This month NOBO will meet at the Newburyport Public Library on State Street. The Social time will be from 6-6:30pm and the Business portion will be from 6:30-7:15pm. Refreshments will be served. Our program will be a slide presentation, by…
The library is now temporarily housed at my house. Hopefully when we find a permanent space for guild meetings, our library will also find its permanent home. For the meanwhile, it seems happy here. I have just gone through all…
Blow are snippets of the press release as posted at SB’s website. See the link below to read the entire thing. “This exhibition portrays the people of Portsmouth, the way they lived and worked and the way…
Saturday June 23 the Weavers Guild of Boston will have a tent sale in Waltham, MA of small equipment, yarn, books, magazines, and some beautiful and quite new Louet table looms! See the link for details. All welcome! http://www.weaversguildofboston.org/ Laurie…
Schacht 36″ 4 shaft low castle loom. Number 315, 1979. When Barry Schacht visited A Loom with a View recently, he sat down at this loom and said “Hello old friend!”. Rescued and lovingly restored by yours truly. New heddles,…
For the foreseeable future I will have the guild library in my house, therefore I am taking over for Betsy as one of the “Keepers of the Written Word”. I want to reinstitute Joan B’s wonderful monthly book review –…
The Weaver’s Guild of Boston has been hard at work producing a 90th anniversary weaving book. At 208 full-color, 8.5″ by 11″ pages, it includes guild history, woven works (the bulk of the book), references, and an index. The pieces,…
Check out this fun time lapse video of an Ikat project. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vfa7srYWo4s And this, my friends, is a grand way to turn a hole or a tear in your favorites clothes into a work of art! http://blog.karenbarbe.com/2011/07/creative-mending-part-2-patches.html Now get your…