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 […]

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.

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 […]

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".

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 […]

This will be a Zoom meeting.  November's program will be A Virtual Tour of a Guild Member's Studio.

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.

December's program will be A Virtual Tour of  "Left of Center Art Space" - a studio Art Space shared by local collaborative artisans who work, create and sell their wares.

January's program will be a Zoom lecture by Denise Kovnat:  "Echo and Jin: Variations on a Theme" More information about Denise can be found on her website: https://www.denisekovnat.com/

The program in February will be presented by Sara Bixler, the owner of and an instructor at Red Stone Glen Fiber Arts Center.  She will discuss weaving with knitting yarns. Sara is the daughter of renowned weaving instructor, Tom Knisely. This will be a Zoom meeting.

Denise’s description of the class is this: “As Marian Stubenitsky has shown in Weaving with Echo and Iris, extended parallel threadings offer endless possibilities. In this workshop, designed for advanced beginners and beyond, you will begin the workshop with your loom dressed in a two-color warp threaded on opposites. (Drafts will be provided about 6 […]

March's program will be a Zoom lecture presented by Marilyn Romatka,  “Card Trick: The Magic of Tablet Weaving”. To read more about Marilyn see her website at www.taprootfolkarts.com.