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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

CNCHnet Fall Issue

The fall edition of CNCHnet, the e-Journal quarterly from CNCH, is online as of August 1. You will find reports on fun filled guild related summer activities, profiles of doyennes our fiber community, and ideas for using your artistic skills to help celebrate the upcoming Holidays. Our contributors have worked hard to make their articles […]

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

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