NEXT MEETING: Oct. 26, 2011
Program: A Field Trip to "A Verb For Keeping Warm" 6328 San Pablo Ave, [near the corner of Alcatraz], Oakland. We'll meet there about 7:00 pm. Kristine Vejar, owner of this wonderful yarn shop, will give us a talk titled "Threads of Transition, Patterns of Change, Rabari Textiles of India" . This collection includes colorful textiles made by three distinct communities of semi nomadic camel herders in India known as Rabari. The items are what would be included as part of a dowry: camel covers, quits, wall hangings and bags. Using broadcloth as a canvas, Rabari women applique and embroider motifs selected from their remote desert environs of Northern Gujarat. This display is up in the shop right now and you can drop by to see it any time, but if you come to our field trip, you will hear all about it from Kristine herself. The exhibition is based on her research during a Fulbright Scholarship from 2001 - 2002 and shows how the three groups of Rabari exhibited ...