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SHUTTLES AND SHEARS by lan Bell ..IF IT WASN'T FOR THEWEAVERS, WHAT would we do?" Until the invention of the power loom, the question posed by this old Scottish song was a serious one indeed. For centuries the handloom weaver was an indispensable member of any society living in a temperate climate. The changeover to mechanical weaving came fast and mercilessly with the industrial revolution and in all but the most remote area the handweaver became an endangered species. In the early days of weaving by steam or water power, hand-craftsmen sought to show their superiority through "John Henry" type exhibitions. Sheep would be shorn at dawn, and a completed woolen garment manufactured from the fleece over the course of a single day. One of thse feats.is outlined on the accompanying broadside. Eventually however, the quality of mechanical spinning and weaving improved sufficiently that hand weavers were supplanted for all save the most specialized tasks. In many places, the skills once so vital were forgotten and supplanted by the new technologies. Luckily they were not forgotten forever. In the late 1gth century, at about the same time as the first major folk music "revival", interested individuals endeavoured to revive the textile arts of previous generations. Through their efforts new life was breathed into the old traditions and soon an active renaissance was underway. Since the demands placed upon the "new wave" of spinners and weavers were not of the proportions that their predecessors had faced, the work and technioues took on a somewhat different character than before, and new elements of art were introduced to a once strictlv functional craft. Weavers and sprnners today work in a wide variety of styles, ranging from traditional, functional work to decorative and sculptural pieces. For Mariposa's Shuttles and Shears project we have chosen to present one of the most basic applications of hand weaving, the manufacture of blankets. While this is not a 'glamorous' proiect it requires a high degree of consistency in both spinning and weaving. II.LUSTRATr|rE o! IIIAIIUIICTUAIilO ffI,IAITT IITn.lr !u lrv|J tO PROVD TEE POSAIAIJrY O! CLOTH A.ND UADI IIr!lO A gatherings at which cloth is passed from person to person, around a large table and beaten on the table to the rhythmic accompaniment of Gaelic songs rserved expressly for that purpose. Primal Sanforizing. In addition to the work connected with the blanket there will be other skills and techniques being presented in this area. There will be demonstrations of natural dying (find out whv so many of our flags are red, white and blue), 65 well as the breaking and COAT spinning of flax fibre for linen, and the spinning of angora. The blanket completed by our craftspeople will be awarded as the orize in a raffle to be drawn on Sunday July 28, during theevening concert. You can buy tickets in the Shuttles and Shears pavilion lilD and other locations for $Uil$IT $1.00each, or a bookof sevenfor $5.00. A low price for the chance to take home a lasting and useful memento of Mariposa '85. Many thanks are due to the many individuals and groups whose enthusiasm AT rrvE O'CLOOE TE.A'T f,Oallxo and assistance has made this special project possible, particularly Alison Madden and the TWO SHEEP Huronia Spinners Guild, Helen Doherty and BBLOTODTO TO the Simcoe County Shuttle Racers'Guild and Adrienne Hood of the Boyal Ontario Btrt, Museum. Thanks also to Georgian College, WEBE IEEARID BY EI8 OWIg SEEPEERD for the loan of the loom used at the testival. $UilNI$I lItD WArCE WAs SUCOtaarlrLLy AOOOIPLTSEID o! Tll[$llll, tle 20t[ of JUt[, l8u. $ir Joln Tlroclnorton, TNAilGIS IIRUETT AITD TIIE WOOL OIVEN TO Ur. JOEII G0XETEB AT oBI,IIIgA.u TIrLg, NEAR il[WBUnI, D[[Sil[[r wEO EAD lbe WOOL Spun, The YARN Spooled. lllarped, Loomed, aod Wove. The CLOTH Burred, Milled, Rowed, Dyed, Dryed, Sheared, and pressed BY I'0UR, O'cLoCK - ALL the proceasea of IIANUFACTURE were performed BY HAND in ELEVEN HOUns. TIIE CLOTE es rh.! givcE to SHUTTLES AND SHEARS PARTICIPANTS SPINNERS OYER Alison Madden Frances Lightbourne Eleanor Andersson DROP SPINDLER Dawn Leggett Julie Barker Cora Bowman Erma Newhouse ADVISOR WEAVERS Adrienne Hood Helen Doherty CO-OROINATOR WASN'T THAT A TINIE! The