Photo by Marilyn MooreThe Seattle Weavers' Guild meets on the fourth Thursday of the month, with exceptions for holidays and the summer break.
Covid 19 Update
The Seattle Weavers' Guild is not meeting in person at this time. We will be holding our monthly meetings online via zoom. Members will be provided the information to join the guild meetings via email and the monthly bulletin.Guests are welcome, please contact programs@seattleweaversguild.com for more information.
The meeting starts at 10am, followed by "Hot Off the Loom" (members exhibit their latest work), and the morning program. After a lunch break at noon, the afternoon program follows, sometimes a hands-on project.
- 9am - 2pm - Library open (SWG members may check out materials)
- 10am to 12 noon - Business Meeting, "Hot Off the Loom", Morning Program
- 12 noon - Lunch
- 1pm to 2pm - Afternoon program
For more information about Seattle Weavers' Guild Programs, contact programs@seattleweaversguild.com
September 23, 2021
Kris Bruland
Morning Program: Handweaving.net: A Treasury of Weaving Drafts and More
This program will feature an in-depth view of the Handweaving.net site from its beginning in 2004 until now. Kris Bruland, creator of handweaving.net, will discuss the history of the site, major content and feature areas including drafts and digital archive documents. The presentation will include an overview of draft collections, special features such as the common threading search and color editor, profile and block drafting, some unique and beautiful drafts, future plans, questions and answers, and more!
A live demonstration showing how drafts for the site are produced through specialized software directly from the digitized pages of old works will be included too. This technique has enabled over 70,000 accurate digital drafts to be produced for Handweaving.net from various works on weaving, many of which were previously unknown yet are now being discovered woven throughout the world!
Please join us if you are curious to know more about Handweaving.net, including what the site offers, how it is unique, why and how it was created, and current and future plans!
Kris Bruland
Kris Bruland is a software architect living on Whidbey Island in Washington State. He became interested in weaving nearly 20 years ago after giving his wife a Baby Wolf loom, becoming interested in how it worked, learning about drafts and patterns, and then learning to weave. That led to purchasing a computerized AVL dobby loom and writing software to control it, which later became the foundation for the Handweaving.net website.
Weaving and computer science, just two of Kris' many interests, proved to be a very interesting and fruitful combination. The creative application of custom software enabled a prolific collection of digital resources to be produced and offered to the world as Handweaving.net.
Kris is still working to expand and improve Handweaving.net today, and has many other interests as well, including software and math, orchids, gardening, traveling with his family, woodworking, playing classical piano and harpsichord music, restoring antique apple presses and making cider, and of course weaving!
Past Programs
| September | Syne Mitchell | Morning | Inventive Weaving: big ideas, little loom + science! Part I | ||
| Afternoon | Inventive Weaving: big ideas, little loom + science! Part II | ||||
| October | Linda Kubik | Morning | Sewing Handwoven Fabric | ||
| December | Marilyn Romatka | Morning | Uzbek Ikat: The Personal Saga of an Exceptional Cloth | ||
| Afternoon | The Handicrafts of Gujarat | ||||
| January | Marg Coe | Morning | Double Weave | ||
| Afternoon | Deflected Double Weave | ||||
| February | Jennifer Moore | Morning | Mathematical Design: Geometry in Textiles | ||
| Afternoon | Chromatic Fantasy: Music, Mathematics and Magic in Doubleweave | ||||
| March | Sally Eyring | Morning | Loom Interventions - Making That Loom Work For You | ||
| Afternoon | Loom Interventions--Part II | ||||
| April | Susan Balascio | Morning | Oh, So Fine!-The Exciting World of Fine Threads | ||
| May | Denise Kovnat | Morning | Dorset Buttons: A Heritage Craft | ||
| Afternoon | Echo and Jin: The Possibilities of Extended Parallel Threading | ||||
| September | Judith Mackenzie | Morning | Repairing the King's Carpet |
| Afternoon | Fibers and Cloth from First Nation Weavers and Spinners | ||
| October | Joan Ruane | Morning | Cotton from the Field to your Loom |
| November | Susan Weltman | Morning | Weave a Real Peace |
| Afternoon | Finger-Loop Braiding with Marilyn Romatka | ||
| January | Linda Hartshorn | Morning | Color Fundamentals for Fiber Artists |
| Afternoon | Textile Tour of Guatemala | ||
| February | Laura Viada | Morning | Southeast Asia - Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Singapore |
| Afternoon | Sweden | ||
| March | Program cancelled because of Covid 19 | ||
| April | Program cancelled because of Covid 19 | ||
| May | Program cancelled because of Covid 19 | ||
| September | Maren Beck and Josh Hirschstein | Morning | Traditional Silk Weaving in Hill Tribe Laos |
