International Damask Network Newsletter.

"The Spring / Summer 2016issue of our Newsletter came out recently. This time the Newsletter is distributed among a smaller number of members as we did a steamlining of our mailing list. We excluded members that did not weave Damask anymore or did not participate in sending in from time to time an article, this being the only requirement for our members. Now we have about one hundred actve weavers and hope to get sufficient input for the coming years.

Of course we have send the members to be removed from thr mailing list twice an email if they liked to continue. Only those that told us they were not longer interested or did not respond at all have been discarded.

For the remainig part of the text, please scroll till below the slide show (updated per Npvember 2015).

When this is your first visit to this site we advise you to look at the menu item About this site to read about the ideas and purpose of this site and the International Damask Network Group.

First visit to this site?

Please also take a look to the text History of the Network(below)

Here some pictures of work of our members, Network exhibitions, etc.

 

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Please leave a message in our guestbook

(Please scrol down there for the entries of others)

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We have also refreshed our front page slide show a little with some new pictures pictures of some of our members.

Please note that the current version of this site has the following URL: http://home.hccnet.nl/l.diepenbroek.

Want to become a member too? Read the info below.

We should like to invite you in sending us (either by our mail address Laura Diepenbroek or through our guestbook below) data about interesting exhibitions for weavers and interesting websites. We then can publish them in a special chapter of this website or in the coming Newsletter.

 

 The history of the International Damask Network

Approx.eightteen years ago (on 17th April 1997 to be precise) Mr. Maurice Piot, who lived in the Swiss village of Gland near Lausanne, took the initiative to bring together Damask weavers from all over the world. As an enthusiastic promoter for Damask and Damask (hand)weaving he also took the initiative to publish a quarterly Damask Newsletter. Over the years this Newsletter gained momentum and grew from simple black and white copied pages into a readable and colorful quarterly (now sent free of charge by e-mail to all members).

At this moment approx. 130 weavers are a member of our International Network. They share their experiences, inspire each other and participate in international exhibitions of their work.

This truly international group has members in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark,France, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, the USA, Sweden and Switzerland. The membership is totally free of charge. The only request is that members are prepared to send information or an article about damask weaving at least once in two years and want to introduce themselves and tell us what they are weaving..

This simple website serves as a means of communication between members and to publish their contributions or read contributions of others. We have added a questbook (see below) and hope this will help communication among the members (and others interested in damask weaving).

When you are interested in a previous issue of our Newsletter, please send an e-mail to Mail to Laura and Jan and we will gladly send it to you bij sending you an email link to dropbox, where you can download it..

When you want something to be published, have suggestions or else, please also send an e-mail to Mail to Laura and Jan

 

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