April Monthly Guild Meeting
Monday, April 21, 2025
7:00 PM EDT
Rabbit Goody the owner of Thistle Hill Weavers in Cherry Valley, NY will present for us a program on 17th Century and Forward Historic Textile Production.
April Monthly Guild Meeting
Monday, April 21, 2025
7:00 PM EDT
Rabbit Goody the owner of Thistle Hill Weavers in Cherry Valley, NY will present for us a program on 17th Century and Forward Historic Textile Production.
Monday, March 17, 2025
Thom Koster will present a program on Temari Balls
7:00 PM EST
Temari, or "hand ball" in Japanese, is a Japanese folk art and handicraft made by embroidery on a thread ball. Originally made for children hand ball games they have been elevated over the centuries to become works of art. Since this embroidery is on a sphere there are interesting things that can be done with very limited embroidery knowledge.
In this talk Thom will cover what brought him to this craft, the history behind it and some of the traditional elements you will see in some different designs of temari.
Monthly Guild Meeting
November 18, 2024
7:00 PM EST
Fancy Weaving: A figured coverlet, a Jacquard Machine, and the process of recovering knowledge with Justin Squizzero
This presentation kicks off with a brief overview of how Justin came to handweaving and then details the history of his Jacquard equipment, how the loom works, and the entire process of recreating a coverlet woven in 1830.
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Join us at 7:00 PM on Monday, September 16, 2024, by Zoom, as Jennifer Moore presents:
Double Rainbow: An Evolution in Color
My work in doubleweave has always focused on the interaction of color between the two layers of cloth. I will show a number of images of my work in doubleweave pickup that play one solid colored layer against a layer in a gradation of a spectrum of colors. In 2016 I began developing a system of color rotations in both the warp and the weft that combine with all of the possibilities for bringing different colors to the surface of the cloth and weaving in multiple blocks. I will show how this idea developed for me and the process that I go through in designing my textiles in my Double Rainbow technique.
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The Eastside Handweavers have several study groups, if you are interested in joining the guild send an email to ehgmembership@gmail.com
Swedish in-lay weaving - Thursday, October 3, 2024 at 7:00 pm EDT. This is a new study group this year. All members are welcome.
Spinning - Monday, September 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM EDT. All members are welcome
Advanced Weavers - Tuesday, September 10, 2024 at 6:30 PM EDT. All members are welcome. This year the group will be studying Block weaves and Profile Drafts.
Beginning Weavers - Monday, September 23, 2024 at 7:00 PM EDT - All beginning weavers are welcome.