| Afternoon | Above the Fray Trunk Show | ||
| October | Sandra Swarbrick | Morning | Weaving Traditions in the Peruvian Highlands | November | Marilyn and Rainer Romatka | Morning | Interlacements: Threads and Lives |
| Afternoon | Interlacements: Threads and Lives--continued | ||
| January | Janet Dawson | Morning | Weaving Traditions of Turkey |
| Afternoon | Overshot on Four or More | February | Sarah Saulson | Morning | Window into Weaving: My Life as a Weaver | Afternoon | Handmade Cloth: Exploring Ritual |
| March | Joanne Hall | Morning | Swedish Weaving: The Weavers and Their Weaves |
| Afternoon | The Vavstuga and the Swedish Loom | ||
| April | Wendy Garrity | Morning | Kushutara: Weaving My Way Across Bhutan | Afternoon | Kushutara: Single-faced Brocaded Techniques |
| May | Karen Donde | Morning | Spice Up Your Recipe Weaving: Project Design Tips |
| Afternoon | Go BIG with Color-and-Weave Effects | ||
September |
Rosalie Neilson | Morning | The Power of Blocks |
| Afternoon | Kumihimo - From Defense to Decoration | ||
| October | Teresa Ruch | Morning | Inspiration From Commercial Textiles |
| November | Children's Hospital Volunteers | Morning | Vintage Fashion Show: The History of American Fashion as Represented by the Nation's First Ladies | Afternoon | Vintage Hat Show |
| January | Pat Spark | Morning | Pat Spark - Growth of a Feltmaker |
| Afternoon | Felt-Understand and Manipulate the Basics for Creative Design | ||
| February | Jannie Taylor | Morning | Echoes and Iridescence: Designing Rainbows |
| Afternoon | Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Tied Weaves, But Were Afraid to Ask | ||
| March | Sarah Fortin | Morning | The Design Process - From Inspiration to Finished Project |
| Afternoon | Shadow Weave in Polychrome | April | Kris Abshire | Morning | Esoteric Cloth | Afternoon | Plaid Llama Sale |
| May | Ruby Leslie | Morning | Lost in Translation...or Why Color Theories Don't Guarantee Good Cloth--Part 1 |
| Afternoon | Lost in Translation...or Why Color Theories Don't Guarantee Good Cloth--Part 2 | ||
| Summer | Amy Green | Felted Animals |
2016 - 2017
September |
Jane Stafford | Morning | Jane's Big Adventure to India |
| Afternoon | Jane's Big Adventure to Africa | ||
| October | Marilyn Moore | Morning | Wire as Fiber: Where Inspiration Meets Technique, Color, Form and Texture |
| December | Robyn Spady | Morning | Couture Passementerie Through the Eyes of a Fiber Artist |
| Afternoon | How to Create Couture Braids | ||
| January | Kelly Marshall | Morning | Weaving by Design |
| Afternoon | Designing in Rep | ||
| February | Kathrin Weber | Morning | Seeing Color in Everything |
| Afternoon | From Thread to Fabric | ||
| March | Anastasia Azure | Morning | Dimensional Double-Cloth |
| Afternoon | Weaving with Fishing Line | ||
| April | Barbara Herbster | Morning | Understanding Supplementary Warp: Creating and Developing Designs for Handwoven Cloth |
| Afternoon | LENO Yesterday's Design, Today's Application | ||
| May | Elizabeth Buckley | Morning | From Idea to Woven Form |
| Afternoon | The Element of Light in Tapestry | ||
| Summer | Kathleen Carpenter | Locker Hooking |
2015 - 2016
September |
Sarah H. Jackson | Morning | One Thread at a Time; A Weaver's Journey |
| Afternoon | Sample is Not a Four-Letter Word! | ||
| October | Anita Osterhaug | Morning | Weaving in the Digital Age |
| December | Melanie Burgess | Morning | The Art of Costume Design and Fabric Modification |
| Marcy Johnson | Afternoon | Wheat Ornaments | |
| January | Giovanna Imperia | Morning | Weaving with Unusual Materials |
| Afternoon | Braiding with Wire | ||
| February | Jette Vandermeiden | Morning | The Noble Napkin |
| Afternoon | Blocks and Profiles | ||
| March | JoAnn Bachelder | Morning | Towels: Transcending Tradition |
| Afternoon | Transcending Tradition continued | ||
| April | Sandra Swarbrick | Morning | John Landes Sample Project |
| Afternoon | Plaid Llama Sale | ||
| May | Inge Dam | Morning | Fashion Show |
| Afternoon | Threading and Turning Defined Patterns | ||
| Summer | Kathleen M Hewitt with Barbara B. Suess | Temari - Long Live the Chrysanthemum! |
2014 - 2015
September |
Elaine Palmer | Morning | The Making of ‘Interlaced’ |
| Afternoon | Photographing and Styling Handwovens | ||
| October | Polly Adams Sutton | Morning | Sardinian Basketry |
| December | Jan Paul | Morning | The Art of Japanese Paper Weaving |
| Marilyn Romatka | Afternoon | Baumschmuck ‘Tree Jewelry’ | |
| January | Madelyn van der Hoogt | Morning | On the Shoulders of Giants |
| Afternoon | Tips and Tricks for Weavers | ||
| February | Tien Chiu | Morning | Evolving Designs |
| Afternoon | Wedding Adventures | ||
| March | Dianne Totten | Morning | Cone to Clothing |
| Afternoon | Commenting on Crimp | ||
| April | Daryl Lancaster | Morning | Parallel Threads that Parallel Life |
| Afternoon | Color and Inspiration | ||
| May | John Marshall | Morning | Dealing with What's Been Dealt |
| Afternoon | Treasure and More Treasures: John Marshall Trunk Show | ||
| Summer | Flora Carlile Kovacs | Make a Felted Pouch |