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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1983-11-02, Page 15i• • Goo IC. a WEDNESDAY, NR Gerry Zurbrlgg of R.R. 4 Goderich learned to weave on a table department. She is shown here at the floor loom which she recently loom four years ago through a course offered by the local reeration purchased (Photo by Joanne Buchanan) • • Local weaver prepares for exhibition Gerry Zurbrigg of R.R. 4 Goderich claims she is addicted to weaving after learning the craft a mere four years ago. "As a hobby, weaving can be expensive. If you can sell some of the articles you make, it helps to pay for your habit," she explains. With that in mind, Gerry is busy preparing for the annual Spinning and Weaving Sale and Exhibition to be held at the River Mill in Benmiller on November 5 and 6. This event is sponsored by the Huron Tract Spinners and Weavers Guild of which Geary has been a member for three years. She is serving as the Guild's treasurer this year. Although at present she is mainly weaving articles for herself and a few friends, Gerry has aspirations of some day turning her hobby into a business venture. She recently had this idea reinforced at a course taught by Evelyn Hunter of London. "She (Evelyn) started out much the same as I did and then apprenticed with a production weaver in California. She has since done very well selling fashions and she has really inspired me." Gerry has always enjoyed doing things with her hands—she knits, sews, crochets and embroiders—so when a weaving course was offered through the Goderich Recreation Department four years ago, she signed up. She learned the basics on a table loom froth course instructor Evelyn Hardy. About a month ago, she bought a floor loom. She had learned how to operate a floor loom OPEN HOUSE in July at a week long beginners' workshop held at, The Schoolhouse in Belwood (near Guelph). Even though Gerry has been weaving for four years, she found the ueginners' workshop invaluable and claims she got "a lot of reinforcement" at it. Besides learning about floor looms, she also learned about various fabric textures and how to put certain yarns together. The Schoolhouse Gerry has high praise for The Schoolhouse which is run by Robert Cawood who also owns the Village Weaver Ltd., a unique three-storey emporium on Church Street in Toronto which caters to the educational and material needs of amateur and professional weavers throughout North America. During a Sunday drive in the winter of 1971, Cawood and his business partner Jan Huk saw an abandoned 139 -year-old field- stone schoolhouse in Belwood which had been empty since late 1950. After five years of renovations by Cawood and Huk, The Schoolhouse opened its doors for summer classes. Only three people turned up for the first class but as word spread and ad- vertisements were placed in craft magazines, the students came. Today, workshops are spread over nine or ten weeks each summer and attract over 100 students from the U.S. and every flat Canadian te to province. Each student paysa o include accommodation, instruction, 116 Cambria Rd. N. OnKz ALL POINTS REALTY INC. Saturday, November 5 2:00 to 5:00 materials and meals for the seven days. Cawood, a gourmet cook, prepares "it is ex- cellent." food and according to Gerry, Besides the beginners' workshop for weavers, there are other natural tapestry design, rug weaving and tural dyeing, to name a few. The Schoolhouse is totally self-sufficient. It has 13 separate living levels, including bedrooms and looms for 12 people. The one - acre property contains a tennis court, swimming pool, large vegetable and herb garden, a patio and a solarium. Gerry, who attended The Schoolhouse workshop with two other women from Goderich, found the whole week to be a relaxing vacation as well as a learning experience. She hopes to attend the in- termediate workshop in weaving there next summer. She also plans to experiment a bit more in the future, perhaps combining some of her crafts, such as knitting and weaving, to create fashionable sweaters and capes. Learning through such experimentation and future courses should produce better and better results. Gerry isn't sure what it is about weaving that has such a hold on her. She thinks being a math teacher might have something to do with it. Many weaving patterns follow precise mathematical sequences and Gerry says, "I guess that's the way my works." OVER ONE HALF MILLION IN SALES FOR MONTH OJ.(..1.' BER Meurke ,..President end Pete Settgser. Sales Manager congratulate Senior Sales Assodat' Les Willem for successfully handling over 100.000.00 In Real Estate Sales in ono month. 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