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Expertly handwoven Tea Towels

Expertly handwoven Tea Towels

Join us Saturday, August 9 at the Weavers Guild of

Join us Saturday, August 9 at the Weavers Guild of Greater Cincinnati, 4870 Gray Rd, to shop our Second Saturdays @ The Guild Fiber Arts Market. All items are made by Weavers Guild artisans. Shop for accessories, clothing, household textiles, jewelry, and other pieces of fiber art. Bring a friend and treat yourself to something wonderful or buy a gift for a special celebration.

Make-it-Take-it: Mud-resist Indigo Dye Bandanas
Explore the world of natural dyes with indigo! Using a resist-dye paste method made from mud, participants will design their own bandana using stamps, stencils or freehand, and then dye it permanently blue with a natural vat of indigo. Please plan to spend at least 45 minutes working on this craft, and wear clothes/shoes that you don’t mind getting dirty. All materials will be supplied for a fee of $10 per one bandana. Limited quantity of bandanas, so get there early before we run out!

Demo this month is Weaving on a Floor Loom with David

Come to Second Saturdays at the Guild on August 9

Come to Second Saturdays at the Guild on August 9 from 10-2. Shop our Fiber Arts Market, see a floor loom weaving demo and try your hand at indigo dying with mud-resist to make a dyed bandana. The dyeing activity is only $10 per bandana and takes about 45 minutes. Bandanas are limited so come early! See what we are all about and think about joining the guild!

It’s a great time to join the WGGC! Our new gui

It’s a great time to join the WGGC! Our new guild year began July 1 and memberships for the 25-26 guild year are now available. You will have all the benefits of membership through June 30 of 2026. Link in bio for more info.

Membership Rates for Guild Year 2025-2026 (Begins July 1, 2025 end June 30 2026)

Full Year Membership: for those joining between July 1, 2025 and January 6, 2026 – $75
Half Year Membership: for those joining after January 6, 2026 – $40
Under 30 Membership: for those born on or after July 1, 1995 – $40
Family Membership: for those in the same household – $90
Distance Membership; for those living more than 150 miles from the Guild House – $40

Wonderful meeting on Saturday in Art and Design wi

Wonderful meeting on Saturday in Art and Design with Fiber (ADF) Study Group. We could have stayed all day! Here are samples of collages (still in progress) that we started.

Join us Saturday, July 12 at the Weavers Guild of

Join us Saturday, July 12 at the Weavers Guild of Greater Cincinnati, 4870 Gray Rd, to shop our Second Saturdays @ The Guild Fiber Arts Market. All items are made by Weavers Guild artisans. Shop for accessories, clothing, household textiles, jewelry, and other pieces of fiber art. Bring a friend and treat yourself to something wonderful or buy a gift for a special celebration.

Make It Take It: One Sheet Books
Making books doesn’t have to be complicated. One sheet of paper, with
minimal folding/cutting, can create a number of different book forms.
Come play with paper - a different form of fiber!
Fee: $1/person, up to 5 books
No age limit.

Demo this month is Card Weaving with Janet.

- Over 5 days from July 14-18 we have 17 classes s

- Over 5 days from July 14-18 we have 17 classes scheduled including 12 different fiber arts.
- Most are 1/2 day sessions.
- Many are suitable for children accompanied by an adult.
- For the complete list and more information go to the link in our bio.

“Fiber Fascination” an exhibit by Weavers Guil

“Fiber Fascination” an exhibit by Weavers Guild of Greater Cincinnati members, Kitty Uetz and Cindy Sturdevant is underway at Oakley Redtree Art & Coffee, 3210 Madison Road, Cincinnati, OH 45209. Exhibit will run through Friday, Sept. 26, 2025. Oakley Redtree is open 8am-4pm severn days a week.

Images are left to right Silk Collages by Kitty Uetz. Kitty. Hannah (Gallery Director), and Cindy. Punch Needle pieces by Cindy

Join us Saturday, June 14 at the Weavers Guild of

Join us Saturday, June 14 at the Weavers Guild of Greater Cincinnati, 4870 Gray Rd, to shop our Second Saturdays @ The Guild Fiber Arts Market. All items are made by Weavers Guild artisans. Shop for accessories, clothing, household textiles, jewelry, and other pieces of fiber art. Bring a friend and treat yourself to something wonderful or buy a gift for a special celebration.

Try your hand at sewing with our Make It, Take It: Make a unique zippered pouch. Choose your fabric (three options) Material fee $8.00.
No experience needed.

See an Inkle Loom Weaving Demo. Band weaving on an Inkle Loom is a fun portable way to weave!

