Contemporary Handweavers of Houston

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Hottest Links:

These are the workshop presenters for the 2007/2008 year:

• Leticia Rogers - Sheep Thrills
• Sharon Costello -Black Sheep Designs
• Takako Ukei - Habu Textiles

Hot Links

• Amazon
• Contemporary Handweavers of Houston
• Contemporary Handweavers of Houston Classified Ads
• The Fiber Equipment and Barter Page
• Handweavers Guild of America
• Local and Regional Fiber Directory - compiled by Amber Killian (CHH Member).
• Spinners and Weavers Housecleaning Pages

Weaving Lessons in Houston area:

• Lone Star Loom Room (tkweaver@comcast.net)
• Upstairs Studio (upsstudio@att.net)

Yarn Shops in Houston area:

• Lone Star Loom Room
• Upstairs Studio in LaPorte

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Organizations

• Assoc. of Northwest Weavers' Guilds
• Black Sheep Guild-CA
• Complex Weavers Home Page
• Contemporary Handweavers of Texas
• Dallas Handweavers and Spinners Guild
• European Textile Network
• Fort Worth Weavers Guild
• Handweavers Guild of America
• Heart of Texas Spinners and Weavers (Waco)
• Heritage Fiber Guild (Lubbock)
• Houston Area Fiber Artists
• Houston Center for Contemporary Crafts
• Houston Polymer Clay Guild
• John C. Campbell Folk School
• Rio Fiber Arts Guild
• Sam Houston Weavers and Spinners (Huntsville)
• The Arts Alliance of Clear Lake (TAACL)
• The Society for Creative Anachronism
• Tall Pines Spinners and Weavers of Houston, Texas
• Texas Fiber Guild (online)
• Textile Society of America
• Weave a Real Peace (WARP)
• Weaving and Spinning Society of Austin

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On-line Resources

• All Fiber Arts - Paivi Suomi's site
• Complex Cloth e-mail group (to join)
• Crochet Pattern Central : an online directory featuring thousands of links to free crochet patterns..
• Dyeing Yahoo Group : NaturalDyes
• eLoomaNation: Big Ideas from Little Looms with manuals and project ideas for old Weave-It looms, Loomettes and other small looms.
• Felting Dictionary at Hatshapers.com
• Feltmakers List general & joining info
• The Feltmaking Process - by Shelby Cefarati - a tutorial on the HGA website.
• Handweaving Net: - cool site with access to thousands of weaving drafts and weavers can contribute their own.
• Houston Area Fiber Artists
• Knitting Pattern Central : an online directory featuring thousands of links to free knitting patterns.
• "List-of-Lists" of Fiber-related Mailing Lists
• Local and Regional Fiber Directory compiled by Amber Killian (CHH Member).
• Nuno Felt Purse youTube video by Gika Rector
• Ruthe Stowe's Weaving Resources
• The Spinning Wheel Sleuth Newsletter
• Tablet-Weaving List -sponsored by TWIST
• Tapestry2001 (formerly the Tapestry list)
• Treadle Reducer program
• Weavecast: A Podcast for Handweavers
• WeaveRing (A listing of Weaving Blogs) - Look below the ads to the numerical list of weaving blogs.
• Weavershand
• WeaveTech e-list
• WeaveZine - online weaving magazine from the originator of Weavecast!
• Weaving Classes listed on Interweave Press Web Site
• The Weaving List - instructions for joining this very active e-mail list
• Weaving List archives
• Welcome to FiberArt.com

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In Print

• Amazon.com
• Crafts Report
• Dover publications on the Web
• Interweave Press
• Lark Books, home of Fiberarts Magazine and Folkwear Patterns
• North American Felters' Network newsletter
• Hard-to-Find Needlework Books
• On-Line Digital Archive of Documents on Weaving and Related Topics , (Ralph Griswold's site)
• Powell's Bookstore out of print books.
• WeaveTech archives (PDF files)-from Ralph Griswold
• Young Yarn User Magazine