blanket that will be created over the course of the festival will be of traditional Scottish/Canadian design, and will be worked on at the hexagonal wooden pavilion within the craft area. With the addition of related musical performances on a workshop stage the project will take on the festive nature of an old time "bee". ilr. ISMC WHITE, Tailor, of Newbury, On Friday evening, fleeces kindly provided by local sheep will be presented to our soinners. Out of consideration toward the sheep, we will not be shearing them at the festival. lmagine having to wearyour heaviest wool sweater until the end of Julyl Wto!. SoD, JM€s W'hib. cut tbe Cort out bal bsd it Erd6 uD eltbi! EVERY YEAR SINCE ESTELLE TWO HOURS AND TWTJ{TY MINUTES, Klein asked me to help out with the Wton tb6 Xsbr U&ufeture4 Ur. Joba Corot€r, prueDt d it to Festival, I've been saying yes to all the many other artistic directors. $ir Jo[n Tlmclnorton, Bart, Once again I've been asked. As in the ,ho spporod rith ii oD bofore rD s.€bbly o? oooo spechtoE rho hrd cobe fs ud D€rr to dtDcrs thia ribgular past, ud I volunteer as one of the people uprocsdoDt6d porforEr!€ coEplatod iE in the Hospitality area. We look after THIRTEEN HOURS AND TWENTY MINUTES. the cares and needs of the performers. Right now (as of this writing) On Sunday afternoon the newly woven I'm cloth will be'f ulled'. This isa process in which up to my elbows in work. Hotel the cloth is soaked, banged, beaten, and rooms to be booked; transportation otherwise abused in order to tighten the arranged; where can I find a crib? During the day, on Saturday and Sunday, the wool will be spun into yarn by four spinners. This many wheels will be necesary to feed the loom of the weavers, who will weave the yarn into bolts of cloth about 36 weave and mat the fibres together. Fulling also shrinks the fabric. Many handweavers today employ an automatic washing machine for this purpose. An older, and more entertaining method will be used at the What's that? Saul Broudy wants four rooms and a personal limo! No, I haven't got time to finish this article right now ... maybe after the Festival. inches wide. Two of these will be ioined together to make one blanket. t2 festival. This is known in Cape Breton as a "Milling Frolic". These f rolics are social/work Chick Roberts
FESTIVAL PERFORMERS Listed in alphabetical order RICK AVERY AND JUDY GREENHILL BARE NECESSITIES This unioue trio from Boston and Washington is New England's finest English country dance band. Jacqueline Schwab on piarro Peler Barnes In the recent past this group oJ on flute, llageolet recorder and Undoubtedly one of the most resoectable amateurs has been $uttr -..J i!lJ.) -u- ur, li.ju'. . 'w eclectic musicians around, Ken variously known as the Temperance viola can play traditional dance music Bloom has become a Canadian Choir of the Willowdale Band of Hope like nobody else! Their repertoire festival favourite. There's not much and soans four centuries and draws on about American, European, Near everything from baroque and classical Eastern and Indian music that he to iazz and lolk styles. Even if you doesn't know, and he builds and plays think you have two le{t feet, Bare many of his own instruments, Necessities' catchy dance tunes, including Ukrainian bandura (nothang boldlv imorovised countermelodies to do with first aid), zither, tamboura, and loaring flights of fancy are Northumbrian smallpipes and sitar. i rresisti ble. Ken makes his home in New York, where lately he's been very active PETER BELLAMY building, repairing, teaching and performing on the bandura. "those people upstairs". lt is difficult to obtain information on this organization, as their leader, Prof. Chalupka, never appears in public and is in fact rumoured to be out of the province "on business". Their style has been described by those an the know as neo-Victorian surrealist. P.C.C.S.S. will be presenting their repertoire ol parlour ballads. temperance songs and patriotic ditties for the ediiication ol one and all. One o{ the most inlluential individuals to spring from the folk revival, Peter Bellamy has been a favourite at past festivals and Mariposa is happy to welcome him back this year. He hails f rom Norfolk, England, and initially rose to orominence as a member of the trio The Young