by Web Weaver | Apr 21, 2019 | Guest Post, Links, Our Crafts, Videos
My videographer husband, Rainer Romatka, and I have spent the past 3 years working on a new feature-length documentary film celebrating handwoven cloth. The film is called “Interlacements: Threads and Lives”. We are taking a unique view of hand-weaving in the movie,...
by Web Weaver | Dec 12, 2017 | Excerpt, Links, Our Crafts, Weaving
“My dad was a weaver, so we just grew up with it,” Mackay told me. In 1991, he and his wife Maureen set up the Luskentyre Harris Tweed Company, and in 2011 he was awarded an MBE for his services to the industry. Read the full story here. (Photo Credit: Kathryn...
by Diane Ferguson | Apr 6, 2016 | Demonstration, Our Crafts, Spinning, Volunteer Opportunity, Weaving, WOW
Saturday, April 2, 2016; members of WOW and Tall Pines demonstrated spinning and weaving at the Katy Folk Life Festival. The beautiful day brought out an amazing number of festival goers. Here are a few photos. Marian C. demonstrating on a cardboard loom. Marian C....
by Diane Ferguson | Mar 19, 2016 | Our Crafts, Tutorial, Warping
by Blaine Davis Warping is not one of my favorite things to do. There’s that nagging uneasiness the whole time as to whether you have the right number of threads, and are they the right length, and so on, that pervades the process. Plus there’s the back ache, both...
by Web Weaver | Oct 27, 2014 | Archive, Blog, CHH, Contemporary Handweavers of Houston, Guild Meeting, Meeting, Our Crafts, Weavehouston Updates, Weaving, Workshops
Guest post: Tracy Kaestner At the Rep Weave workshop, 15 CHH members had a wonderful time weaving Rep with Rosalie Neilson. Rosalie was an excellent teacher, she really worked hard to make sure everyone had success. Participants choose from a large selection of...
by Web Weaver | Jun 26, 2014 | Archive, Blog, Dyeing, Members, Our Crafts, Weavehouston Updates
The webweaver observed a peiod of great anticipation on a couple of CHH member blogs as Pat Powell Designs and Sooner or Later recounted attendance at the Magic of Organic Dyeing Workshop and then waiting a month! to see the result of some of their Eco dye bundles. I...
