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Monthly Guild Programs 2024 - 2025
Monthly Guild Programs 2023 - 2024
Woolens and Waulkings: Tartans and Tweeds
Beth Ross Johnson
September 23, 2024 (In-person and Zoom meeting)
For centuries, plaid twills have been a cultural marker for Celtic people, the earliest examples of wool tweed dating from the second millennium BCE. This presentation will talk about those early examples, the migration to the later Celtic lands in the British Isles and the state of the tweed and tartan in Scotland after the industrial Revolution and more recently. Oh, and sheep. And how did all that tartan stuff start? And what is a waulking?
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Tapestry: Learn, Practice and Share
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Terry Olson
October 28, 2024 (In-person and Zoom meeting)
Using the theme of Learn, Practice and Share, Terry Olson will describe her 30-year tapestry practice. She talks about who helped her learn, how she practices and experiments, and then shares what she learns by teaching others. Terry’s slideshow will showcase her tapestries, as well as her history with the Damascus Fiber Arts School and the American Tapestry Alliance. She will have tapestries with her for viewers to examine up close.
My Fiber Journey
Natalie Drummond
November 11, 2024 (In-person and Zoom meeting)
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Natalie has focused on teaching weaving with hand dyed yarns and has been studying deflected doubleweave since 2017! Her love of color, fiber, and finishing processes has led her on a continuous path of learning and discovery including ice dyeing to build color palettes. Color hue, value, and the importance of being able to bring harmony in your weaving will be presented through her handwoven samples.
Elements of Design
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Stacey Harvey Brown
January 27, 2025 (In-person and Zoom meeting)
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Inspiration is everywhere – from nature, from books, from tv, from a sudden insight. The challenge is how to translate your inspiration into woven form. Elements of Design looks at how to isolate particular parts of a visual inspiration and take that into your woven work. We examine a number of varied sources, find out which elements really engage you and look at how to represent that through specific woven techniques, structures and materials. So that you get a dynamic sense of how relevant the theory is for your own weaving, the presentation also includes a walk-through of some real-life examples that I have faced in my weaving life and how I solved the design problems that my inspiration threw up. This overview of the design process directly related to a woven interpretation provides a firm understanding of the basics underlining translating ideas from source to end result.
A Tutorial on Turning Weaving Drafts
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EWG Weave Structures Study Group
February 24, 2025
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What does it mean to turn a weaving draft? And why would you want to do it? We will attempt to answer these questions and provide examples from a variety of turned projects.
Weaving By Design
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Kelly Marshall
March 24, 2025
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Kelly Marshall is recognized for combining Rep weave’s rich texture and linear structure into extraordinary textiles inspired by the aesthetics of the Arts & Crafts movement, contemporary design, and traditional Scandinavian weaving. Kelly will show you the inspiration behind her designs and how she translates that inspiration into woven textiles. She will share her beginnings in fiber art and how that developed into her weaving business and the publishing of her book “Custom Woven Interiors: Bringing Color and Design Home with Rep Weave”
Loom Maintenance and Repair
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Rob Merz
April 28, 2025
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More details to come.
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A Celebration of the Flowing Colors Project
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Members of the EWG
May 19, 2025
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This program will review the dye techniques from our summer 2024 dye days, and look at the textiles woven from our yarns. We will take a look at the weaving drafts used in some of the projects on display. Four awards will be announced - Best Ice-Dyed Project, Best Painted Warp Project, Best Natural Dye Project, and Best In Show.
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Monthly Guild Programs 2023 - 2024
Our first meeting of the 2023-2024 guild year will be our biennial fundraiser. Please plan on attending in-person for our
Mini-Fiberama!
Monday, September 25th 10-12:30*
at the Eugene Textile Center
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On sale will be donated yarns, books, textiles, equipment, clothing, and services. And there will be doorprizes and treats. We have already received 6 bins of Guatemalan textiles and 4 boxes of yarn, and can’t wait to see what comes in during the week before the sale.
Guild members may bring in donations of yarn (things from your stash you don’t want any more), books (anything fiber-related), and small weaving or spinning equipment. In addition, as a new twist this year, we are asking for donations of ethnic-inspired clothing or accessories. (maybe something you bought on vacation or at a street-faire that doesn’t fit any more, or no longer sparks that joy?) We will also accept donations of services like hemming, baking, or lessons.
*our business meeting will be held from 10 to 11 and the sale begins at 11
*door-prizes will be awarded randomly starting at 10
*you are welcome to bring friends who are non-guild members
*we are not a 501(C)3 non-profit and donations are not tax-deductable
*If items do not sell, we will donate what’s left to ETC, MECCA, or SVDP. If you would prefer to have your unsold items returned to you, we can accommodate this if each item is clearly marked with this information.
Getting Ready for our Fiber Arts Celebration and Sale
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October 23, 2023 (In-person and Zoom meeting)
The Sales Committee will entertain and inform us while emphasizing three main thoughts: The Celebration and Sale is so much more than just a sale, there are a multitude of ways for you to become involved, and a clear path ahead for next steps.
Weaving TnT: Dynamite Tips 'n Techniques for Every Weaver
Robyn Spady
November 13, 2023 (In-person and Zoom meeting)
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Would you like to learn a great method for repairing a broken warp end, tracking your treadling while you weave, making your own repair heddles, or just make weaving easier and more pleasurable? This gizmo and gadget centric presentation looks and feels like an interactive show-and-tell and will introduce over 36 offbeat tools, techniques, or tricks to assist weavers in all phases of weaving.
