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Monthly Guild Programs 2026 - 2027
Twill Transformations
Susannah Day
September 28, 2026
Take a journey through the magical world of point twills. We will begin with some twill basics, then explore what else can be woven with a point twill threading. Since we don't have a week to chat about the topic, we'll end with some guidance on how to continue learning and exploring how to transform twills on your own.
The Power of Block Design
Rosalie Nelson
October 26, 2026
Block designs consist of black and white squares on grid paper, where black is considered the pattern block and white the background block. Through a slide presentation, find out how one weaver used the binary number system and the textures of 4-shaft huck lace to develop the definitive number of two-block motifs, and how these simple motifs become the building blocks of more elaborate patterns.
Making It Your Own
Weave Structures Study Group
November 16, 2026
Have you noticed that Handwoven magazine has added a feature to their weaving articles called "Make It Your Own?" The Weave Structure Study group will share their explorations into modifying projects found in Handwoven to create their own weaving drafts. They'll attempt to answer the question, "Are modifications required, or can you just follow the directions as published?"
Kris Bruland
January 25, 2027
Suzie Liles' Textile Adventures
Suzie Liles
February 20, 2027 (Saturday meeting)
Suzie Liles of Eugene Textile Center will be our guest speaker for our meeting in February. She will share with us her textile journey from her first exposure to weaving, to teaching alongside Madelyn van der Hoogt at the Weavers School in WA, to the amazing textile travel adventures she shares with enthusiasts from across the globe. She is not only the owner of Eugene Textile Center but also co-owns Glimakra USA with her daughter Sarah. Many of us have seen the numerous contributions Suzie has made to Handwoven Magazine. It is certain to be a great meeting.
TBD
March 22, 2027
Fiberama
April 24, 2027 (Saturday Meeting)
Weaving the Willamette
Cathy Barnes
May 24, 2027
This program will be a celebration of the 2026-2027 challenge to "Weave the Willamette." Various projects will be highlighted to demonstrate different ways guild members have represented the Willamette River in their weavings. Awards for the corresponding show in the ETC Gallery will be announced. The goal is to make it a fun and festive program celebrating our connection to the river that begins just south of Eugene and flows north through the homes of other Oregon weaving guilds as it makes it way to the Columbia.
Monthly Guild Programs 2025 - 2026
Fiberama
September 20, 2025 (In person only)
Note: This is a Saturday meeting
Every other year guild members get the urge to renew their stash of fiber, equipment, and related items, and support the guild at the same time. Join us on September 20 for the guild rummage sale. Anything fiber-related may find a new home at this sale. So, start setting aside things you know you won't use. The sale will start immediately after the guild business meeting on Saturday, September 20.
Important to know: All the goods are donations, with proceeds going to the Eugene Weavers' Guild. Nothing will be on consignment. Unsold items will be donated to charity.
What to bring: Yarns; roving; spools; pirns and bobbins; tools; woven pieces that somebody might make something from; patterns for weaving, knitting, crochet, or garments; fabrics you'll never use; books on fiber crafts; etc.
Drop Off: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday of the previous week. (Sept. 15-17)
How to help: Please contact Karen Sieradski (karensieradski@comcast.net) if you would like to help organize the sale. It's really fun working together on this!
Rag Rugs - Old into New
Steve McGrath
October 27, 2025 (In-Person and Zoom Meeting)
Steve McGrath is an artist who turns rags into works of art. With a degree in art history, training as a water colorist and experience as a professional color consultant, Steve creates rugs with character. He uses a loom to let fabrics weave stories inspired by color, texture, and his own eye for beauty. Join us for a 30 minute presentation capturing Steve’s thoughts on color, design, and insight into how he selects fabrics followed by the opportunity to purchase one of his rugs.
Weaving Art, A Look Behind the Scenes
Theo Rooden
November 17, 2025 (In-Person and Zoom Meeting)
Theo will share with us his signature in weaving, originating from a lifelong fascination with geometric patterns. He’ll talk about sources of inspiration and his design and production process on hand looms. Using examples from his many projects and beautiful work to bring these concepts to life, Theo will provide practical tips and ideas to inspire and support weavers in their own weaving projects.
Designing Doubleweave
Jeremy Uden
January 26, 2026 (In-Person and Zoom Meeting)
Jeremy will talk about his weaving life, and experiments with double weave, starting on four shafts, moving on to eight and then to 32. We will hear about the way he designs, see how he uses Photoshop Elements to design double weave, and how this process can work for as few as eight shafts. Jeremy will show plentiful examples of his work, as well as talk about his day job as Head of Conservation at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford and the way they work with their amazing textile collection.
Elegant Band Weaving: Rigid Heddles and Pattern Heddles
Ruth McGregor
February 21, 2026 (In-Person and Zoom Meeting)
Note: This is a Saturday meeting
Whether functional or just pretty, narrow bands are important parts of our weaving landscape. A plain, hard-working band has its own special beauty; but if it also has color and pattern, it sings to the human soul. Stripes add color, of course, but sometimes a weaver yearns for a varied pattern that's more satisfying to the eye and more interesting to weave.
Most of us have woven something with pick-up patterning (please don't groan); but many (many!) weavers find the process unacceptably slow. So, what if there were a way to create pick-up patterns in warp-faced bands without painstakingly poking through all the warps with a little stick? Spoiler: There is.
Clever weavers through the centuries have created devices to speed the process of weaving pick-up. Some are rigid heddles, modified to make pattern weaving more efficient. Other devices are more complicated and involve setups akin to small drawlooms.
