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Community Flax Event!

Aug 9, 2022Web Master2 CommentsUncategorizedfibershed, flax, linen, partnership, sewvalley

We are looking forward to hosting the upcoming Community Flax Demo in the Guild Garden this September, supporting the work of the Rust Belt Fibershed’s Rust Belt Linen Project. The Rust Belt Fibershed consists of a 250 mile radius outside of Cleveland, Ohio, including part of Michigan, Western Pennsylvania, Western New York, and Southern Ohio,…

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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 • 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.
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.
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.
We’ll see you Saturday April 12, 10-2 for Second We’ll see you Saturday April 12, 10-2 for Second Saturdays at the Guild!
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!
As we expand our mission beyond fiber arts to incl As we expand our mission beyond fiber arts to include culinary arts, we’re excited to introduce our new class, “Weave with Food.” In this innovative course, we’ll blend traditional weaving techniques with a culinary twist. For our inaugural session, please bring a bag of cooked spaghetti noodles to join in on this unique, hands-on experience. #weaversofinstagram #fiberarts #culinaryarts #aprilfools
Think green for Spring or St. Patrick’s Day! We Think green for Spring or St. Patrick’s Day! We have some fabulous items in our Second Saturdays @ the Guild Fiber Arts Market this weekend. Don’t miss your chance to buy some hand crafted treasures!
Join us Saturday, March 8 at the Weavers Guild of Join us Saturday, March 8 at the Weavers Guild of Greater Cincinnati 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 Felted Dryer Balls with Gail, $5 materials fee. Due to the use of sharp felting tools, ages 16 and up only. Check out a demo of stranded knitting with expert knitter Robin. #cincinnati #shoplocal #shopsmall #fiberart
Repost from @abbydid • Look at the magical place Repost from @abbydid • Look at the magical places these hands have stitched! This was a class of 12, and naturally I only got a picture with the last 4, because I only ever remember at the very end 😂. These classes bring me so much joy. Actually, it’s the students that bring all the joy. It’s such a privilege to get to work with so many lovely human beings. 🗺️👯‍♂️🗺️👯‍♂️🗺️👯‍♂️🗺️👯‍♂️🗺️👯‍♂️🗺️👯‍♂️🗺️ #abbydid #textileart #embroidery #embroideryclass #learntoembroider #needlework #slowstitch #comesewwithme #thereismagicinthesewingcircle
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