April Guild Meeting

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.

March Guild Meeting

 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 Originally made for children hand ball games they have been elevated over the centuries to become works of art.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.