Contemporary Handweavers of Houston

HOT LINKS: short list of most useful web sites of interest to CHH members	ORGANIZATIONS: guilds and other fiber-related organizations
IN PRINT: books, magazines and more.	ON-LINE RESOURCES: list of sources, email lists and other fiber-related pages.
VENDORS/SUPPLIES: stores and sites, online and off.	INSPIRATION: CHH members' pages, other weavers, galleries, etc.
PLACES TO SEE: museums, travel ideas, etc.	SOFTWARE: software for weavers and other crafters
THRUMS: more fun and informative sites	WEBMASTER SUGGESTIONS: suggestions for web-weaving software and resources.

CHH makes no specific endorsements as to the contents of any site referred to here. If you have trouble accessing any of the blue, underlined links, please e-mail us at information@weavehouston.org.

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 - update December, 2011. They will be closing and website is not being maintained any longer. (upsstudio@att.net)
• CHH's Introduce Yourself to Weaving on the Cricket Rigid Heddle Loom.

Kumihimo Lessons in Houston area:

• Giovanna Imperia Designs

Yarn Shops in Houston area:

• Giovanna Imperia Designs
• Lone Star Loom Room
• Upstairs Studio

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Organizations

• Adopt a Native Elder
• American Tapestry Alliance
• 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)
• Texas Museum of Fiber Arts
• 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.
• Fiberarts Online - includes list of weaving and spinning associations, teachers, etc.
• 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).
• Magical Fibers: Art of Weaving - The site has some great resources and information on weaving (history, types, tutorials, etc) that students from Valley Charter School in California recommended as potentially helpful for other students as well.
• 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

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In Print

• Amazon.com
• Crafts Report
• Dover publications on the Web
• Hand Eye Magazine
http://www.handeyemagazine.com/
• 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

• 18 Hands Gallery
• Ann Matlock's tapestries profiled
• Art-Felt, Olga's blog. See also her Etsy Shop, Cherdak.
• Barbara Kile's Distinctive Designs
• 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.
• Ewespecial
• Fibers Artists-Gallery
• Gallery Gen
• Gallery M Squared
• Gary Willson's TW page-Patterns
• Gika Rector's Blog
• Jane Eisenstein's Home Page
• John Waddell Needlepoint
• Laura Fry's Website
• Laura Fry's Blog - Weaving a Life
• Linda Hendrickson Tablet Weaving and Ply-Split Braiding
• Linda Sura, Basket Weaver
• Lone Star Loom Room - Far East Loom Room
• Marni Harang's Blog
• Peter Collingwood
• Phiala's String Pages
• Robin Pascal - Handwovens
• Saganishiki - Japanese Silk and Paper Brocade
• Saganishiki - Mihoko Karaki
• Sarah Swett
• Sheep Thrills - Leticia Rogers
• Sherri Woodard Coffey
• Sooner or Later - Yarngoddess
• Talking About Weaving Blog - Peg in South Carolina
• Textiles As Art, Antique Textiles, Woven Treasures

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Vendors/Supplies

• Amazon.com
• Artistic Wire (aka/ArtWire)
• AVL Looms
• Borgs Weaving Yarn, Sweden
• Camilla Valley Farm Weavers' Supply
• Carol Leigh's Hillcreek Fiber Studio
• Cloth Roads - a global textile marketplace
• Earth Guild-Tools, materials, books for handcrafts
• Fiber Equipment and Barter Page
• Foxfibre Natural Colored Cottons
• Giovanna Imperia Designs in Katy, TX
• Habu Textiles
• 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
• Pat Powell Designs
• Schacht Spindle
• Spinners and Weavers Housecleaning Pages (Used Equipment)
• Spoonflower (Prints your own designs on Fabric)
• Textura Trading Company /Magdalene Aulik Textiles
• Treenway Silks , B.C., Canada
• Upstairs Studio (LaPorte, TX)
• Village Weavers, San Antonio, TX
• WC Mercantile, Navasota, 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

• Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum . Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution is the only museum in the nation devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design. Of interest to the guild: Exhibit Fashioning Felt - on view March 6 to September 7, 2009.
• 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
• Wynne Home Arts Center: The Historic Wynne Home in Hunstville, Texas. Offers classes in the arts as well as tours.

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Suggestions for Webmasters

• AVG Virus Protection Software
• Easy Thumbnails - Freeware software for resizing jpeg files.
• Filezilla - FTP Program (Client version)
• 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.

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