Links

A small collection of links for the Fiber Community

Member Fiber Related Websites (members: please send updates to the webmaster)

• Boisali Biswas – Mixed media fiber
• Michael Daitch – Examples of his work including Tallitot Project
• Susan Lolli  – Photos of her weaving along with photography and encaustic
• Eric Schillinger – Quaine Lane Arts 

Guild Links

• Complex Weavers – Complex Weavers is dedicated to expanding the boundaries of handweaving.
• Eastside Weavers – Blog for the Eastside Weavers, Grosse Pointe, Michigan
• Handweavers Guild of America – HGA provides a National forum for handweavers, handspinners, and related fiber.
• Michigan League of Handweavers – MLH is devoted to promoting handweaving via educational opportunities.
• Surface Design Association – Creative Exploration of Fiber & Fabric

Tools

• Handweaving.net – This website is a digital weaving archive with drafts, historic weaving documents, and more.
  • Skeleton Tieup Search: a new page to help find skeleton tieups for weaving on rising shed looms.  http://reducer.handweaving.net
    Skeleton tieups are useful if you have enough shafts to weave a draft but not enough treadles, and don’t mind using more than one treadle at once
• On-Line Digital Archive of Documents on Weaving and Related Topics– contains material on weaving, basketry, lace, and related subjects.
• Online Mother Of All Yarn Calculators – Link to online spreadsheet to calculate yarn requirements for weaving projects. Includes yardage required for sectional warping.
• Tim’s Rudimentary Treadle Reducer – to reduce the number of treadles to we’ve your draft.
• Sett Chart from The New York Guild of Handweavers

Michigan Weaving Shops (support your local stores)

• Forma – Whitmore Lake, Michigan
• Heritage Spinning and Weaving – Lake Orion, Michigan
• Woven Art – East Lansing, Michigan

Partial List of Websites of Previous MWG Guild Lecture or Workshop Presenters

• Cathryn Amidei – Jacquard Weaving
• Lois Bryant – Jacquard Weaving
• Jason Collingwood – Rug Weaving
• Karen Donde – Turned Beiderwand
• Elizabeth Hill – Deflected Doubleweave
• Bonnie Kay – Weaver
• Cynthia LaMaide – Clothing
• Heather Macali – Jacquard Weaving
• Jennifer Moore – Doubleweave
• Jeremy Noonan – Textile Design
• Kayla Powers – Salt Textile Studios
• Martha Reeves – Bead Leno
• Robin Spady – Two Sides to Every Cloth, The Thrill of the Twill
• Diane Totten – Crimp Cloth
• Mary Underwood – Handspan yarn and fibers, handwoven textiles

Other Links of Interest

• Indigo Growing Blue – An Indiana based participatory art project led by Rowland Ricketts
• Blog post about lashing on  a warp – http://dustbunniesundermyloom.blogspot.com/2013/09/lashing-on-warp-or-lashing-out-about.html