Tradition. That group's harmony arrangemenls of traditional songs were a musical landmark on both sides of the Atlantic and soawned a host of like-minded folk groups. Since 1969 Peter has been performing solo, singing a cappella or accompanying himself in inimitable style on the concertina. NORMAN BLAKE AND THE RISING FAWN STRING ENSEMBLE Rick and Judy have been performing together since they first met in a Toronto folk club eight years ago. Specializing in Canadian folk songs, they have played hundreds of concerts and workshops for young and adult audiences across Canada. All of their concerts aim to entertain, inform and involve the audience actively, and as a result people tend to come away lrom a perTormance saying "trye were great" rather than just "fhey were great." has oerformed and recorded w,th the likes of John Hartford, Joan Baez, Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan. His own compositions have been recorded by dozens ol other artists. Accompanied by his wife Nancy on cello and James Bryan on fiddle, Norman brings the best of the American string band tradition to his "original underground musib from the mysterious South". Direct from Argyll, Scotland, Caoercaillie is one of the most exciting young bands on the Scottish folk scene today. The six members of the group (average age: .19!) KEN BLOOM have been together just over 2 years and have already released their first LP, Cascade. Their spirited renditions of traditional dance music and Gaelic songs are sure to wrn them many new fans at Mariposa. PROFESSOR CHALUPKA'S CELEBRATED SINGING SCHOOL ELDON COOPER Eldon is one ot the mainstays of the Southwestern Ontario dance scene. He runs regular dances and dance weekends in Simcoe, and is a regular guest caller at dance events in London and Toronto. Eldon soecializes in Contras and English country dances, but has been known to call Ontario old-time dances as well. Even if you don't know a reel from a hey, Eldon will have you on the f loor and dancing in no time flat. BARNEY CUMMINGS SAUL BROUDY Best known in folk carcles for his wizardry on the harmonica, Saul also sings and plays guitar. This bearded, bespectacled Ph.D. from Philadelphia is a modern-day troubadour wtth a reperloire ranging from traditional ballads to blues and '50s rock and roll. Saul has played at clubs, cofteehouses and colleges across Canada, the U.S. and Great Britain. and at virtually all the malor North American folk {estivals. As a sideman he has recorded with Steve Goodman. Utah Phillips, Loudon Wainwright lll, Jim Rinoer and David Amram. and has recdrded a solo album. Travels with Broudy. CAPERCAILLIE ? I MARGARET CHRISTL lf you like old-time country music, Barney Cummings is your manl Last seen at lvlariposa in 1982. this fine singer-songwriter has been perf orming in and around Toronto foroverten years. His repertoire includes original material and early popular country music with its roots in Jimmy Rogers, the Carter family and Hank Williams. Barney will be doing double duty at the Festival: he'll also be seen in the crafts area, demonstrating his skills as a blacksmith and farrier. DALGLISH LARSEN AND SUTHERLAND (METAMORA) Margaret Christl's unforgettably pure, powerful voice and compelling stage presence have been applauded Norwegian {iddling on a country at clubs and festivals across North song? An lrish jig with a Balkan twist? America and beyond. A magnilicent a Gilbert and Sullivan meet the Lake cappella singer, she also accom- Champlain monster? You'll hear all oanies hersel{ on the mountain this plus a good dose of multi- dulcimer and Celtic drum. Equally at instrumental wizard(y and innovative home performing tender love songs, 3 part harmony from Malcolm melancholy ballads or bawdy rousers, Dalglish, Grey Larsen and Pete Maroaret is one of our foremost Sutherland. also known as Metamora. inte-roreters of traditionat ano They perform traditional and original contemporary songs lrom Canada material on hammer dulcimer, fiddle, and the British lsles. Margaret will be {lute, concerlina, guitar, banjo and accompanied at lvlariposa by Lindsay piano. The curative value of this Bucknell on guitar and Ron Casat on musical medicine show has been oiano and bass. praised from coast to coast. 13
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