Not all of the guild books sold on eBay. Today is the last day of the auction with one more book that will sell for sure. And today I was able to access the financial statement of how the auction went so far.
The books went for less than I'd hoped, but for 'fair' prices (the ones that did sell), and we have raised some money for the guild.
Given Doug has been trying to get a donated 'loom' functional and it can't be assembled because it is not complete, I am going to suggest that some of the auction funds go towards making the Leclerc Nilus loom functional again by buying new parts from Leclerc.
We were told that the loom was complete, but when the guys went to pick it up, it was in pieces and it was hard to tell if everything was there. When they got the parts back to the guild room, it was discovered that there were 3/4s of two looms. One is an old M model and I may suggest we discard that, but the other is a Nilus model. However, it needs treadles and the brake system is not complete. It's going to take about $500 (or more) to buy the new parts, but that will at least make the loom functional again.
We have one more loom that is being offered to the guild, and I *think* that one is complete. We are trying to clear the two partial ones out of the guild room before moving that one in.
Our guild room is larger than most guilds are able to have, but we also have a very active group of spinners and felters. We are growing our other textile arts members, and we have a few new weavers that I'd like to see grow some more. Maybe once all of this loom reconstruction has been done, the auction is over and so on, I will have more energy to encourage the new weavers in their learning journey.
To those who bought books, thank you! Such a relief to find such nice books a good new home.
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