Category Archives: Fiber Arts
Jennifer Moore Workshop – for Weavers and Fiber Artists
The Reno Fiber Arts Guild is hosting a 3-day workshop by Jennifer Moore – Mathemagical Design – From Fibonacci to Fractals, May, 2011. (openings available) Have you ever been interested in exploring Geometric Design, The Golden Proportion, The Fibonacci Series, Symmetries and Tessellations, and Fractal Design? Have you ever wanted to work with these wonderful tools […]
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The Tamalpais Weavers’ Guild invites you the January 17 meeting, 7 pm, Marin Art and Garden Center, Francis Young Gallery, Ross. Judy Calder, our very own member, is our featured speaker. She will be discussing and demonstration weaving tansparencies. If you want to say something more permanent than, say, a Facebook entry that will be […]
Continue readingThe House For Nomads Tapestries: A Tale of Three Continents
A Morning With Michael F. Rohde at the Diablo Weavers Guild Meeting. January 21, 2011, 11AM In the summer of 2006, Michael Rohde spent a month traveling in the remote grasslands of eastern Tibet. The visit took him among nomadic yak herders, seldom visited villages and active monasteries. The trip was timed to allow visits […]
Continue readingSanta Cruz Handweavers Guild Meeting January 15, 2011
On January15, 2011, the Santa Cruz Handweavers Guild and The Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz will cosponsor the Nora Rogers Memorial Fiber Arts Lecture. The speaker, Desiree Koslin, will present Duodji Soft: Tradition, Authenticity and Innovation in Sami Textiles. The distinctive dress and fabrics of the once nomadic Sami people of northwestern […]
Continue readingSpindles & Flyers Workshop on Paper Making
Art Paper from Junk Mail A Paper Making Workshop with Frank Mikulastik Spindles & Flyers Guild is proud to present a class for anyone who has ever felt overwhelmed by junk mail. Frank Mikulastik will teach us how to turn unwanted mail and advertising into beautiful paper. Bring your unwanted colorful junk mail and advertising […]
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The Santa Cruz Handweavers Guild welcomes Joy Totah Hilden as its November meeting speaker. Since 1982, Joy had done field research on Bedouin weaving. With her husband, who taught in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, she traveled near and far in search of weaves whose knowledge of this fast-disappearing craft that she wants to […]
Continue readingBlack Sheep Handweavers Guild Oct 21st Meeting
Using a Knitting Machine for Multicolor Dyeing Our guest speaker, Nancy Roberts uses a knitting machine as a tool for multicolor dyeing. By dyeing knitted fabric, rather than dyeing skeins, she produces yarns with controlled repeats of color in subtle gradations. She uses her specially dyed yarns in knitting, weaving, crocheting and felting. An article […]
Continue readingCard Weaving Workshop with Gudrun Polak
The Silverado Guild is hosting a two-day workshop on card weaving with Gudrun Polak on November 6/7 in Napa. Gundrun, known for her wizardry with the cards, will be presenting the basics of card weaving with as many variations as will fit within the time and skills of her students. She will also demonstrate her […]
Continue readingFiber Arts Fair at Quail Hollow Ranch
Fiber Arts Fair: 101 Things to Do with String On Sunday, October 24, 2010, the County of Santa Cruz Department of Parks, Open Space and Cultural Services will host a fiber arts fair at Quail Hollow Ranch in Felton. Activities involving fiber include, but are not limited to, spinning, knitting, natural dyeing, braiding, rug hooking, […]
Continue readingSanta 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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