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Sacramento Weavers & Spinners Guild Open House
The Sacramento Weavers and Spinners Guild will hold their 2011 Annual Open House, “Tradition and Innovation” on Saturday & Sunday, February 12 & 13 at the Shepard Garden & Arts Center, 3330 McKinley Blvd, Sacramento, CA, from 10:00-4:00. Free to the public. We will have displays of items made by members, demonstrations, hands-on, sale of member created […]
Continue readingStop 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 […]
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 readingGlenna Harris Guild Sponsors Sister Guild in Guatemala
2011 will be the second year the Glenna Harris Weavers Guild has elected to sponsor a sister guild’s membership in WARP (Weave a Real Peace). The Te Ixchel weavers live on the western side of Lake Atitlan in the area of San Pedro la Laguna. We are very pleased to have made this connection and […]
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 […]
Continue readingDid someone notice the holiday season is here?
Help! My calendar says it is November. There are expectations for clever people like us for hand made gifts. Our friends and family depend on them year to year. You are not going to get away with a department store purchase. So how about learning a completely new technique now and ply your friends with all the experimental […]
Continue readingSanta 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 […]
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 […]
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