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Inspiration

• Ann Matlock's tapestries profiled
• Black Sheep Designs - Sharon Costello
• Carolyn Dahl
• Color Chart: Reinventing Color from 1950 to Today - Color Chart Exhibit from MOMA
• Copper Shade Tree in Round Top. Texas artisans including some familiar names!
• Craft in America. The web site component of a multi-year, multi-faceted project to showcase the work of American artists working in clay, wood, metal, glass and fiber.
• Fibers Artists-Gallery
• Gallery Gen
• Gary Willson's TW page-Patterns
• Jane Eisenstein's Home Page
• John Waddell Needlepoint
• Linda Hendrickson Tablet Weaving and Ply-Split Braiding
• Linda Sura, Basket Weaver
• Marni Harang's Blog
• Peter Collingwood
• Phiala's String Pages
• Robin Pascal - Handwovens
• Saganishiki - Japanese Silk and Paper Brocade
• Saganishiki - Mihoko Karaki
• Sheep Thrills - Leticia Rogers
• Textural Space: Contemporary Japanese textile art

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Vendors/Supplies

• Amazon.com
• Artistic Wire (aka/ArtWire)
• AVL Looms
• Becky Johnson's Chenille Yarn
• Borgs Weaving Yarn, Sweden
• Buxton Brook Looms - Weavette Hand Held Looms (formerly Weave-It Looms)
• Camilla Valley Farm Weavers' Supply
• Carol Leigh's Hillcreek Fiber Studio
• Earth Guild-Tools, materials, books for handcrafts
• Fiber Equipment and Barter Page
• Foxfibre Natural Colored Cottons
• Habu Textiles
• Handweavers Studio and Gallery Ltd, UK
• Hardanger Flid Tapestry
• Halcyon Yarn , Harrisville, NH
• Harrisville Designs , Harrisville, NH
• Jacquard Products Home Page
• Kreinik Manufacturing Company,Inc.-metallic threads
• Lacis Descriptive On-line Catalog
• Leclerc Looms, Plessisville, Qc, Canada
• Lone Star Loom Room, Katy, TX
• Louet
• Lunatic Fringe Yarns
• Lynn's Texas Fibers , Pearland,TX or E-mail for info, texasfiber@houston.rr.com
• Merribee Needlearts and Crafts , Houston, TX
• Nordic Studio
• Norsk Fjord Fiber
• Schacht Spindle
• Sericulum : Products for Life Sciences(Silkworms)
• Spinners and Weavers Housecleaning Pages (Used Equipment)
• Textura Trading Company /Magdalene Aulik Textiles
• Three Weavers
• Treenway Silks , B.C., Canada
• Upstairs Studio (LaPorte, TX)
• Village Weavers, San Antonio, TX
• Weaving Southwest (aka Rio Grande Weavers Supply)
• Webs - America's Yarn Store
• White Rock Weaving Center (Dallas)

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Software

• DB-Weave Home Page
• Jane Eisenstein's Home Page
• Fiberworks PCW
• Patternland
• PixeLoom
• ProWeave (Cameron Fibre Arts)
• Treadle Reducer program
• Weaving Software - Survey
• Weaveit
• Weavemaker

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Thrums

• Dharma Trading Co's Procion Dye chart
• Horse Hair Design
• Kid 'n Ewe & Llamas Too,TX
• Paula Burch's web site on Dyeing. Don't overlook the FAQs section with great information on dyes - Dyeing FAQ
• Sheeps USA
• Texas Indians site -for kids and all!
• Van's Home on the Web Among other things, Van will make 35 mm slides from Digital Files. This is a referral from the QuiltArt list via Diane F.

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Places to See

• Houston Center for Contemporary Craft. Houston Center for Contemporary Craft is a nonprofit organization founded to advance education about the process, product and history of craft. The Center's major emphasis is on objects of art made primarily of fiber, metal, glass, clay and wood. Super place to visit in Houston, Texas.
• The Arts Alliance of Clear Lake
• The National Museum of the American Coverlet
• The Textile Museum, Washington, D.C., USA
• Weaving Away: Fibreartsonline travel directory set up to link travelers who work with fibers to hosts with similar interests.

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Suggestions for Webmasters

• AVG Virus Protection Software
• Easy Thumbnails - Freeware software for resizing jpeg files.
• Gimp - Image Manipulation Program
• Head First HTML with CSS and XHTML:This book sorted out my confusion about CSS and HTML. Basic and fun.
• CSE HTML Validator - html editing
• Lunar Pages. This is the Web Host that CHH uses. We have been happy with them and their service. If you sign up via this link, we get affiliate rewards for the guild. If you have any questions about our experience, our webmaster will be happy to respond to your queries.
• Mozilla- Great Browser alternative to Internet Explorer
• Nvu-Web Authoring System
• Virus information- Check out this site for alerts for new viruses.
• Virus Hoaxes- Always check out this site or the web site of your antivirus software before you pass on emails about viruses.