OUTREACH

Connie Creed coordinates WSSA volunteers for weaving and spinning demonstrations. Direct requests to her.

Some recent/future events at which she and/or members participated/will participate in include:

Pioneer Farm Frontier Days
French Legation
San Marcos Holiday Fair
Austin Science Fun Day
Civil War Days at Blanco

Donation: Letitia Rogers, owner of Sheepthrills and WSSA member, generously donated a drum carder to Talitha Cumi (USA office: 303-306-1329), a group that teaches marketable skills to poverty stricken women in India. They are taking 10 donated spinning wheels for the production of yarn and silk and requested drum carders from US guilds. Without this help many of these women and children die of starvation or are sold into temple prostitution.

Saltillo on Cinco Sarape Project/Center for Mexican American Cutural Arts (CMACA), Inc./East Austin School Children

Valerie Menard, volunteer at CMACA, who purchased a hand-made loom from the Saltillo area of Mexico, and a weaver from Saltillo, will demonstrate sarape weaving at four East Austin elementary schools to encourage children to learn to weave and pass on these techniques. Valerie requested WSSA to warp the loom last year and this year. Cheryl Engel did so last year; Meg, Eileen, and Sharon helped Sept. 8, 2006. For more info on CMACA, see www.austinmacc.com/index.php?Programs.
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