Hyperbolic Crochet

by Guido on August 22, 2010

Daina Taimina

Daina Taimina

Hyperbolic Crochet
Common Cod Guild Meeting
Friday, 7pm
September 10, 2010
32 Vassar Street, Room 123

Daina Taimina, author of “Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes”, will join the guild to explore geometry and its historical connections with art, architecture, navigation, and motion, as well as the history of crochet, which provides a context for the significance of a physical model of a mathematical concept that has plagued mathematicians for centuries.

Daina Taimina is a professor of mathematics at Cornell University, Taimina regularly participates in art exhibitions and educational workshops related to her crocheted models. She was nominated as one of the “Most Innovative People and Organizations in the Science and Technology World in 2006.”

You can learn more about her work please visit her web site.

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A Lifetime of Textiles… Loro Piana, Linhe, and Lowell

by Guido on July 7, 2010

Jim Coleman

Jim Coleman

7pm, July 9th, 2010
Common Cod Guild Meeting
32 Vassar St., Cambridge, MA
Room 32-155

Jim Coleman , a local fiber community power house, has spent his life dedicated to the textile industry. In his career working for Forté Cashmere Company in Woonsocket, RI, he has traveled the world to bring in the finest quality products from places like China, the former USSR, and Eastern Europe. After leaving the industry in 2005 he has taken on the position as President/CEO/Director of the American Textile History Museum.

In his talk “A Lifetime of Textiles… Loro Piana, Linhe and Lowell” he will share both his career and the issues and challenges facing the most significant combined collection of textile materials, library & ephemera in the Americas if not the world. This talk will be a very interesting blend of industry and non-profit parts of the fiber community in the Boston area.

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Artful Fiber

April 5, 2010

Is it May yet?  Adrienne Sloane will be our next speaker at the May 14 guild meeting. Artist and community builder, she’ll show us how knitting and crochet artists are reinterpreting and liberating themselves from traditional forms.  The work they’re creating is showing in museums and galleries here in Boston and around the world..  We’ll [...]

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Brooklyn Tweed meets the Cod

January 25, 2010

Hope to see you at our March 12 meeting at 7pm when knitwear designer and photographer Jared Flood (aka Brooklyn Tweed) comes to Boston.  We’ll meet at 32 Vassar St (Stata Center) in Cambridge, room 123, near the Kendall Square Red line T stop. The Pacific Northwest native has been living in Brooklyn since 2005, [...]

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Knitting on the Edge (of the internet)

December 31, 2009

Jan 8th, 7pm 32 Vassar St., Cambridge, MA Room 32-123 The guild is thrilled to announce Julia Farwell-Clay will kick off the FiberCamp Boston as our guest speaker. While still shocking to many internet geeks, developers, and even many in the fiber community, knitting is a very powerful force on the internet. Julia Farwell-Clay, Features [...]

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January, 2010

December 18, 2009

Bustling could describe the dock of the Common Cod this month.  Folks are signing up for FiberCamp, building session topics, and organizers are lining up sponsors and vendors for the event.  We’ve made videos and with your help, are spreading the word. But let’s not forget our speaker for the Friday night meeting.  Julia Farwell [...]

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Open Registration for FiberCamp Boston

December 10, 2009

Whew!   Register now for FiberCamp Boston on January 9 and 10, 2010 at the Arsenal Center for the Arts. What is FiberCamp?  It’s an open agenda weekend where you can ask, share, and hang out with people who are passionate about spinning, crochet, knitting, weaving, dyeing, felting, surface design, photography or social networking. Our regular [...]

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Make Mine Local Live Stream

November 11, 2009

SHOW BEGINS at 7PM EST, Friday, November 11th Make Mine Local Fiber Arts Fashion Showcase 2009 from Brilliantvideo on Vimeo. Thanks to my friend Skip at Brilliant Video Productions we will be streaming the the fashion show. You can also see the video on Brilliant Video’s Vimeo Channel directly. OK… we will try to live [...]

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Make Mine Local’s Host

October 27, 2009

WACKY, WONDERFULLY CREATIVE, EMPOWERING, and a woman you do NOT want to mess with! That’s Shannon Okey, our guest speaker and host for the Guild’s first Fiber Fashion Showcase. At the November 13th meeting, Shannon will introduce the local designs heading down the runway and answer the much mused question, “Can you make a living [...]

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Make Mine Local Coming Soon!

October 9, 2009

Boston Fashion Week was  last week, but Make Mine Local The Common Cod’s first Fiber Fashion Showcase will glide across our Friday, November 13 meeting.   Come and catch the fashion breeze of Boston area designers and guest hostess Shannon Okey of Knitgrrl Studio.  It’s time to celebrate this year’s theme:  Fall in New England . Really, [...]

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