Sewing Your Precious Handwoven Fabric

Dig deep into your closet and find something from your hippie past.  We are having a treat.  The Tamalpais Weavers’ Guild welcomes Alexandra Jacopetti Hart.  She will speak about tapestry, embroidery and surface design for wearables, her Folkwear Ethnic Patterns, and Native Funk & Flash, An Emerging Folk Art, Scrimshaw Press, 1974.  Let’s really dress up and […]

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Santa Cruz Handweaver Guild Meeting – October 13, 2010

The Santa Cruz Handweavers Guild is pleased to host Barbara Stafford, a spinner, weaver and rug maker working with fiber from a diverse group of animals, at its October meeting.   Barbara’s passion for spinning, weaving and rug making was awakened 25 years ago during a 6-year experience raising sheep in Indiana.  After returning to California, […]

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CNCH 2011 Scholarship

CNCH is offering 5 scholarships for CNCH 2011 in Sutter Creek of $285 each.  One scholarship will be awarded for each of the five areas of CNCH.  This is not a need based scholarship.  Scholarships are judged on a blind basis, the only information the judges have is the area but no names or guilds.  […]

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Golden Gate Guild Fall Activities

September 20, 2010: Kate Colwell will show and tell about her visit to Guatemala with Mayan Hands, a fair trade organization promoting economic independence for Mayan weavers.  September 26, 2010: Workshop with Nancy Roberts.  Nancy uses machine knitted silk as a tool for multicolor dyeing, then unravels the yarn for weaving. There are still space in […]

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News from CNCH 2011

The Liaison Luncheon is next on the agenda.  If you are your guild’s liaison I hope you have sent in your invitation and payment to the address listed on your invitation.  At this point in time there are about 14 of the 28 guilds in the organization have responded.  Personally, I am encouraged.  I know […]

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Busy Season for Fresno Weavers and Spinners

Fresno Weavers and Spinners will once again, year 20, present at the largest Civil War Re-enactment West of the Mississippi.  The event is held at Kearney Park, just west of Fresno, annually every fall, usually in October but the actual event date is variable. We have spinning, weaving, bobbin-lace, basketry, needle felting, knitting, crocheting, hair-pin […]

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CNCH 2012

CNCH 2012 conference will be May 18-20, 2012 at the Oakland Convention Center.   The convention center and hotel complex are going through a renovation both in their meeting rooms and sleeping rooms that will completed this winter.  We are taking over all the public rooms so it will be an intimate situation with only our group using […]

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Santa Cruz Handweavers Guild September Meeting

The Santa Cruz Handweavers Guild offers members the opportunity to share common interests by participating in study groups focused on different aspects of weaving.  One of these study groups, the Rug Study Group, meets regularly.  Its members, Janette Gross, Janet Pollack, Laura Rider, Martha Stanley and Joan Vierra, will share their experiences at the September […]

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Diablo Weavers Guild

Diablo Weavers meets once a month, Sept. – Nov. and Jan. – May on the third Friday of the month at the Thurman G. Casey Library, 2661 Oak Grove Rd. Walnut Creek, 10 AM. We encourage new members interested in weaving to join, or any interested guests at any of our meetings. Please check the […]

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Four Selvages and More

Welcome back from summer vacation, or from working all summer, whichever.  Monday, September 20, 2010, the Tamalpais Weavers’ Guild is honored to have Staphanie T Hoppe as our first speaker for the 2010-2011 season.   The meeting takes place in the Francis Young Gallery, Marin Art and Garden Center, 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Ross, […]

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