This program (starting small!) introduces two different kinds of pattern heddle, dating back to the 17th century (based on dates inscribed on original tools). We'll see how they work, how they differ, and what they can do. Come and be surprised — pick-up patterning is more satisfying than you may have suspected!
Members' Tea
March 23, 2026 (In-Person and Zoom Meeting)
When the program for the March 23rd meeting needed rescheduling, the Program Committee and the Board of Directors considered it a great opportunityto hold a Members' Tea. We hope everyone within driving distance will join us for the meeting and stay to enjoy light refreshments, learn more about the guild, socialize, and offer thoughts about how the guild can best serve our members.
Profile Drafts, Blocks and Block Weaves: Unleash Your Own Designs with 4 - 40 Shafts!
Multi-Shaft Study Group
April 25, 2026 (In-Person and Zoom Meeting)
Note: This is a Saturday meeting
Description: Get ready for a journey through profile drafts and block weave design possibilities! The "Beyond 8" study group will start with an explanation of profile drafts, designing with blocks and weave structure options for 4 shafts to 40 shafts. This will launch us into sharing insights gained from each of us weaving the same 4 block profile draft over the last year. We challenged ourselves to weave three pieces. We wove two pieces using the profile design in a weave structure of our choice, one on 8 or fewer shafts (including a rigid heddle loom!), and the other on "beyond 8" shafts. Lastly, each of us modified the original profile draft, then wove a third piece with the intent of creating a wildly different look. We are excited to share our learnings and newfound appreciation of profile drafts.
After our presentation, we invite you to join us for a walk through the ETC gallery to show our work!
Report on Research in Valencia
Barbara Picket
May 18, 2026 (In-Person and Zoom Meeting)
Barbara Pickett will present the results of her research at The Silk Museum in Valencia, Spain. She was invited to return to the museum to continue her study of the archive of Vicente Enguidanos, whose two Jacquard looms, tools, documents and handwoven velvets are housed there. This work will continue Barbara’s research documenting velvet weaving in ateliers around the world.
Monthly Guild Programs 2024 - 2025
Monthly Guild Programs 2023 - 2024
Woolens and Waulkings: Tartans and Tweeds
Beth Ross Johnson
September 23, 2024 (In-person and Zoom meeting)
For centuries, plaid twills have been a cultural marker for Celtic people, the earliest examples of wool tweed dating from the second millennium BCE. This presentation will talk about those early examples, the migration to the later Celtic lands in the British Isles and the state of the tweed and tartan in Scotland after the industrial Revolution and more recently. Oh, and sheep. And how did all that tartan stuff start? And what is a waulking?
Tapestry: Learn, Practice and Share
Terry Olson
October 28, 2024 (In-person and Zoom meeting)
Using the theme of Learn, Practice and Share, Terry Olson will describe her 30-year tapestry practice. She talks about who helped her learn, how she practices and experiments, and then shares what she learns by teaching others. Terry’s slideshow will showcase her tapestries, as well as her history with the Damascus Fiber Arts School and the American Tapestry Alliance. She will have tapestries with her for viewers to examine up close.
My Fiber Journey
Natalie Drummond
November 11, 2024 (In-person and Zoom meeting)
Natalie has focused on teaching weaving with hand dyed yarns and has been studying deflected doubleweave since 2017! Her love of color, fiber, and finishing processes has led her on a continuous path of learning and discovery including ice dyeing to build color palettes. Color hue, value, and the importance of being able to bring harmony in your weaving will be presented through her handwoven samples.
Elements of Design
Stacey Harvey Brown
January 27, 2025 (In-person and Zoom meeting)
Inspiration is everywhere – from nature, from books, from tv, from a sudden insight. The challenge is how to translate your inspiration into woven form. Elements of Design looks at how to isolate particular parts of a visual inspiration and take that into your woven work. We examine a number of varied sources, find out which elements really engage you and look at how to represent that through specific woven techniques, structures and materials. So that you get a dynamic sense of how relevant the theory is for your own weaving, the presentation also includes a walk-through of some real-life examples that I have faced in my weaving life and how I solved the design problems that my inspiration threw up. This overview of the design process directly related to a woven interpretation provides a firm understanding of the basics underlining translating ideas from source to end result.
A Tutorial on Turning Weaving Drafts
EWG Weave Structures Study Group
February 24, 2025
What does it mean to turn a weaving draft? And why would you want to do it? We will attempt to answer these questions and provide examples from a variety of turned projects.
Weaving By Design
Kelly Marshall
March 24, 2025
Kelly Marshall is recognized for combining Rep weave’s rich texture and linear structure into extraordinary textiles inspired by the aesthetics of the Arts & Crafts movement, contemporary design, and traditional Scandinavian weaving. Kelly will show you the inspiration behind her designs and how she translates that inspiration into woven textiles. She will share her beginnings in fiber art and how that developed into her weaving business and the publishing of her book “Custom Woven Interiors: Bringing Color and Design Home with Rep Weave”
Loom Maintenance and Repair Tips
Rob Merz
April 28, 2025
Want to know the best way to keep your loom a happy weaving machine? Curious if you have the right tools for maintaining the wood and metal so they function properly ? We'll talk dos and don'ts, adjustments, and even transporting your loom (or wheel) so you can thoroughly enjoy creating with it.
A Celebration of the Flowing Colors Project
Members of the EWG
May 19, 2025
This program will review the dye techniques from our summer 2024 dye days, and look at the textiles woven from our yarns. We will take a look at the weaving drafts used in some of the projects on display. Four awards will be announced - Best Ice-Dyed Project, Best Painted Warp Project, Best Natural Dye Project, and Best In Show.