Wednesday, June 13, 2018 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon 31
WATERCOLORS:
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Adirondacks.
“Adele Hepburn was the
artist-in-residence there, and
she helped me with tech-
niques,” Judy recalled.
Attracted by the sponta-
neity and brightness of the
medium, she acquired a strong
background in composition
and design, textile design-
ing, and fine arts at Skidmore
College in Saratoga Springs.
Her first date with husband-
to-be Don Hayden was at the
Fourth of July fireworks at
Fort Ticonderoga. Their hon-
eymoon consisted of driv-
ing from New York to Los
Angeles, where Don had a job
waiting for him.
“When I first moved to the
West Coast, I went looking
for a place to buy yarn,” Judy
said. “That led to meeting a
family who owned a company,
and I went to work for them as
a designer.” She eventually
found a woman who was sell-
ing from her samples to inte-
rior decorators, so she left that
company and began her own
business, Hayden Weavers, in
1964.
The first Hayden Weavers
workshop was in her home,
where Judy custom-dyed and
designed fabric for woven
draperies, and cut veneers for
wooden woven blinds. She
acquired the materials and
dyed the yarn or stained the
wooden veneers, and then cal-
culated the number of threads
for fabric, or slats for blinds,
needed to create the end prod-
uct. Fabric was woven on fly
shuttle looms, and wooden
blinds were cut and sewn
together by hand.
Pots of colored dye, heavily
infused with vinegar, sim-
mered on the kitchen stove.
Judy’s daughter, Dale Lysne
of Sisters, recalled, “I can still
smell the dye pots. I would
sometimes have to call a friend
to get a ride somewhere. I
would say ‘my mom can’t take
me because she’s dyeing.’”
Both Judy and her sister,
Sharon Hayden of Gresham,
worked for their mom.
“At first, I would dye the
yarn and weave a sample,
called a strike-off,” Judy said.
Her interior designer cli-
ents would send items — a
marigold, a man’s shoe, wall-
paper or carpet, even a fire-
place stone — for Judy to
color-match the end product.
Once she arrived at the correct
color, Judy had to calculate the
math: how many threads per
inch, and how many inches
wide the final product needed
to be. Since many of her cli-
ents were overseas, the calcu-
lation often involved convert-
ing dimensions from metric to
avoirdupois units.
“Not only does Mom love
the colors and the textures,
she also loves the math. And
she is so good at it,” said her
daughter.
Judy’s business grew expo-
nentially, as she worked with
interior designers around the
world. She moved the busi-
ness to a huge warehouse.
Hayden fabrics and blinds
were featured in design show-
rooms in San Francisco,
Seattle, Houston, New York,
Miami, and more. They ended
up in luxury homes and busi-
nesses worldwide.
One remarkable custom
job involved weaving wooden
blinds for a top-story restau-
rant in Kuala Lumpur. After
converting from metric dimen-
sions, each blind was woven
to a different specification,
packaged and shipped, first to
Seattle and then to Asia. The
eventual fit was perfect. But
they nearly didn’t make it.
The blinds were too large to
fit in the standard elevators.
Fortunately, the contractor
found an elevator whose top
had not been finished, so the
blinds were stood on end and
moved to the top floor.
“The other option would
have been to cut them in half!”
Judy exclaimed — a move
that would have ruined the
product.
In addition to ending up in
celebrity homes, Judy’s fabrics
would go on to earn recogni-
tion at the California Design
PHOTO BY HELEN SCHMIDLING
X exhibit at the Pasadena Art
Museum. She can’t recall all Judy Hayden, right, and her daughter Dale Lysne.
of the celebrities who eventu-
ally acquired her fabrics, but
Superior
Dale specifically mentioned
Escrow
making fine white cloth that
upholstered a stool for then-
Execution
popular comedienne Totie
Ultimate
Fields.
“After her left leg was
Service
amputated, she used that stool
to rest her good leg,” Dale said.
In 1985, Judy retired and
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turned to painting from her
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studio in northern California.
In 1996, she moved to
Florence, on the Oregon
Coast, a place where she had
always found inspiration dur-
ing her many visits there. Last
year, she moved to Sisters to
be closer to family, including
her daughters and her twin sis-
ter, Helen, in Copalis Beach,
Washington. She fully expects
to keep right on painting, tun-
ing her color palate for the
Cascades and the High Desert.
Judy’s watercolor scenes
are in the computer room and
the entryway of the Sisters
Library through the end of
June. A few of them are for
sale, with a small portion of
the sale price going to the
Friends of the Sisters Library.
Len Babb’s Western art is fea-
tured at the same time in the
community room.
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