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Stop Being So Transparent

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 […]

The 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 […]

Santa Cruz Handweavers Guild Meeting

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 […]

Black 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 […]

Card 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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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, […]

Traditional Lao Textile Lecture and Workshops

The Silverado Guild is sponsoring a presentation and trunk show with Kongthong Nanthanvongdouangsy in Napa on Thursday July 8th, and workshops on Tuesday and Wednesday July 6th and 7th. Kongthong is a master weaver who together with her sister owns of the Phaeng Mai Gallery in Vientiane. Kongthong will describe the history and background of […]

Studio 49 5th Annual Retreat

Registration is now open for the Studio 49 Annual Retreat. We will be dyeing and spinning. There will be a weaving demonstration. Friday October 22 to Sunday October 24. There is also Saturday only registration. For more information and the registration form go to the Retreat page of our MotherLode Weavers and Spinners website. www.mlwsguild.org