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Repost from @lisakimknits • In our beginning Weavi Repost from @lisakimknits • In our beginning Weaving 301 course, we learned to read and follow instructions for more complicated drafts. We learned to weave different structures, including Plain Weave, Twill, Rosepath, Overshot, and Huck. Threading for these structures and treadling these structures gave us a little sample of all of the different combinations which you can see in the gamp! (Photos 1 & 2) Linda taught this class once again, and both Natalie and Laura were my classmates from the very beginning! Evan joined us for this one too. It was a good weekend, and I’m inspired once again and can’t wait to work on my loom with these structures! Be sure to check out @weaversguildcincinnati for weaving classes! There are tons of wonderful classes this summer! (Top is #florespullover by @eritml) #weaving #weavers #weavinggamp
Join us on June 13 for Second Saturdays at the Gui Join us on June 13 for Second Saturdays at the Guild. We will have a fiber arts marketplace, selling handmade items made by Guild members. There will be a demonstration of spinning on a great wheel by Master Spinner Pat Maley, and a Make It Take It activity to create cyanotype prints (sun printing) for $2.50 a sheet. Put it on your calendar now to shop and check out the Weaver Guild of Greater Cincinnati. We also have an exhibit to view on our gallery walls by artist in residence Jonpaul Smith, who will be holding a workshop, Weaving with Paper Ephemera, later in June at the guild house. Check out his art and sign up for the workshop! Saturday, June 13 from 10 AM to 2 PM at the Weavers Guild of Greater Cincinnati, 4870 Gray Rd. 45232
Join us on May 9 for Second Saturdays at the Guild Join us on May 9 for Second Saturdays at the Guild. We will have a fiber arts marketplace, selling handmade items made by Guild members. There will be demonstrations of making and using natural plant dyes to paint on cloth and a free Make It Take It activity to make pompoms for ages 7 and up. Bring your mom and/or daughter as a fun outing for Mother’s Day. Put it on your calendar now to shop and check out the Weaver Guild of Greater Cincinnati. Saturday, May 9 from 10 AM to 2 PM at the Weavers Guild of Greater Cincinnati, 4870 Gray Rd. 45232
Join us on May 9 for Second Saturdays at the Guild Join us on May 9 for Second Saturdays at the Guild. We will have a fiber arts marketplace, selling handmade items made by Guild members. There will be demonstrations of making and using natural plant dyes to paint on cloth and a free Make It Take It activity to make pompoms for ages 7 and up. Bring your mom and/or daughter as a fun outing for Mother’s Day. Put it on your calendar now to shop and check out the Weaver Guild of Greater Cincinnati. Saturday, May 9 from 10 AM to 2 PM at the Weavers Guild of Greater Cincinnati, 4870 Gray Rd. 45232
Janie Yates one of our excellent weaving teachers Janie Yates one of our excellent weaving teachers at the WGGC was demonstrating weaving at the Jane Austin Festival this past weekend in Sharon Woods Heritage Village Museum. The loom she was weaving on was given to her in 2022 and she has donated it to Sharon Woods Village. It is about 170 years old. It remained in one family near Morehead, KY for its entire life until being given to her. She restored it with the help of her neighbor Clark Ramey making some new treddles, shaft bars, lamms and gable supports and with guild member Cece Karbowski for hours of cleaning, sanding and application of tung oil. The barn loom is living in the Vorhees house now at the village. It is happy now to be living in a building that’s only a decade or so older than it is. The, many visitors over the weekend loved to watch her weave and enjoyed her chatter about the loom and hisory of weaving in early America.
Happy new weavers in our Beginning Rigid Heddle We Happy new weavers in our Beginning Rigid Heddle Weaving class today.
Join us on April 11 for Second Saturdays at the Gu Join us on April 11 for Second Saturdays at the Guild. We will have a fiber arts marketplace, selling handmade items made by Guild members. There will be demonstrations of Estonian Roosimine knitting and a Make It Take It activity to make dryer balls for a $5 fee Put it on your calendar now to shop and check out the Weaver Guild of Greater Cincinnati. Saturday, April 11 from 10 AM to 2 PM at the Weavers Guild of Greater Cincinnati, 4870 Gray Rd. 45232
Stop in tomorrow at second Saturdays at the Guild Stop in tomorrow at second Saturdays at the Guild and shop for all kinds of fiber art: unique clothing, household textiles, and accessories! We’ll also have demos of spinning and weaving going on and a fun craft to make and take with you. See you at the Guild!
Throwback Thursday to January 1989 Swatch Watch Throwback Thursday to January 1989 Swatch Watch 8-HARNESS, 3-COLOR POLYCHROME USING PRIMARY COLORS Woven by: Bea Nowicki Adapted from Harriet Tidball’s Monograph “The Double Weave Plain and Patterned” “Literally polychrome means many colors. Technically, In textile design, it means the designed placement of more than two colors or color mixtures simultaneously. Stripes may have many colors but are not polychrome because they are set in the warp and cannot be manipulated. Double weave is one of the few interlacements permitting true polychrome effects because of the fact that each surface and block gives the possibility for the conscious selection between two colors.”
