Handweavers Guild of the New River Valley

February Monthly Meeting (Zoom)
2024-02-11 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
Nicole Bunting will present a program on “Introduction to Tapestry Weaving”.

Tapestry is more than just imagery in weaving, but that can be a big part of it too! Today and throughout history, tapestry has been misunderstood and misrepresented. The true definition of tapestry is simple even if the techniques are wide and varied. We will be learning about the history of tapestry, the essentials of creating a tapestry – including cartoons, materials, equipment, and the one technique you NEED to know for a successful tapestry – as well as about my personal tapestry practice and studio.

Nicole received her BFA in Craft and Material Studies from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). She is a weaver, embroiderer, and paper artist that likes to combine all of these materials to create her work. She has been a weaving instructor in the Richmond area since 2015, assisted Susan Iverson at Penland during the summer of 2018, and taught as an adjunct at VCU in 2019. Nicole created the website Warped Fibers in 2020 to share her weaving knowledge and love with anyone willing to listen! Since then she has created 3 e-books, an online tapestry course, and an online shop that can all be found on her site – with plans for many more!

You can learn more about Nicole at her website: https://nicolebunting.com/

January Monthly Meeting
2024-01-14 14:00 - 16:00 | Meadowbrook Library, 267 Alleghany Spring Road, Shawsville, VA, 24162, United States
This meeting will be held in the community room of Meadowbrook Library. We will be watching a movie on weaving on their big screen TV and enjoying popcorn.
The Meadowbrook Library is next door to the Community Center where we normally meet. It is accessible from Rt 460.

December Monthly Meeting
2023-12-10 14:00 - 16:00 | Meadowbrook Community Center, 267 Alleghany Spring Rd, Shawsville, 24162, United States
Member Pat Tracy will present a program on “Tips and Tricks” for weaving scarves. Anyone who has seen Pat’s beautiful work will really want to see this program!

November Monthly Meeting
2023-11-12 14:00 - 16:00 | Meadowbrook Community Center, 267 Alleghany Spring Rd, Shawsville, 24162, United States
Member Heather Laing will present a program on “Little Looms”, with an emphasis on rigid heddle looms.
Rigid Heddle looms are often called “the gateway drug to weaving”, for good reason! Affordable, needing less space and specialized equipment, and providing a quicker setup than shaft looms – what is not to love?

October Monthly Meeting
2023-10-08 14:00 - 16:00 | Meadowbrook Community Center, 267 Alleghany Spring Rd, Shawsville, 24162, United States
This will be an in person meeting, at the Community Center in Shawsville. No Zoom, and no recording.
Program from member Alyce Quinn: “Fiber Animal to Fabric”

September Monthly Meeting
2023-09-10 14:00 - 16:00 | Meadowbrook Community Center, 267 Alleghany Spring Rd, Shawsville, 24162, United States
First meeting of the new guild year. This is a business meeting, and will be in person at our Shawsville location.

May Monthly Meeting
2023-05-21 14:00 - 16:00 | Meadowbrook Community Center, 267 Alleghany Spring Rd, Shawsville, 24162, United States
This meeting will include the guild’s annual “Yard Sale”. Bring fiber-related items you wish to sell.
This is an in-person meeting.

April Monthly Meeting
2023-04-16 14:00 - 16:00 | Meadowbrook Community Center, 267 Alleghany Spring Rd, Shawsville, 24162, United States
The program will be “Triangle Loom Weaving/ Continuous Strand Weaving”, presented by Jackie Martin.
This will be an in-person meeting.

Summer and Winter with Jill Staubitz
2023-03-18 08:00 - 17:00
First class March 18, 2023, second session March 20, 2023.

March Monthly Meeting
2023-03-12 14:00 - 16:00
“Interpreting Nineteenth-century Weaving Drafts” – Frances
Richardson
This was changed to a Zoom meeting, due to the weather.

