Esther Grav on American Weavers Association Conference

Esther Grav on American Weavers Association Conference

Shaelagh Cull

Esther Grav

Malting Tower at the Tett Centre

The American Weavers Association did their conference in Toronto. And that was one of the few times actually they've only done a conference in Canada. And the one was in Toronto and a group of us from Kingston actually went to the conference. Well, a lot of Canadians obviously went to the conference, but there was a group from particularly from Kingston Guild. We had McPherson house we used and had the 100 inch loom set up in there so people that are traveling from Ottawa, they could stop in and see the 100 inch loom actually working. So for that summer, we wove blankets and table cloths, stuff on the loom. Yes, and it was open to the public so they can see it. So different members of the Guild participated in that and it was just a really.. Because it was such an unusual conference, and big. I mean, many of our, we were in conference, spinning conferences limited to 150 people, whereas the American Weavers Conference is like 1000s. So that was a pretty big event, I think and really, We had some good times to get away.