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Woven Baby Wraps
Guest Post by Tracy Kaestner: $90 – $250 @ yard for Handwoven Cotton Fabric! Really, it’s true! There is a trend right now that many weavers don’t know about – baby wraps. Wraps are long […]
Month: November 2013
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HAFA – Art for Art’s Sake – Slideshows
Great slideshows of the recent juried HAFA Gallery Show “Art for Art’s Sake” on the Houston Area Fiber Artists website! CHH Member Scharine Kirchoff is among the entries. Her included artwork, “Rage in the Wind”, […]
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HCCC Volunteer of the Year
CHH member Pat Powell received the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft Volunteer of the Year award. Check it out on Pat Powell Designs. I’ve followed Pat’s blog and was aware of her enthusiastic participation in […]
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Forever in Blue Jeans
Mary Welch sent this: “There is an interesting story in the current Hand/Eye Magazine issue about an ongoing project to make a pair of jeans beginning by dyeing and weaving the cloth.” Read the Article […]
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Holiday Potluck
The Holiday Potluck will be on December 8! Full details over on the Member site. You will have an opportunity to sign up at the November 21 Guild Meeting or contact Scharine, programs chair.
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Call for Entries – Convergence
From Diane: HGA has released info on the exhibitions for 2014 convergence. More opportunity to show your work! HGA’s Juried Convergence Exhibits: Small Expressions 2014 [ Prospectus ] Yardage Exhibit – Ebb and Flow [ […]
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Extreme Fibers – Call for Entries
Extreme Fibers: Textile Icons and the New Edge: August 20 through November 1, 2015 The Muskegon Museum of Art announces a call for entries for Extreme Fibers: Textile Icons and the New Edge, a two-part […]
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Call For Entries – Texas National 2014
Stephen F. Austin’s 20th annual juried competition and exhibition, Texas National 2014, provides emerging artists an opportunity to have work juried by highly acclaimed artist Jerome Witkin. See the Prospectus or respond to the Call […]
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Color and Weave at Guild House
Yarngoddess posted a great photo-filled article about the Color and Weave class taught by Tracy Kaestner at the Contemporary Handweavers of Houston Guild House. See the post over at Sooner or Later….
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Art We Use – Call for Entries
The Dairy Barn Arts Center announces: Art We Use . . . a new national juried exhibition of objects, with a broad base of media – works in wood, clay, metal, glass, paper, fiber – […]
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CHHit CHHat – November
The November 2013 CHHit CHHat Newsletter is available on the CHH Member site. Your member login and password is needed to access it. Editor DeeDee Woodbury has an information-filled newsletter for us this month with […]
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CHT Art Camp – Basketry with Paper Workshop
Basketry With Paper taught by Rebecca Shanks is one of four two-day workshops available at CHT Art Camp 2014. Art Camp Workshops – Saturday and Sunday $125.00 for two days plus supply fee, if it […]