Throwback Thursday
Swatch Watch
2014-2015 Weaver’s Guild of Greater Cincinnati
Chair-Ruth Archer,
Committee-Millie Stratton, Diana Green
Weaver: Nancy Core
Structure: Plattvav, a type of Monk’s Belt Shafts: 4 Sett: 20 epi
Warp and Tabby: 8/2 cotton (red and blue) Pattern: 5/2 navy perle cotton
Source: A swatch woven by Ann Haushild for the Convergence 2000 swatch exchange Munkabalte or Monk’s Belt, a common four-shaft technique, became popular in Scandinavia in the 17’h and 18” centuries. It was used for coverlets, curtains, table covers and aprons. It is a simplified two-shuttle. usually two-block overshot weave without halftones. Monk’s belt is associated with an eight-pointed star motif and often used for borders. Less commonly monk’s belt is woven in 4 blocks and covers the whole surface.
Ulla Cyrus-Zetterstrom notes that there are many patterns which have the same binding construction as monk’s belt, but which do not have the eight-pointed star. Hajomdrall from the Swedish province Vastergotland has a four-pointed star and many columns of lines. In Malungsflock from the province of Dalarna, there is a square pattern that covers the whole surface, as in the weave that in Swedish is called plattvav, the latter being the proper name for our swatch design.
This piece might be described as Swedish weaving through an American filter. Although the source in this case is not a Swedish one, the structure is very much so. In order to use it Nancy had to reduce Haushild’s draft to fit the swatch size required here. She did a good job of retaining the characteristics of the original in doing so. She notes that this heavy fabric is suitable for a runner as Haushild intended or for placemats. She reports lengthwise shrinkage of 6.9% and widthwise shrinkage of 9.4%.

Member Monday! Martha just finished a new strap fo

Member Monday!
Martha just finished a new strap for her purse. She used 44 cards, on an @malarky.crafts tablet weaving loom, the yarn is 10/2 mercerized cotton from @lunaticfringeyarns and the backing strap and hardware were from a local yarn shop @silkroadtextiles Beautiful work Martha!

Throwback Thursday to Swatch Watch 2014-2015 Chair

Throwback Thursday to
Swatch Watch 2014-2015
Chair-Ruth Archer, Committee-Millie Stratton, Diana Green
Weaver: Sue Parker Bassett Structure: Dubbelbindning Shafts: 4 Sett: 24 epi
Warp: 22/2 cottolin, white
Pattern: 22/2 colored cottolin
Sources: Inga Krook writing in Handwoven, M/J, 1983.
Leena Svensson “44 Vavar av En Cottolin Varp”

Double Binding is a weft-backed structure having one warp and a system of face and reverse (complementary) wefts. It is most often used as a rag rug weave with an (apparent) plain weave surface, but Svensson shows projects utilizing a variety of wefts including an all-cottolin table square. She gives an interesting alternative draft that produces a different surface texture with two-pick floats. Her draft and a third variant are given on the back of this page. The swatch draft is the more common one used by Krook.

Sue reports having to use a very firm beat, and was not comfortable with the result. She also said the yarn was sticky to work with. A looser sett would probably have made her work easier and would have produced denser color. Again, Swedish setts are often very close so opening them up a bit is often desirable.

On a more positive note Sue comments that designing by varying the number of repeats in a block and by color choice is easy. She adds that there is a change in shafts being raised when changing blocks. The number three shaft is raised for the last pick in Block A and the number two shaft is raised for the first pick of Block B. It looks like a doubled number of ends or a mistake when weaving tabby. It is however correct and is not noticed when weaving pattern. Thanks Sue!

Throw back Thursday to Swatch Watch 2014-2015. S

Throw back Thursday to Swatch Watch 2014-2015.

Swatch Watch
2014-2015 Weaver’s Guild of greater Cincinnati
Chair-Ruth Archer, Committee-Millie Stratton, Diana Green
Weaver: Karen Schnee Structure: Halvdrall Shafts: 4 Sett: 36 epi Warp: 16/2
bleached cotton Tabby: 16/1 half-bleached linen Pattern: doubled 16/1 colored linen Source: Pattern published in Vav 2/12, from the book Design and Weave by Ann-Mari Nilsson

Halvdrall is a versatile structure used in all sorts of different materials and for many different purposes from linens to rugs. The materials used here are found quite often in Swedish projects and the doubling of the weft is also characteristic.
Nilsson suggests customizing halvdrall designs by using different colors in the same cloth and by varying the height of the blocks. She also recommends throwing the left tabby while pressing the left plain weave treadle and throwing from the right when pressing the right plain weave treadle to keep the plain weave in order.

