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Silk from orb weaver spiders
10-01-2012 

If you are lucky enough to be in London between now and June 2012 you have the opportunity to visit the Victoria and Albert Museum to see the world's largest piece of cloth woven and embroidered out of spider silk. For a peek you can look at the Victoria and Albert website.

New directions in Fibre
10-01-2012 
Here is something out of the box - growing your own clothes!
Designer
Suzanne Lee shares her experiments in growing a kombucha-based
material that can be used like fabric or vegetable leather to make
clothing. You can find out more by watching this video.

Ludmilla Loves Lace
06-09-2011 
Congratulations to Lumilla Abramova whose lace jacket 'Gentleness' is included in the Powerhouse Museums current exhibition Love Lace. Love Lace continues at the Powerhouse Museum until April 2012.

New Email Address
31-07-2010 
Canberra Spinners and Weavers has a new email address. It is:
canberraspinners1@bigpond.com

Newsletter Submissions
23-03-2010 
Entries for CSW newsletters should be emailed to the Newsletter Editor at the CSW email address canberraspinners1@bigpond.com. Please ensure that you include 'Newsletter Editor' in the title of your email.

Golden Box Donations
02-02-2010 
Please remember that the Golden Box charge has been increased to $3. This charge is paid whenever you attend a function or meeting at the Guild and helps cover our running costs.

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There will be no access to the CSW rooms and grounds
on 3 & 4 February to allow for tree removal.


Next Meeting
   Saturday 18 February
2.00pm
 Guest speaker Esther Macdonald
2012 memberships cards can now be collected at the Guild rooms.

  Members who haven't yet renewed their membership are reminded that they will need to renew by 1 March 2012.
Payments after that date will attract a joining fee.
Email address: canberraspinners1@bigpond.com
How and where to find us
Our meeting rooms, "Kurrajong" are located in a building on the northern corner of Majura Oval.
The only access is gained through double gates close to the corner of Angas and Sherbrooke Streets, Ainslie (UBD map 49, K8).

"Kurrajong" is open every Tuesday 10am to 2pm and again at 6pm to 9pm (for those unable to visit during the day).
The rooms are also open on other selected days and times (please check the Guild Diary and Group Activity pages for further details).


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