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Schwenkfelder Library and Museum Workshop

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PENNSBURG, PA   Saturday, April 24 was the last day for “Fraktur Motifs Inspire Clay and Wool”, a five month exhibit I coordinated with the Schwenkfelder Library and Museum curator, Candace Perry.  Eight participants took the design workshop.  The wide variety of designs surprised the class and staff but not me…. Everyone IS creative, we just need to give them the tools to use and encourage ideas.  

David's Stem of Flowers, by Susan Feller

Original frakturs hang in the Museum displays and can be found in the beautiful text:  Fraktur Writings and Folk Art Drawings of the Schwenkfelder Library Collection by Dennis Moyer, PA German Society, 1997 available in their gift shop.  With this visual stimulus and the rugs created by past students still in the Fraktur Gallery display this

group was especially inspired.  I look forward to seeing the patterns turn into rugs arguably some quicker than others.  Three of the participants are brand new to rughooking!  They have learned more than some rughookers who have hooked for years– these people know how to make their own design.

Design Workshop participants

Ohio Rug Camp

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Twelve really fun people and I were scheduled for the Parlour Room at Punderson State Park.  The rambling stone structure included a wide but spiraling staircase and our class space … up in “heaven”.  Our view of the lake allowed peacefulness, and the thrill one evening of seeing a Bald Eagle soar over the waters. 

Another successful and very creative workshop designing their own patterns using the Frakturs as inspirations.  With my templates and extensive library of colorful collections each student (even those who “couldn’t draw a straight line with a ruler”) had a unique design on paper by lunch on the first day! 

Ohio Rug Camp 2010 great group!

For anyone who is considering the design workshop… please sign up for the next one near you (see www.RuckmanMillFarm.com calendar). I am sure you will enjoy it and learn how to use this design resource  to create many patterns.