Welcome to the Hand Weavers and Spinners Guild of NSW Inc
The next guild meeting will be held from 1:30pm in the church hall behind St Paul's, 205 Burwood Road, Burwood, Sydney on Saturday, August 28, 2010.
Printz Charming are coming and will do a demonstration of what they do! Prints Charming is the combined talents of Cath Derksema and Kirsten Junor who met when working at John Kaldor Fabricmaker in the late 1980's, Cath as a textile designer and Kirsten in production. Cath left Kaldors to start her own design studios ArtPark and Masterpeace, producing original artworks for the rag trade. Kirsten went on to study costume making at NIDA, then worked for film and television in Sydney and London. After a chance meeting through a mutual friend their paths crossed again, Prints Charming is the result.
August Mini Workshop
Jeanette Colditz will lead the mini-workshop. Her pattern for a the base of a hot mat, crocheted mesh is on page 5 of the August Guild News. She will bring the pattern for the rest of the design and we will work on this base.
Mini workshops start at 11:00am in the small hall below the Guild rooms. There is a participation fee of $2 and sometimes a materials fee. If you have any ideas for minis contact Kris Supierz, at the Guild.
If you've always wanted to try spinning or weaving, but have been putting it off, the Guild has regular classes.
For those wanting to learn a new technique or try a new twist on something more familiar, the Guild offers workshops covering many areas of interest.
Recent Guild Articles
- Instruction book on ring spinning by Francis L Lincoln
- June Guest Speaker: Joan Fisher and Pam Bayfield
- Call for Guild Journal Submissions
- Sydney Design 2010
- Tapestry Student Award
- Japan Quilting Expo
- Grampian's Texture
- 24th Wool and Natural Fibre Muster Rugged Up
- Fibre Identification and Burn Tests
- Somewhere in My World
