Weavers, spinners at work in library
SLIPPERY ROCK — Susan Lightner's feet pressed six wooden treadles in combinations to power her loom weaving patterns of blue and purple.
“It's foot powered,” said Lightner, a Butler Spinners and Weavers Guild member from Marion Township. And so the pattern goes “6 and 2. 6, 4, 3. 6 and 1,” she said.
A new program called Fun with Fiber Arts at the Slippery Rock Library, 465 N. Main St., Slippery Rock, is a group of weavers who plan to gather once a month on Thursdays to teach and show people their craft. The next session is July 25.
Three from the group were part of the team that placed second in the sheep-to-shawl contest in 2016 at the Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg, said Lightner, who has been weaving since 1978.
It was Lightner who suggested the library as a gathering place for the group because of its location and evening time slot, she said.
“Once you start weaving, you get in the groove and it's very soothing,” she said. “We're all getting older so, if we want to hand it off, now's the time.”
This is an excerpt from a story appearing in Monday's Butler Eagle.
