February General Meeting - Ruth Warbington - Kumiko

Guild General Meeting - 7-9

Social time 6:30

Ruth Warbington - Kumiko

An Introductory Tour of Kumiko

For those of you who missed Mike Pekovich’s kumiko class back in November, don’t worry. We have our very own kumiko woodworker in Ruth Warbington, and she will be giving us an introduction to this beautiful Japanese art form.

      the Asanoha pattern and tools of Kumiko

  Kumiko is part of the Japanese shoji (Japanese screens)    tradition. Kumiko are the thin wooden slats that support    the rice paper in shoji screens. Kumiko is also the            decorative patterns that embellish shoji and other panels    in traditional Japanese rooms. Ruth will provide some  background and show examples. 

 Nifty kumiko patterns are popping up in furniture, lamps, boxes,  and wall hangings. Woodworkers are also incorporating kumiko  patterns into furniture.  Ruth will show us some of these new  ways that kumiko is being used. There is a lot of variety out  there. 

Shoji screen with Kumiko patterns

           Ruth became interested in kumiko after seeing several interesting uses of kumiko inFine Woodworkingmagazine. And she thought it looked like something that would be interesting to try with our Women’s SIG. Now she’s teaching classes on kumiko for the Guild (look for “Coasting into kumiko”). The January classes were sold out, but look for more in the future. 

Box from the Pekovic class using the Asanoh pattern

 Also check out a brief bio of Ruth in the November Newsletter,  page 4. The same Newsletter also has two articles on Mike  Pekovich’s class, one by Steve Poland and a second by me  (pp. 6-10). Check these out.

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