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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 23, 2026 (In-Person and Zoom Meeting)
Never Say Never
Linda Borntrager
March 23, 2026 (In-Person and Zoom Meeting)
Linda will share with us her experiences over a lifetime of weaving. As a production weaver creating cloth for couture clothing to an artist creating works of art, Linda’s life story will make you laugh, possibly make you cry, but definitely inspire you on your own weaving journey.
Multi-Shaft Study Group
April 27, 2026 (In-Person and Zoom Meeting)
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.
Monthly Guild Programs 2023 - 2024
Our first meeting of the 2023-2024 guild year will be our biennial fundraiser. Please plan on attending in-person for our
Mini-Fiberama!
Monday, September 25th 10-12:30*
at the Eugene Textile Center
On sale will be donated yarns, books, textiles, equipment, clothing, and services. And there will be doorprizes and treats. We have already received 6 bins of Guatemalan textiles and 4 boxes of yarn, and can’t wait to see what comes in during the week before the sale.
Guild members may bring in donations of yarn (things from your stash you don’t want any more), books (anything fiber-related), and small weaving or spinning equipment. In addition, as a new twist this year, we are asking for donations of ethnic-inspired clothing or accessories. (maybe something you bought on vacation or at a street-faire that doesn’t fit any more, or no longer sparks that joy?) We will also accept donations of services like hemming, baking, or lessons.
*our business meeting will be held from 10 to 11 and the sale begins at 11
*door-prizes will be awarded randomly starting at 10
*you are welcome to bring friends who are non-guild members
*we are not a 501(C)3 non-profit and donations are not tax-deductable
*If items do not sell, we will donate what’s left to ETC, MECCA, or SVDP. If you would prefer to have your unsold items returned to you, we can accommodate this if each item is clearly marked with this information.
Getting Ready for our Fiber Arts Celebration and Sale
October 23, 2023 (In-person and Zoom meeting)
The Sales Committee will entertain and inform us while emphasizing three main thoughts: The Celebration and Sale is so much more than just a sale, there are a multitude of ways for you to become involved, and a clear path ahead for next steps.
Weaving TnT: Dynamite Tips 'n Techniques for Every Weaver
Robyn Spady
November 13, 2023 (In-person and Zoom meeting)
Would you like to learn a great method for repairing a broken warp end, tracking your treadling while you weave, making your own repair heddles, or just make weaving easier and more pleasurable? This gizmo and gadget centric presentation looks and feels like an interactive show-and-tell and will introduce over 36 offbeat tools, techniques, or tricks to assist weavers in all phases of weaving.
An Exploration of Double Huck
Cally Booker
January 22, 2024 (In-person and Zoom meeting)
One of the happy surprises of this structure is just how appealing a double huck fabric is. From elegant scarves with beautiful drape, to towels and blankets with an irresistible ‘bounce’, it is lovely to wear and to handle. In this presentation, Cally will introduce double huck and take you on a tour through her experimentation with this flexible and attractive structure.
Weaving Basics Study Group Presents: Gamps Galore!
February 26, 2024
The Weaving Basics group will showcase gamps woven as group projects and individual explorations. Napkins woven for their napkin exchange using the Missouri Check block draft will demonstrate the many ways to take one draft, along with fiber and color guidelines, and end up with a multitude of beautiful and varied woven pieces.
Talk the Talk: Words for Weavers
Ruth MacGregor
March 25, 2024
Why worry about words and what things are called? What do those terms we hear all the time actually mean? Communication is important, especially when we want to share things with other people. This presentation dives into the ways we talk about weaving – structures, traditions, regions, habits and styles. The way we use weaving words is not just vocabulary. It's the thread of understanding that joins us in this pursuit we all love. This program will open new ways of thinking about weaving words, and it comes with resource lists and a special recipe. Join us!
An Uphill Tromp
Dee Brown Scholarship Research Presentation
Krista Richey
April 22, 2024
Krista’s presentation will chronicle a headbanging adventure into the jungle of 2 treadles and 24 shafts. The trials and tribulations of sectional warping, threading 1000 ends, compu-dobbies, and the pursuit of beautiful cloth will be shared.
The Flowing Line
Bonnie Inouye
May 20, 2024
Many traditional weaving patterns use a repeated motif, stripes, or geometric designs, but sometimes we want to create a sense of movement in a loom-controlled design. Which structures can be used to weave smoothly flowing lines? Design ideas, problems and solutions, and placement of curves on the project will be discussed.