Karen added a floating selvedge to achieve her double weft by throwing the shuttle twice in the same shed, going around the floating selvedge between picks. When at first the pattern didn’t come out quite right she found that the error was in having an uneven number of (doubled) picks in some of the blocks. That corrected, the result is the beautiful swatch given here. This piece exhibited 3% shrinkage in width and 8% shrinkage in length.

Thanks Karen for an especially elegant piece of weaving!

Here are projects made by the students in our Crac $Here are projects made by the students in our Crackle Weave class that finished recently. Barb Gallagher was the teacher, and she’s lining up some great intermediate weaving classes for next year. Follow us on Eventbrite from our Linktree in our bio to get notifications when we had new classes. What is crackle weave you ask? Crackle weave is a block weave structure based on twill, characterized by a “crackled” or fractured appearance due to the way threads are interlaced. It’s often referred to as jamtlandsdrall in Swedish, and the name crackle was given by Mary Meigs Atwater to reflect its resemblance to crackled pottery glazes. It uses a combination of twill-like threading blocks to create a wide range of patterns, from simple twills to complex geometric shapes.$

See you at the Guild House on Saturday! 10-2. We

See you at the Guild House on Saturday! 10-2. We feature gorgeous hand crafted textiles made by WGGC artisans. Make a fabric flower 🌺 with your Mom. See a weaving demo!

Stop by and shop when you are in the neighborhood getting your spring plants at one of the nearby greenhouses. @funkesgreenhouse @wildwood_flora @aj_rahn_greenhouses

Repost from @abbydid • 1. Moms like flowers. 2.

Repost from @abbydid
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1. Moms like flowers.
2. Mother’s Day is next Sunday.
3. I’m leading a make-it-take-it workshop next Saturday at the Weavers Guild, where for a materials fee of $5 you can make a flower and take it home.

That’s a win win win, my friends. You can show up anytime between 10am-2pm at the Guild. It’s part of Secind Saturday, when the shop is open and the house is full of fun and activity! Hope to see you there!

🌼🌸👘🌸🌼🌸👘🌸🌼🌸👘🌸🌼

#abbydid #flowermaking #flowermakingclasses #workshop #thanksimadeit #kanzashi #secondsaturday #weaversguildofgreatercincinnati #weaversguild

Join us Saturday, May 10 at the Weavers Guild of G

Join us Saturday, May 10 at the Weavers Guild of Greater Cincinnati, 4870 Gray Rd, to shop our Second Saturdays @ The Guild Fiber Arts Market. All items are made by Weavers Guild artisans. Shop for accessories, clothing, household textiles, jewelry, and other pieces of fiber art. Bring your Mom and treat yourself or her to something wonderful or buy a gift for a special celebration.

Our Make It, Take It features Kanzashi Flowers with Abby Langdon
Come make fabric floral accessories using the Japanese technique of kanzashi. Each petal is folded like origami, then sewn together to make one beautiful blossom that can then be worn using an alligator clip in your hair, on your lapel, or anywhere else you like.
Materials Fee: $5
Age Range: 10 and up

See a Floor Loom Weaving Demo with Claudia!

Throwback Thursday from the guild swatch watch arc

Throwback Thursday from the guild swatch watch archives.

8 HARNESS STRAIGHT TWILL
The 8 harness twill sample was woven by Jane Busse and was treadled in a manner called Diced Crow, by Sallie O’Sullivan.

This is only one threadling of thousands possible. Jane has used blue and natural
18/2 wool worsted from Clasgens.
The check is formed with an 8 - 8 stripe in the warp and weft.

A very interesting pattern is formed in the solid areas. This would be very effective as dress fabric or almost any clothing fabric. Shrinkage is 1” in 1 yd. width and 1” per yd. in length.

Beautiful kitchen towels made by member Karen S.

Beautiful kitchen towels made by member Karen S. Saturday May 10th is our next Second Saturdays at the Guild Fiber Arts Market.

#weavingwednesday

Join us Saturday, April 12 at the Weavers Guild of

Join us Saturday, April 12 at the Weavers Guild of Greater Cincinnati, 4870 Gray Rd, to shop our Second Saturdays @ The Guild Fiber Arts Market. All items are made by Weavers Guild artisans. Shop for accessories, clothing, household textiles, jewelry, and other pieces of fiber art. Treat yourself to something wonderful or buy a gift for a special celebration!

Our Make It, Take It features Fabric Buttons with Caren
Scraps of fabric, plastic rings, and cardboard are used to make fabric buttons that can also be used as pendants or brooches. All materials provided. $2 materials fee.

Yarn Spinning demo with Janet.

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