-
wide tour January 8 at Central
Oregon Community College
in Bend.
For Sisters resident Linda
Davis, it’s been a yearlong
labor of love as she’s headed
up the 2018 traveling show
committee. Davis is a spin-
ner, weaver, knitter, seam-
stress and longtime member
of Central Oregon Spinners
and Weavers Guild. It’s been
a constant communication
with more than 700 members
of WeGO, a nonprofit state-
wide organization of weav-
ing, spinning and related fiber
craft guilds.
“I don’t have Christmas
decorations – my house and
studio are filled with (show)
entries,” Davis told The
Nugget.
All of the entries were due
at the end of October, so for
a couple of weeks, the UPS
truck visited her home every
day. It was a Christmas-
come-early as she opened
box after box of magnificent
textiles.
WeGO, formed in 1981,
sponsors this traveling exhibit
every three to five years. The
organization also puts on a
regional conference every
10 years, which includes
weaving guilds from Oregon,
Washington, Idaho, Montana,
Alaska and British Columbia.
While Sisters is known
worldwide as a destination
for quilters, it’s also home to
a lively community of spin-
ners and weavers. Spinning
is the art of gathering fiber
together to form yarn, which
is then used by weavers to
create textiles from clothing
to household decorations.
Once regarded as a major
occupation, weaving now
exists as more of a hobby
and avocation for those who
have time, talent, resources
and a love of fiber, color,
and design. Fibers can come
from plants (flax and hemp),
animals (sheep, goats, and
alpacas), and man-made syn-
thetics (polyester and nylon).
Davis learned to sew and
knit as a teenager, and has
had a lifelong passion for
fiber arts. When a new job
took her to Boise, a weav-
ing shop there soon capti-
vated her. She was drawn
by the colorful display of
yarn, signed up for a weaving
class, bought a loom, and the
rest is a colorful history. Her
weavings have won awards,
and each year she is the
power behind assembling the
Central Oregon Spinners and
Weavers exhibit in the Sisters
Library.
Part of the challenge in
compiling a statewide exhibit
is ensuring participation from
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draws on resources from his-
tory of fiber and technique to
traditional and contemporary
design, and traditional and
modern tools and materials.
The “Color Gone Wild”
show features 66 entries
comprised of 70 pieces. All
of the entries were juried, and
all deemed of superior show
quality. The biggest challenge
for the jurors was picking the
award-winners. Best of Show
was awarded to Francisco
Bautista of Sandy, Oregon,
for “Sentimientos,” a Zapotec
weaving in the tradition of
Oaxaca, Mexico. The entry
is similar in style to Navajo
weaving.
Other show awards are
See DAVIS on page 25
PHOTO BY HELEN SCHMIDLING
Linda Davis and one of her woven pieces, “Three Sisters Winter Sunset.”
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