March Guild Meeting – Creating Bags from Handwoven Fabric
Guild member, Terry Clements, will talk about creating bags from your handwoven fabrics (those of us who have seen Terry's creations will vouch for what a great program this will be!)
April Guild Meeting – Textile Tour of Guatemala
The program for this monthly meeting is a virtual tour of this fascinating country from a weaver's perspective. Linda Hartshorn's presentation will allow us to view vivid images on power point, examine many wonderful textiles and hear fascinating stories from the auspicious time of December 2012, the end of the calendar and beginning of a […]
2 Day Weaving Workshop with Diane Totten (Zoom)
HWGNRV Presents "Crimp Cloth", a two-day workshop with Dianne Totten via zoom, on Friday and Saturday April 23 & 24th 2021. Signups will open to guild members on January 10, and if not filled (16 attendees) by the end of February, it will be opened to non-members. Cost for members will be $85, non-members $105. […]
May Guild Meeting – Color Challenge Presentation
For the program this month, member Mary Anne will present the results of the guild color challenge. Participating members (30 of us!) were each assigned a color harmony from the Deb Menz "Colorworks" book, and wove samples for each other on the assigned draft (Ginny's Coat) from the Davidson green book of 4H weaves.
June Guild Meeting -“The Hows and Whys Behinds Turning a Weaving Draft”, with Jill Staubitz.
The business meetings starts at 2 pm, followed by the program at 2:30 pm Our program for the month will be: "The Hows and Whys Behinds Turning a Weaving Draft", with Jill Staubitz. For more info about Jill, this is a link to her website: https://www.modernweaver.com/
Workshop – Inspiration and Ideas for Ikat Design (CLASS FULL)
Dates: Tuesdays – July 6 and 27, August 3 and 10. Starting at 7 p.m. First two sessions might be two hours, others will be about one hour. Cost $80 Member $100 Non-Member Location: Virtual Workshop using Zoom Maximum Number of Participants: 20 Workshop Level: Intermediate – participants must be able to warp a loom […]
August Guild Meeting – Twill Explorations with Martha Town
The monthly meeting will begin at 2 pm, followed by a presentation by Martha Town on "Twill Explorations" Martha Town will also be giving a zoom workshop, "Exploring Twills" for the guild on the 9th, 16th and 23rd of October.
September Guild Meeting – a virtual tour of Handweaving.net with Kris Bruland
Our program this month will be a presentation by Kris Burland, touring the many features of his creation, handweaving.net. This is an amazing resource with thousands of weaving drafts, and lots of tools to help you search through them and to modify them for your own projects. Some of us have heard Kris talk about […]
October Guild Monthly Meeting – via Zoom
This meeting will be a Zoom meeting. This month’s program will be an introduction into An Exploration of Marguerite P. Davison’s "A Handweaver’s Pattern Book".
Workshop – Exploring Twills with Martha Town
Dates: Tuesdays: Oct 12, Oct 19, Oct 26, 2021. 7 to 9 p.m. EDT Cost $80 Member $100 Non-Member (will open to non-members on 9/15 if not full) Location: Virtual Workshop using Zoom Maximum Number of Participants: 15 Workshop Level: Advanced beginner: participants must know how to warp a loom and set up for a […]
November Guild Meeting
This will be a Zoom meeting. November's program will be A Virtual Tour of a Guild Member's Studio.
Blacksburg YMCA Craft Fair
The show will be live this year, at the Christiansburg Rec Center. HWGNRV participates in this event with a booth selling items handwoven by members. You can visit the website for the event here.