by Diane Ferguson | Dec 10, 2014 | Archive, Blog, Demonstration, Weavehouston Updates
We used to have a booth at Dickens on the Strand in December. Here are Nancy Wells and Robert Beebe in costume in 1987. We demonstrated weaving and spinning and sold some finished goods. The weather was often not cooperative and the effort proved not to be worth...
by Diane Ferguson | Dec 6, 2014 | Archive, Blog, Demonstration, Events, Weavehouston Updates, Weaving
Education is one component of our guild mission statement. We try to accommodate all requests as long as we have willing members. At the risk of discouraging all future volunteers [big grin], I am posting a photo of myself in costume – weaving for the Bellaire...
by Web Weaver | Oct 23, 2014 | Archive, CHH, Contemporary Handweavers of Houston, Demonstration, Spinning, Weavehouston Updates
Connie C. Elliot and other spinning, weaving, and dyeing experts from the Contemporary Handweavers of Houston will demonstrate spinning for khadi cloth, a form of work championed by Gandhi to promote economic self-reliance during the Indian independence movement....