February Monthly Meeting
2023-02-12 14:00 - 16:00
Our program this month will be all about our members. First we’d like you to share with the group any Tips or
Tricks that you have found help you in your weaving journey. Is there a gadget that you use to help you in warping your loom, or something you do that makes your weaving process mostly foolproof for you? Do you have a book or video that you always fall back on when you have questions or are having issues. Many of us have taken basic weaving classes but over time we develop our own techniques or find tools that really help in the process and sharing those with others may turn a lightbulb on for someone who has been struggling. There will be a warping mill available, so folks can check it out as a lot of folks haven’t seen one in action.
Also, we really haven’t had a good Show & Tell session so for those of you who have been weaving up a storm
these past couple months (years!), please bring in what you can to share with us. One of the huge benefits of
meeting in person is getting to not only see weaving up close but to touch it so we hope you will have a lot to share.

Jennifer Moore Workshop on Double Rainbow Doubleweave
2023-01-09 13:00 - 17:00
First session is January 9, followed by 3 more sessions: January 11, 13, and 16, 2023 on Zoom.
Details about the workshop are available at Jennifer’s website, Doubleweaver.com.

January Monthly Meeting
2023-01-08 14:00 - 16:00
This will be a Zoom Meeting
Our program this month is on Krokbragd and will be presented by Patricia Morton. Patricia lives and works in the Appomattox area and has been weaving for over 30 years. As a “workshop junkie”, she studies at numerous seminars and weaving conferences. She has taught weaving in eight states, and her work has been featured in Handwoven magazine. Patricia loves to spread her passion for weaving. She has introduced numerous adults and children to weaving, and teaches a variety of topics. She is co-owner of Treeditions, a weaving company and Leclerc Looms dealer. To find out more about Patricia and her craft, please visit
https://www.facebook.com/treeditionsappomattox

December Monthly Meeting
2022-12-11 14:00 - 16:00
This will be a Zoom meeting
Our guest speaker, George Dubois, will give a program on how to identify unknown fibers. He will also discuss color and dyeing.

November Monthly Meeting
2022-11-13 14:00 - 16:00
This meeting will be in person, at our normal location, the Shawsville Community Center.
The program will be a talk on Inkle Weaving by member Carol Masters.

Supplemental Warp Workshop with Deb Essen
2022-11-04 10:00 - 2022-11-05 17:00
Deb Essen is presenting her Supplemental Warp Workshop on November 4th and 5th from 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM via Z oom. The cost for this workshop will be $75 for members and $95 for nonmembers for the two days.
Here is a description of the workshop:
Intro to Supplemental Warps guild presentation; Deb Essen, author of “Easy Weaving with Supplemental Warps” takes weavers on an overview of what supplemental warps are, why use supplemental warps and how to weave supplemental warps without a second back beam! Deb lives, weaves and runs her business, Dje Handwovens in the Bitterroot Valley, nestled in the Rocky Mountains of western Montana. In 2004, Deb achieved the Certificate of Excellence in Handweaving-Level 1, through the Handweaver’s Guild of America and was recognized by the Montana Arts Council with induction to Montana Circle of American Masters in Folk and Traditional Art. Her book, Easy Weaving With Supplemental Warps, as well as several videos on weaving and the business side of art are available on Interweave Press. She has written multiple feature articles for Handwoven and Little Looms magazines.
Deb is passionate about teaching about the wonders of weaving and teaches at shop, guilds, regional and national conferences and festivals.

