Table of Contents

Dedication Acknowledgements Prologue An Introduction to Taipeis Gael Founder of Taipeis Gael, Monica de Bath Mentors Mary McNelis Con O'Gara Rose Hegarty Jimmy Carr Taipeis Gael Administrator, Annie McGinley Taipeis Gael Weavers Margaret Cunningham Dermot Cannon Maire McGinley Conal McIntyre Gallery of Tapestries St Colmcille The Famine Symbols and Legends Cross-Cultural Expressions The Tools Whorls Wheels: James Shiels, Master Spinning Wheelwright The Raw Materials Sheep and Wool Natural Dyes A Dyer's Journal and Glossary of Dyes Afterword; A Future For Taipeis Gael? Endnotes Further Reading

About the Author

Meghan Nuttall Sayres writes and weaves in Eastern Washington where she lives. Laurence Boland, Dublin, is a member of the Press Photographer's Association Ireland, the N.V.J., and contributes to Ireland's Sunday Tribune newspaper

Reviews

In this beautifully wrought chronicle , Meghan Nuttall Sayres has drawn from the past to celebrate the present and future of Taipeis Gael, a tapestry weaving collective of international reputation in Donegal, Ireland. This group of dedicated artists has created a body of work whose compelling imagery, both pictorial and abstract, evokes a powerful sense of their ancient land --a land of rock and of sea, of wool and of natural dyes, of textiles past and of textiles yet to be created. Sayres has woven tapestries, photographs and the very words of the people themselves into a visual and narrative feast from which I could hardly bear to emerge. Sarah Swett, tapestry weaver and author of Kids Weaving.