Next Meeting: Saturday May 3, 2008
9:30 am: Social Time
10:00 am: Business Meeting
10:30 am: Ilona Pachler, Textile Conservator
The Care and Presentation of Textile Art
Please NOTE: This meeting is on SATURDAY and it is in SANTA FE
Ilona Pachler was born in Austria and received a Master of Fine Arts in Textile Arts and Painting and was trained as a tapestry weaver in the Gobelin technique. In 1982 she moved to New York City and executed over 60 commissioned tapestries in designs by herself and other artists over the next 16 years. Her own work was commissioned by IBM for their headquarters in White Plains and her work is in many other private and public collections.
In 1984 her transition into becoming a textile conservator began with working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City on projects like the Louis XIV bedroom and other 17th century tapestries. By 1985 she worked as head conservator for a private gallery in NYC, specializing in Pre-Columbian and Ethnographic textiles.
For the last 17 years she has established her own business as a textile conservator here in Santa Fe. She has since collaborated and worked with museums, auction houses, private collectors and antique dealers in the US and Europe.
In her presentation, Ilona will describe the process of textile conservation with a special emphasis on how to clean and prepare your own textiles so that you can enjoy them for many years. She will also give an overview of her specialty, Pre-Columbian textile conservation.
Las Tejedoras 2008 Ghost Ranch Show
The Las Tejedoras show will be installed on July 8. All pieces must be to Ghost Ranch by 10:30AM. Please let Sandy Voss know if you can help with setup or takedown. Bring a sack lunch and drink on setup day. The reception will be July 19 from 2 to 4. Participants should plan to attend. Takedown will be September 6 from 1 to 4 PM.
The instructions and inventory forms are available via the links below, and they will be sent out with the May Newsletter.
Contemporary Rag Rugs by Sandy Voss
Thru April 30 at
Marigold Arts, 424 Canyon Rd., Santa Fe. (505) 982-4142.
New Web Based Magazine
If you have not checked out the new web based magazine by Syne Mitchell (of WeaveCast fame), you should head over to
http://weavezine.com/. Please support this new venture by visiting the site.
Brief History of Las Tejedoras Fiber Arts Guild
The Guild was founded in the Spring of 1972 under the leadership of Noel
Stewart as Las Tejedoras de Santa Fe y Los Alamos. Noel was the first
president and served Fall 1972-May 1973. The Guild assisted with the Rio
Grande Weaving and Dyeing Workshop in 1976 and 1979 at the Museum of
International Folk Art. This led to the publication of Spanish Textile
Tradition of New Mexico and Colorado, copyright 1979 Museum of New
Mexico Press.
The newsletters in the Guild archives go back to 1979. At that time the
membership was roughly divided between Santa Fe and Los Alamos
addresses. Meetings were held alternately between Santa Fe and Los
Alamos. We've been adding members from towns outside these two since. The
number of members from Taos picked up in '85 and has increased steadily.
We started getting more than one or two members from Espaņola, Abiquiu,
and Ojo Caliente in the late 80's. In 2005 members live in Santa Fe,
Los Alamos, Espaņola, Taos, Albuquerque, Las Vegas and smaller towns
throughout northcentral New Mexico.
The guild changed its name to Las Tejedoras Fiber Arts Guild in 1999.
With this change we were recognizing that our members live throughout
northcentral New Mexico and southern Colorado. We also wished to expand
our membership to include knitters and spinners as well as weavers who
were our traditional membership base.
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