“Handweaving 20,000 Years and Going Strong Moving into the 21st Century”
2022-11-04 - 2022-11-30 | Left of Center Art Space, 24 Campbell Avenue Southwest, Roanoke, VA, 24011, United States
Weaving Exhibit by the Handweavers Guild of the New River Valley
This exhibit will be open with a reception November 4, 2022, from 5 – 8:30 pm, at the Left of Center Art Space in downtown Roanoke, 24 Campbell Avenue Southwest. The exhibit will run from 11/4/22 – 11/30/22, during the hours that the Center is open, which are Thursday – Saturday, 11 am – 4 pm. In addition, throughout the month there will be many additional handwoven items for sale.
You can find out more about Left of Center Art Space at their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/leftofcenterartspace/

October Monthly Meeting
2022-10-09 14:00 - 16:00
Intro to Supplemental Warps guild presentation: Deb Essen, author of Easy Weaving with Supplemental Warps, takes weavers on an overview of what supplemental warps are, why use supplemental warps and how to weave supplemental warps without a second back beam!
This meeting will be via Zoom.

September Monthly Meeting
2022-09-11 14:00 - 16:00
This will be the first meeting of the 2022-2023 guild year, with new officers and will be a business meeting. This meeting will be via Zoom.

Reading Drafts (members only)
2022-08-02 10:00 - 12:00
This is the third and last in the summer series. It will be given via Zoom, by member Harriet Roadman. All of the classes in the series are free, geared to beginner weavers, and are only open to members.

Warping and Dressing a Loom (members only)
2022-06-25 09:00 - 15:00 | Meadowbrook Community Center, 267 Alleghany Spring Rd, Shawsville, 24162, United States
Second class in our summer series, member Judy Wills will present this one, and will cover back-to-front and front-to-back methods. Students will bring their own looms. Class size will be small.

Project Planning Class (members only)
2022-06-18 12:00 - 16:00 | Meadowbrook Community Center, 267 Alleghany Spring Rd, Shawsville, 24162, United States
This four hour class will be presented by member, Mauna Hair, and is free to members. It is one of three of our “Summer Classes for Guild Members” programs.

May Guild Meeting
2022-05-15 14:00 - 16:00 | Meadowbrook Community Center, 267 Alleghany Spring Rd, Shawsville, 24162, United States
Guild yard sale.
This has become a yearly tradition and is a great opportunity for you to sell that equipment or fiber that you are no longer using or purchase something you’ve been looking for. Sometimes there are even freebies. So, if you’re cleaning up your weaving workspace, put aside those items you’re ready to part with and bring them to the sale in May.
This is one week later than our normal 2nd Sunday, due to the conflict with Mother’s Day.

April Guild Meeting
2022-04-10 14:00 - 16:00 | Meadowbrook Community Center, 267 Alleghany Spring Rd, Shawsville, 24162, United States
This meeting will be live and take place in our usual meeting location, the Shawsville Community Center (directions are available on our “About Us” page here.
We have a lot to talk about with you at our April meeting and so there will be no formal program. But we want and need you there so you can hear about all the things the Board has been discussing – we need your input.
The Guild Sales group and the Education Committee will talk to us about the results of their recent survey.

March Guild Meeting
2022-03-13 14:00 - 16:00
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.

“One Warp, Many Structures” upcoming workshop with Denise Kovnat.
2022-03-12 09:30 - 18:00
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 weeks beforehand.) Working with a variety of tie-ups and treadlings, you will weave a series of designs in Echo, Jin (Turned Taqueté), Shadow Weave, Rep and Double Weave. The takeaway is a sampler of colorful patterns and a broader, deeper understanding of the potential for extended parallel threadings and how to design them. For 4-shaft to 32-shaft looms.”
We have planned this workshop for two Saturdays and a Sunday in March – the 12th, 19th, and 27th, with session as follows:
Saturday, March 12 – sessions at 9:30, 1:00 and 4:00 (about 90-120 min. each)
Saturday, March 19 – same as March 12
Sunday, March 27 – sessions at 1:00 and 4:00

February Guild Meeting
2022-02-13 14:00 - 16:00
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.

January Guild Meeting
2022-01-09 14:00 - 16:00
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/

December Guild Meeting
2021-12-12 14:00 - 16:00
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.

Blacksburg YMCA Craft Fair
2021-11-12 - 2021-11-14
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.