Fiber art takes many forms, at the Weaver Guild of Fiber art takes many forms, at the Weaver Guild of Greater Cincinnati we embrace them all! Check out these fabulous string art cards made by Andrea Anderson! You can get them at our Second Saturdays at the Guild this Saturday, March 14 at 10 am. We have many works of fiber art for sale, fiber art demonstrations of spinning and weaving along with a Make It Take It craft if braiding a friendship bracelet!
Join us on March 14 for Second Saturdays at the Gu Join us on March 14 for Second Saturdays at the Guild. We will have a fiber arts marketplace, selling handmade items made by Guild members. There will be demonstrations of floor loom weaving and spinning cotton on a support spindle and a Make It Take It activity for a small fee. Put it on your calendar now to shop and check out the Weaver Guild of Greater Cincinnati. Saturday, March 14 from 10 AM to 2 PM at the Weavers Guild of Greater Cincinnati, 4870 Gray Rd. 45232
We have added additional days and times to view th We have added additional days and times to view this multimedia exhibit by Artist and Guild Member Debbie Cannatella. Saturday, Feb 28, 10am-3pm Sunday, Mar 1, 10am-3pm Thursday, Mar 5, 7pm-8pm —Debbie’s artist talk Saturday, Mar 7, 10am-3pm Sunday, Mar 8,10am-3pm
Throwback Thursday Swatch Watch September 1988 Si Throwback Thursday Swatch Watch September 1988 Six Shaft Basketweave Woven by Mary Bennet Warp and weft - Clasgen’s 2/18 worsted. Sett - 30 e.p.i. Mary suggests a softer twist yarn, or singles. This sample is from a Fall 1970 New England Weavers’ Seminar Newsletter edited by Eunice Smith. It is based on a draft in New Key to Weaving by Mary Black, page 301. She states:”The 6-harness version of the basket weave generally is accepted as the true basket weave. At first glance, the web resembles the 2 and 4 harness weaves, but upon closer examination, it is found to be quite different in structure. There are two seven-thread blocks. Three threads of each block form the pattern, while four act as binder or tabby threads. The pattern is more interesting than that of the 2 and 4 harness weaves, and proceeds more rapidly for the binder or tabby thread eliminates the necessity of always turning the weft threads around the edge threads to hold them in place.” Mary Bennett wove our swatch using a very light beat. She found weaving it “to square’’ on the loom was too boardlike and squashed the squares after washing. Washed in woolite, the length-of 6 yds. 3” dried to 5 yds, 30”. For 3/4” loss in a 24” width. Mimi Smith, Chairman.
Structures Study Group also had some show and tell Structures Study Group also had some show and tell of other work besides the Krokbragd in yesterday’s post. Chris H - Blanket throw - Huck lace, Shetland wool; Scarf - cotton and wool - grey, white, black Janet B - hand dyed warp. Using for overshot towels Diane Millard - Towels, cotton, colors were inspired by a recent trip to Africa. 📸Terri B
The Structures Study Group meets on the third Thur The Structures Study Group meets on the third Thursday of the month to study different weave structures. This guild year they are focusing on Krokbragd, a traditional Scandinavian weave, mostly attributed to Swedish and Norwegian weaving traditions. The structure of Krokbragd is a 3-shaft point twill that is packed tightly (beaten) to completely hide the warp threads. The Krokbragd pieces above are table runners and mug rugs woven by members Terri B and April F. 📸Terri B
Throwback Thursday to Swatch Watch, September, 198 Throwback Thursday to Swatch Watch, September, 1988 Weavers Guild of Greater Cincinnati Four Harness Turned Huck Woven by Roz Weston The inspiration swatch for this fabric came from Anne Martinez, a member of the Handweavers Guild of Connecticut. She had used many fine cotton yarns together for the warp and a heavier weft, to use as a folding screen. She wove it without the four tabby shots between the turned spots, giving vertical lines of texture. The soft texture of the Shetland tends to lose the pattern. A harder yarn would be more satisfactory. Roz thinks this would make a nice blouse material in fine threads set at 24 or 30 e.p.i., or baby blankets in fine wool. (Of course, silk would be elegant!) Mimi Smith, Chairman Warp-Clasgen’s wool tripled Weft-Shetland wool, doubled Sett 12 epi. Yarns donated by Mimi Smith
Rigid Heddle Study Group brought some finished wor Rigid Heddle Study Group brought some finished work to the Guild house today. Samples of color and weave towels, a rep weave mug and holiday coasters!
WIP Wednesday. Works in process by guild members o WIP Wednesday. Works in process by guild members on looms in the weaving studio at the guild house!
Our Floor Loom Weaving 201 class worked on learnin Our Floor Loom Weaving 201 class worked on learning how to work with cotton and twill patterns to make towels this past weekend. Thanks Amy for the great pics! 📸 Amy L
The guild house was in full swing today. Guests we The guild house was in full swing today. Guests were shopping at the Fiber Arts market, making string hearts, and watching demos of inkle weaving and tablet weaving. There were also 2 classes going on upstairs in the classrooms, Weaving 201 and Spinning 101. Our hearts and rooms were full! 💕
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