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The annual Ag Fair will be held at Ag Hall in West Tisbury. —Gabrielle Mannino West Tisbury has the most agricultural feel of all six Island towns — fitting that it hosts the Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Fair every year. From rolling farmlands to woody thickets to its small town center, the up-Island town has something for everyone, and we’d like to celebrate that. A brief history As the first mega-subdivision in Island history, Thomas Mayhew gave permission (in 1668) to Miles Standish’s son and some buddies to go up-Island from Great Harbor (Edgartown) and purchase whatever land they could from the Wampanoag owners of the area known then as Takemmy. The acres they eventually purchased became the town of Tisbury over the next few years. Tisbury originally included all of the land that is now the town of Vineyard Haven and some parts of what is now Chilmark. By 1694 Chilmark had officially split off, but it took 200 more years for the population of the original town center at W...

A monk, an Episcopalian sister and a “typical clergy spouse” talk about their experiences pursuing textile arts and the Divine. Brother Aidan Owen got into knitting because he needed a “winter sport.” A monk at Holy Cross Monastery in West Park, New York, Brother Aidan joined the order when he was 28 and immediately jumped into flower gardening as a way to contribute to his new community. But when cold weather forced him indoors for a season, he found himself antsy for another creative outlet.  Though some may imagine monks as figures from a bygone era, now-33-year-old Brother Aidan became a knitter the way many people his age do: through the internet. Brother Aidan relied on YouTube to help him build on the basic skills he’d been taught by a roommate in seminary, found himself connecting with fellow enthusiasts on Instagram and generally fell into what he calls the “black hole of knitting online.” Finding Brooklyn Tweed , a company known for contemporary, “not-your-granny’s” kni...

July 16, 2019 at 2:57 PM EDT – Updated July 17 at 1:18 PM Rita E. Ghostlaw, 76, of Fort Covington, went to be with her Lord on Monday, July 15, 2019 at the Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital. (Source: picture provided by funeral home) FORT COVINGTON, N.Y. (WWNY) – After a lengthy illness, Rita E. Ghostlaw, 76, of 41 Center Street, went to be with her Lord on Monday, July 15, 2019 at the Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital. Rita was born on February 23, 1943 in Malone, daughter of late James and Viola (Moquin) Dow. She was a graduate of Salmon River Central School and Pauline’s Beauty School in Watertown. She married Bruce F. Ghostlaw on August 31, 1963 at St. Mary’s of the Fort Catholic Church. Bruce predeceased her on July 14, 2001. Rita owned and operated Rita’s Beauty Shop in Fort Covington for over 50 years. As a hairdresser, she was active with NYS Hairdressers Association and founder of the Look Good Feel Better Program for cancer patients. She was...

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  Israeli startup Twine wants to be the print-on-demand service for thread. Print-on-demand technology revolutionized the book industry, allowing publishers to eliminate costly inventory and warehousing by printing books only in response to customer orders. As with books, Twine’s new Digital Thread Dyeing System allows clothing manufacturers to color plain white thread by feeding the raw materials into a textile-specific digital printer only as needed. The resulting digitally dyed threads can be used in sewing, knitting and embroidery. It’s a radical change from the way the industry has always operated, Yariv Bustan, Twine’s vice president of product and marketing tells ISRAEL21c. Twine invented a digital printing process for dyeing thread on demand. Photo by Ofir Abe The traditional process is both time-consuming and polluting; it starts when a manufacturer sends an order to a thread dyeing factory, usually in India or China. A sample is dyed and shipped overseas to the ma...

19 th July 2019, Barcelona Santoni celebrated its 100th anniversary at ITMA 2019 in Barcelona. © Knitting Industry. Italian circular knitting machine manufacturer Santoni, famous for its seamless knitting technology, celebrated ‘100 years of technological revolution’ at ITMA 2019, which took place from 20-26 June in Barcelona. The Brescia based company showcased its latest seamless circular knitting machines, together with sock knitting machines, large diameter fabric knitting machines and some new finishing technologies. Also, on show in Barcelona were its patented intarsia X and XT Machines , a new automatic finishing system for seamless boxers, and the innovative K Fabric Project, a new knitted textile process. On Santoni’s double storey 1400 square metre booth, manufacturers of underwear, sportswear, beachwear, outerwear, medical textiles, denim, smart-textiles, socks and footwear explored all the newly patented machines, innovative production processes and a ded...

An animal lover who spends her time knitting crafts for a charity that helps vulnerable cats and dogs has won a community hero award. Brenda Beazley, 69, has won the award because of the charity work she completes for the National Animal Welfare Trust (NAWT) in Hertfordshire. Mrs Beazley met the charity when she adopted her seven-year-old lurcher dog, Tyler in 2011 and saw the difference a pet can make to their owner. She said: “The dog was to be company for my husband who had been very ill and was not in work at the time. “He was feeling low because he was at home alone all day whilst I was at work. The dog made such a difference to him and got him out of the house. “The staff at NAWT were obviously dedicated to rehoming unwanted pets and we immediately decided to support them initially by way of donations.” Mrs Beazley retired from her position as Facilities Manager for Harrow Council in 2015 and she began to take up knitting and thought with her spare ...