Stratford-upon-Avon Guild of Weavers Spinners and Dyers

For those participating in the workshop on Saturday - DON'T FORGET .... Preparation & what you need to bring Participants will have these items available within the group, but you may wish to bring your own if you have something suitable (to help reduce queueing): 1. Smooth string/yarn for making the continuous heddles 2. Marker pens - for those who go on to do heddle making in the afternoon. 3. Stiff card to cut into a piece 22cm x 9.5cm- again for heddle making. 4. Masking tape. 5. Scissors Participants will also need (for individual use): 1. Your loom, reeds and shuttles. The loom should be warped up in advance with a relatively narrow (c7") warp.* Dawn suggests that its important it is to keep something familiar when le arning new techniques so you may want to use a familiar warp yarn - one that is stable and easy to work with. Bring appropriate heddle reeds that give you a balanced (or near enough) sett. 2. A supply of your warp yarn, in addition to a select...

The March meeting will be on Saturday 16th in the Foyer and Lounge.  Dawn Willey will be teaching a workshop on Rigid Heddle : Beyond the Basics in the Lounge all day and the Foyer will be free for those of you who are not involved. Dawn Willey and her husband Alan own The Handweavers Studio and Dawn teaches on and runs the Handweavers Diploma and has been editor of The Journal. She has many many looms but still enjoys her rigid heddle loom and is well known for the creative things she makes with it. In 2015 Dawn Willey taught a very successful course on Rigid Heddle Weaving at the AGWSD summer school. At the time she wrote with great affection about the potential of these simple looms, notting that: The addition of a few smooth wooden sticks and string are all that is needed to hugely expand your rigid heddle loom’s weave possibilities. In this event she will show us how. Participants in this workshop will get to explore the hidden potential in these looms.  On ...