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…
The meeting this Thursday, May 24th, 7-9 pm, is at Loom with a View. We are very excited to hear Nathanial Needle’s presentation on Saori weaving and the Saori Worcester program. To preview their website please go to http://www.saoriworcester.com/home.htm If there…
Hi NOBO’ERS Our next Circular Sock Knitting Machine Crank-In and Spin-In at the Crank-In will be on this Sunday May 6th! Pleasce come and work on a project~ any fibre arts are welcome. For the past year, I have been…
Allow me to thank all of you for the lovely flowers I received at NOBO’s fourth anniversary celebration. It has been so heartwarming to watch our guild grow and prosper. I look forward to many more years of weaving adventures…
Your trusty delegate has just returned from the latest NEWS planning session, and I am over the moon excited about the classes that will be offered. Mark your calendars now, because you’ll definitely be taking time off from work and…
I would like to sincerely thank every single guild member for growing NOBO Handweavers into a guild that is truly beyond what Betsy and I imagined that first meeting in April 2008. We have gone from this (a section…