Category Archives: Weaving
Get away from that TV! You’ve got a date: Monday, April 19th, 7 pm
Please joint the Tamalpais Weavers’ Guild at the Marin Art and Garden Center, 30 Sir Francis Drake Bl, Ross. We are so pleased to entice Linda away from her studio to speak. LINDA HARTSHORN has created hundreds of yards of beautiful textiles over the last twenty-five years. Her specialty is incorporating unique dyework into her […]
Continue readingBlack Sheep Handweavers Guild April 15th Meeting
Dévoré for Weavers & Knitters Our guest speaker, Anne Field teacher and author from New Zealand, will be sharing her tips and tricks with Dévoré. Dévoré is a technique we are familiar with when it is applied to velvet cloth. With handwoven and machine or hand knitted cloth made of both cellulose and other yarns, […]
Continue readingAnne Field Workshop – for Weavers
Anne Field, a popular teacher and author from New Zealand, will be presenting a workshop on collapse weave in April, sponsored by Black Sheep Handweavers Guild. COLLAPSE WEAVE — THE MAGIC OF WOOL (2 Day Workshop): In this workshop students will weave and finish several samples to gain an understanding of the structure of collapse […]
Continue readingFIBER AND DYE EXHIBIT AT U.C. BOTANICAL GARDEN
Golden Gate Weavers’ Guild is doing a weaving demonstration in connection with the above exhibit. There will be two classes Saturday April 3 from 1- 2 and from 2:30 – 3:30.
Continue readingMarch 22, Fieldtrip to UC Botanical Garden.
Golden Gate Weavers’ Guild is having a fieldtrip to U.C. Botanical Garden March 22 at 10 am. We will be given a docent-led tour of the garden and then go to view the Fiber and Dye Exhibit at the Garden.
Continue readingBlack Sheep Handweavers Guild March Meeting
Warp and Weft Painting Blacksheep member Ulla de Larios will be sharing her “exploration in cloth” with us. Initially, her teen-age experiences with Flemish Tapestry set her on a course to find another way to create images on cloth. Trying different techniques she settled on Warp and Weft Painting as the ultimate process for creating […]
Continue readingMark you calendar for March 15
Please join us on Monday evening, March 15, 7 pm. We are the Tamalpais Weavers’ Guild and have Stacy Speyer as our guest speaker! Marin Art and Garden Center, Francis Young Gallery, 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Ross, CA. Stacy Speyer will be giving a presentation on her woven art work, dyeing process, and current explorations. Since 1996, she […]
Continue readingSanta Cruz Handweavers Guild Meeting, March 10, 2010
Suki Russack, an accomplished musician, began weaving in 2002 while a graduate student at San Francisco State College. It wasn’t until 2006 that she found her voice as a textile artist. At that time, she began to explore the female form as a vehicle for her own spiritual growth. She considers her work to be […]
Continue readingBlack Sheep Handweavers Guild Workshops
Anne Field, a popular teacher and author, will be presenting two workshops in April, sponsored by Black Sheep Handweavers Guild. She will be coming to California from New Zealand to teach at the CNCH Conference earlier in the month. Anne Field Workshops April 2010 FOR WEAVERS COLLAPSE WEAVE — THE MAGIC OF WOOL (2 […]
Continue readingSanta Cruz Handweavers Guild February Meeting
If you’ve wanted to know more about Navajo weaving, be certain to attend the next Santa Cruz Handweavers Guild meeting. Guild member, Bambi Jones, will present a program about Navajo weaving. Based on her studies with Marilyn Brandon at Cabrillo College and her work with native weaver Sarah Natani at Table Mesa, New Mexico, Bambi […]
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