Board Meeting
Little Looms to Take Along
Photos from the Saturday meeting on using little looms that are easy to take along on summer vacation. Lots of little looms on display – inkle looms, tapestry frames, and pin looms and examples of […]
Weaving
Classes
New Classes at the Guild House
Inkle Weaving with Deb Harrison 2 days – Saturday/Sunday July 23/24; 10am – 4pm $160.00 The term “inkle” means ribbon or tape and probably refers to a similarly structured woven band that could have been […]
Demonstration
Folk Life Festival
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 […]
Archive
Indigo Dye class and Beginning Floor Loom Classes
Happy New Year! Start the year with a fun day learning how to dye with indigo! Indigo Dye Day with Connie Elliott Saturday, January 9th, 10:00 am – 3:00 pm Take the challenge of […]
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October Guild Meeting with Rosalie Neilson
The Power of Block Design One hour lecture – Rosalie Neilson Block designs consist of black and white blocks on grid paper, where black is considered the pattern block and white the background block. Learn […]
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Spin and Weave In
Join us and Celebrate National Spinning and Weaving Week on Saturday, October 3, 10-2. Come and join us at the Guild House for a fun day communing with like-minded people. Bring your loom, wheel, whatever […]
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spring round robin
Must be spring if there are robins at the Guild House! The weaving Round Robin was great fun. Everyone agreed it was a good format for introducing new structures to beginning and intermediate weavers. DeeDee […]
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Crimp and Create – Dianne Totten
Crimp and Create Workshop with Dianne Totten, January 16th—18th CHH hosted a workshop on creating cloth that holds its shibori shape permanently. 15 of us gathered at Art Square Studio to learn the shibori on […]
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Swatch Swap 2015 – Literary Threads
ALERT: Sign Up deadline is February 1! Are you ready for a fun, no stress learning activity to start the New Year? CHH members are invited to participate in Swatch Swap 2015. The topic, decided […]
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warm and wonderful
An exhibition of coverlets in keeping with the cold winter weather. Has anyone visited this museum?
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pop up weaving shop
Education is one component of our guild mission statement. We try to accommodate all requests as long as we have willing members. At the risk of discouraging all future volunteers [big grin], I am posting […]
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Contemporary Handweavers of Houston Sponsor an Award at HGA’s Convergence 2014.
Guest Post by DeeDee Woodbury I am happy to announce the first winner of the Contemporary Handweavers of Houston Weaving Award at HGA’s Convergence 2014. Lois Russell of Boston was selected, by juror Gerhard Knodel, […]