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Over 100 Color Pictures from the October CW Journal are available at
CW Journal # 88 Peter Collingwood and Articles Pictures
CW Journal # 88 Fashion Show Color Pictures
CW Journal # 88 CW Exhibit Weaving in the Computer Age Color Pictures
The complete Table of Contents is at Complex Weavers Journal

Collingwood DVD's The 2-disk set is available from Marjie Thompson, email marjie@maine.rr.com. The price, including postage, is $18 within the US, $18.75 to Canada, $21 to Australia, and $20 to Europe. Prices for other countries will be according to shipping costs.
Weavers in the UK can obtain a copy directly from Wendy Morris for £10, including shipping. Email her at wendy@wendymorris.co.uk

Nominating Committee: Bonnie Inouye, Chair (Colorado and Maryland, USA), [bonnieinouye (at) yahoo.com]; Marguerite Gingras (Quebec, Canada) [lucieg(at) webnet.qc.ca]; and Agnes Hauptli (Northland, New Zealand), [ahauptli (at) orcon.net.nz].
Please send them your suggestions for the following offices: 2nd Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, and Study Group Coordinator.

Temporary Address? When you relocate, even if only for part of the year, please e-mail the Membership Chair, Frances Alcorn, at alcorn@nwlink.com and she will update your information. Your prompt attention to these situations will help keep our CW Journal mailing costs down. For details, see Bulletin Board/Announcements

This month's showcase

In Memoriam
	The weaving world was greatly saddened by the announcement on October 9 of the death of Peter Collingwood. He died in his studio, as befits a master weaver. Since Peter could not come to Seminars, Wendy Morris and Stacey Harvey-Brown interviewed him for a video to be shown at the meeting. In his message to Complex Weavers, Peter said, "Hello you lot. I just want to say something very simple to you complicated weavers, that I'm really sorry to have let you down and not be there, but the integrity of the human envelope has been disturbed and I cannot walk very well, as you have maybe seen in this flm. So the journey was not advisable. But I hope this video will give you some idea of my workshop. "I'm very interested in what you are doing or will be doing and I hope to see a report of it because I think it's from your concentrated study groups that new things can come - new ideas, new aspects. We talked at some point in this flm about the future of handweaving, and I said I thought it depended on people rather than on this abstract thing "handweaving". And it seems to me very likely that it's amongst you that the future may be changed - it may develop, it may go sideways, it may ... it won't go down, I hope it always goes upwards..." Read the complete report from Stacey and Wendy on their time with Peter in Complex Weavers Journal, Volume 88, October 2008, page 15. Order the videos from Margie or Wendy - see the addresses above. There's an obituary on Peter Collingwood in the TimesOnline http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article5018987.ece Alice Schlein wove this "Portrait of Peter Collingwood" for the 2008 CW Seminars in St Petersburg, FL. She writes that the technique is lampas with two pattern wefts; one of the wefts is handspun gray wool. The warp is black tencel and peach silk. The piece was designed in Photoshop and woven on the TC-1. Alice says, "To use one of his favorite puns, 'Peter, you loom large.' "
Used by permission. This is the seventy-eighth item in our showcase of what members are doing. Watch this space - something else will be here around the first week of December, 2008. To see the items previously showcased, click Showcase

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Is it for .... You?

• If you want to learn more about weaving that is exciting, challenging, and complex, this is the group for you. Complex Weavers is open to anyone with a curiosity to know and a willingness to share.

• Journal, published three times a year, allows members to share their ideas and studies.
• A Membership Directory, published every other year, lists members' addresses, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, equipment and areas of interest. This allows for easy contact and exchange of ideas.
• The Library has an extensive collection of books, manuscripts, and samples which members may borrow by mail. A Library List is sent to members every two years.
• Study groups and Sample Exchanges are an ongoing and vital part of Complex Weavers. They are self organized and financed and produce samples, newsletters or other materials for exchange among members. More groups are formed as demand arises. A Study Group Guide is published every two years, with updates between. See our Study Group List for a listing of all study groups and a description of each.

It is for .... Us:

• Promoting complex weaving through education, information, and technology related to complex weave structures.
• Inspiring through research, documentation, and innovative ideas.
• Encouraging members to discover and develop their own unique and creative ideas.
• Supporting the continuous exchange and sharing of ideas.
• Asking why it works and finding other ways to make it work.
• Being committed to enthusiasm, excellence and expertise
• Challenging and stimulating through an extensive library, numerous study groups, swatch exchanges and informative seminars.

• "Complex. The word can be scary. Many weavers shy away from weaving when associated with this word. Why? In weaving, complex does not have to be defined as difficult. I consider complexity better defined as a degree of depth as opposed to a degree of difficulty."
  ---Su Butler, Understanding Rayon Chenille. Butlerdidit! Press, Woodstock, IL (2002); p 73.
• For more quotes on what "complex" means to various members, go to Complex Weavers Thoughts about Complexity

Other Activities

• Regional Meetings are held throughout the world through the efforts of the Regional Representatives. These Representatives are just a few of the people who volunteer to make the organization work for you.
• Awards Program is designed to recognize excellence in complex weaving at juried shows.
• Complex Weavers Seminar is a three-day conference held in even-numbered years that further encourages exchange of information and formation of many friendships. The next Seminar will be held in the summer, 2010, somewhere in the western USA.

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