HSWG is sponsoring a comprehensive study for beginning weavers this year. The objective of the program is to gain comfort with planning and design, reading drafts, warping the loom, weaving, and finishing projects. There will be 2 easy towel designs that are quick to warp and weave, giving you experience…
Good times were had by all at Elaine Beagley’s dryer ball workshop on October 21. Participants learned how to needle-felt dryer balls and add decorative designs.
A 2-day class with Annette Schipf, May 20–21, 2023. In this round-robin workshop, each person threaded their own loom to a “type” of color and weave structure, such as twill, point twill, huck, log cabin, shadow weave, etc. Then everyone wove a sample on each loom. There is a wealth…
Weaving on a rigid heddle loom is fun and easy. The looms are small and portable and your pattern can be as simple or as complicated as you like. Participants in Joanne’s February 18–19, 2023, class enjoyed learning about color, design, and texture with some easy-to-learn techniques. Also discussed were…
In celebration of 100 years of distance-learning in weaving, this overshot challenge has been based on a lesson from Mary Meigs Shuttle Craft Guild Lessons, in which she requests her students to weave a sampler in overshot for her to review. To facilitate this challenge, weaver Elizabeth Tritthart has developed…
Helena Spinners’ and Weavers’ Guild is proud to announce that Guild member Dawn Ahlert is a 2022 recipient of the Certificate of Excellence (COE) in Handweaving, Level 2, from the The Handweavers Guild of America, Inc. Dawn began experimenting with fiber arts at a young age, and her passion for learning has…
