By YASEMIN TALAT
A NEW space for craft lovers has opened in Williamstown and to celebrate the group of threaders behind the project have declared February and March thread months.
The Loom Room is described as a playroom for people who love threads, love to design and create objects and manipulate threads using a variety of tools.
The room was created after a loom was bequeathed to the citizens of Hobsons Bay and now a group of ‘Curious Threaders’ meet weekly on a Wednesday morning to “converse, connect and create”.
Coordinator Jenni Mitchell said anyone curious about threading was welcome to join and share the learning experience.
“The Loom Room is a space to learn and share your threading skills,” Ms Mitchell said.
“Bring your ideas and come and see what’s happening.”
With the help of Hobsons Bay Council and the Williamstown Library the group have employed trained weaver-artist Ilka White to lead a community project for the next two months.
Ms White will conduct fortnightly sessions helping the threaders create braided rag rugs and teach the group how to warp a loom.
“We’ll also be holding monthly information sessions in the early evening with talks but artist-weavers about traditional cultural skills: from the use of grasses by Indigenous groups, and ground looms in Timor Leste, to table and peddle looms of the kind now housed in the Loom Room at The Corner,” Ms Mitchell said.
The Loom Room is located at ‘The Corner’ – the building on the corner of Ferguson St and Melbourne Rd, Williamstown and the group meet every Wednesday at 11am.
For more information contact Jenni Mitchell jbmitch@westnet.com.au or message 0478641236.