An Exploration of Double Huck
Cally Booker
January 22, 2024 (In-person and Zoom meeting)
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One of the happy surprises of this structure is just how appealing a double huck fabric is. From elegant scarves with beautiful drape, to towels and blankets with an irresistible ‘bounce’, it is lovely to wear and to handle. In this presentation, Cally will introduce double huck and take you on a tour through her experimentation with this flexible and attractive structure.
Weaving Basics Study Group Presents: Gamps Galore!
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February 26, 2024
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The Weaving Basics group will showcase gamps woven as group projects and individual explorations. Napkins woven for their napkin exchange using the Missouri Check block draft will demonstrate the many ways to take one draft, along with fiber and color guidelines, and end up with a multitude of beautiful and varied woven pieces.
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Talk the Talk: Words for Weavers
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Ruth MacGregor
March 25, 2024
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Why worry about words and what things are called? What do those terms we hear all the time actually mean? Communication is important, especially when we want to share things with other people. This presentation dives into the ways we talk about weaving – structures, traditions, regions, habits and styles. The way we use weaving words is not just vocabulary. It's the thread of understanding that joins us in this pursuit we all love. This program will open new ways of thinking about weaving words, and it comes with resource lists and a special recipe. Join us!
An Uphill Tromp
Dee Brown Scholarship Research Presentation
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Krista Richey
April 22, 2024
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Krista’s presentation will chronicle a headbanging adventure into the jungle of 2 treadles and 24 shafts. The trials and tribulations of sectional warping, threading 1000 ends, compu-dobbies, and the pursuit of beautiful cloth will be shared.
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The Flowing Line
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Bonnie Inouye
May 20, 2024
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Many traditional weaving patterns use a repeated motif, stripes, or geometric designs, but sometimes we want to create a sense of movement in a loom-controlled design. Which structures can be used to weave smoothly flowing lines? Design ideas, problems and solutions, and placement of curves on the project will be discussed.
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​Monthly Guild Programs 2022 - 2023
Scandinavian Weaves Study Group
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September 24, 2022 (In-Person and Zoom Meeting)
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The Scandinavian Weaves Study Group (SCAN) is presenting the Guild’s September program on, naturally, Scandinavian Weaves. The program focuses on weaves that are well known in Scandinavia, but not always in the U.S. These include monk’s belt, halvdrall, Finnweave, Swedish art weaves, rye (aka rya), etc.
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12th Century Scandinavian Cape
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October 24, 2022 (In-Person and Zoom Meeting)
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Kirsi Manni described the intricate process of reconstructing a 12th century cape found in a churchyard in her town of Leksand, Sweden. The presentation demonstrated the entire process including analysis of fibers and creating swatches to reconstructing new patterns for decorative ribbon. In one hour, we saw how over a period of two years she went from viewing decomposed bits of centuries old fabric in a museum to developing an ermine-lined cape fit for royalty.
Designing Woven Fabrics - Janet Phillips
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November 21, 2022 (In-Person and Zoom Meeting)
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Janet Phillips will talk about her approach to designing fabrics, including where she finds ideas and inspiration, choosing color combinations, and how to use the yarn you have to create your own original fabric. Janet's passions are color and texture, and after 40+ years of weaving, is still excited by combining color and weave structure in new ways.
Textile Techniques of India: A Few Favorites
Barbara Setsu Pickett
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January 23, 2023 (In-Person and Zoom Meeting)
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Feast on the textile techniques of India. Barbara will present her research gathered on two trips to Northern India in 2016 and 2020. See how Rahul Jain’s reimagined Mughal velvet drawloom operates and the intricacies of the design process. Marvel at the expertise of highly skilled artisans in their on-site workshops maintaining traditions and innovating new styles and methods. Appreciate the tools, materials and processes involved in Benaras silk brocade weaving, double ikat patolas of Patan, Ajrakh blockprinting on both sides of the fabric with natural dyes of Bhuj, bandani micro tie-dye of the Sidr Craft Khatri brothers, the kalamkari handpainting with natural dye pigments, and elaborate Zardozi embroidery using precious stones. Besides the images, peruse her Indian textile collection and bring your items and stories to share.
Zapotec Weaving
Francisco Bautista
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February 27, 2023 (In-Person and Zoom Meeting)
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Ikat: Notes from the Field
Mary Zicafoose
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March 27, 2023 (In-Person and Zoom Meeting)
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This guild presentation is a compelling and lavish textile travelogue stopping at the major ikat producing centers around the world. The talk highlights the unique and culturally distinct ikat cloth produced over the ages as well as introducing the signature style of several notable contemporary American ikat artists.
Mary will share many images of her studio and process and speak about her lifetime work in ikat.
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Life Lessons that Weaving has Taught Me
Annie Fischer
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April 24, 2023 (In-Person and Zoom Meeting)
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You know those funny noises your loom starts to make when you're trying to finish a project at the last minute? Or how the loom seems to break when you're tired? There is something to be learned from that. We can translate these lessons from the loom to our lives in general. Annie Fischer has made her living as a weaver for over 40 years. Her looms have taught her great lessons over the years, but only when she listens to them.
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