The website www.cnch.org of The Conference of Northern California Handweavers, CNCH, includes a very comprehensive list of links. Some of the more local links are duplicated here to give you quicker access. We also have listed a few links here that do not appear on the CNCH site.
CNCH publishes a quarterly e-journal. You can read it on the CNCH website at http://www.cnch.org/cnchnet/ .
Gudrun Polak: www.theloomybin.com
Jill Sanders: www.heartgallery.com
Lorri Scott: www.lasfibers.com
Annie MacHale: www.ASpinnerWeaver.com
Guild member Nora Rogers wrote this article, Twining Demo, Nov. 2007 when she demonstrated this technique for the Guild braids study group.
If you are a member of the guild and wish to add your web site this this section, please contact the guild webmaster (listed in your roster) directly or you can use the guild email.
May 31- June 2, 2013: The annual Conference will be held at The Resort at Squaw Creek, Olympic Valley, California. This event will be a retreat style conference with hands-on mini-workshops and interactive seminars. There will be a Tailgate Market on Friday afternoon in the resort's valet parking lot.
The Conference of Northern California Handweavers, CNCH, is an organization of the guilds of Northern California. The CNCH website maintains a listing of many of the textile related events, lectures and activities being offered around the Bay Area. We encourage you to check the CNCH calendar page for a broad range of events
The Textile Arts Council is a support group of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, created to advance the appreciation of the Museums&prime textile and costume collections within the Bay Area community. TAC offers lecture programs, visits to working artists&prime studios, hands-on workshops, and international travel opportunities.
The Guild does not currently list items for sale on this website but will be happy include information about your item in our weekly email update to the membership. Please send information with a full description, email, and phone contact information to the guild e-mail address. We will be happy to include a photograph if you send a digital image.
There are websites that list spinning and weaving tools as well as fibers for sale. One is Spinners', Weavers', and Knitters' Housecleaning Pages. There is a great deal of information on this website so you will have to look for the links to the pages you want to either shop for tools and fibers or to contact them to post items you wish to sell.
The Conference of Northern California Handweavers, www.cnch.org. This site includes links to member guilds, member's home pages, classes, comprehensive supplier's list, and much more.
The Handweavers Guild of America, Inc., www.weavespindye.org
The Lace Museum, www.thelacemuseum.org , Sunnyvale, CA.
The Textile Arts Council, www.textileartscouncil.org, in the de Young Museum, San Francisco.
The Gloria F. Ross Center for Tapestry Studies, www.tapestrycenter.org, in Tucson, AZ is focused on Southwest weaving.
The Textile Museum, www.textilemuseum.org in Washington, DC
Complex Weavers, www.complex-weavers.org
Central Coast Weavers Guild, www.centralcoastweavers.org in San Luis Obispo
The Association of Northwest Weavers' Guilds, northwestweavers.org
The Center for Traditional Textiles, www.incas.org in Cusco, Peru. This organization was started by Nilda Callanaupa. It maintains a reciprocal relationship with weavers in Peruvian villages, providing them with a place to stay in Cusco while they demonstrate and sell their traditional textiles, and organizational support for weavers in the communities.
Fundación Chol-Chol, www.cholchol.org. An organization of traditional Mapuche weavers promoting the recovery of ancient weaving techniques and natural dyes. Their work is developed under Fair Trade regulations ensuring a fair price for the craftswomen offering a non-profit support.
Mexican Indigenous Textiles Project, www.mexicantextiles.com. This is a project of Robert Freund to document indigenous Mexican textiles from 300 villages with photos of the textiles, people wearing the textiles, village life and surrounding environment.
The Thread Project, www.threadproject.com is Terry Helwig's (artist organizer) World Soul Project: One World, One Cloth. "Weaving a social fabric that celebrates diversity, encourages tolerance and promotes compassionate community." [Suggested by Dana Thompson.]
Innovations in Textiles 6 in St. Louis,www.craftalliance.org/news/IT6.htm September-October, 2005. This is a biannual collaborative project which includes textile art in 16 art galleries this year. Also a panel discussion and several talks by artists in gallery and college venues.
Interweave Press, www.interweave.com, is the publisher of Handwoven Magazine, Spin Off Magazine and books on weaving.
Selvedge, www.selvedge.org is innovative and beautiful textile magazine with an international focus. You can view an issue online.
Weavershand, www.weavershand.com is a comprehensive web site for card weaving, Inkle weaving, kumihimo braiding and ply-splitting.
On the University of Arizona website there is an on-line digital archive of documents on weaving and related topics, www.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/weavedocs.html. This site contains publications in PDF format on weaving, woven textiles, looms, textile manufacture, spinning, dyeing, fibers, pattern design, lace, and basketry. If you've had trouble finding a publication in library or book store, check out this site.
Fiberscene, www.fiberscene.com, is an artist resource and fine art gallery specializing in San Francisco Bay Area Fiber Art with a goal toward education, exhibition and sales.
The American Tapestry Alliance, http://www.americantapestryalliance.org, was begun in 1968 by Hal Painter and Jim Brown. This organization has grown to host a Biannale, support education and study groups, maintain a slide registry of its members and maintain archives of the history of tapestry.
This is an interesting page of links on basketry put together in 2012 by a classroom in Maine, various basketry sites hosted on coupons.com.Cabrillo College, www.cabrillo.edu, has offered textile arts classes through the Art Department. Faculty: Bonnie Britton. 6500 Soquel Drive, Aptos, CA 95001. Contact Art Department: 831-479-6464. You can contact Bonnie Britton through the Cabrillo College website as well for more information about classes in textile arts. Bonnie is not teaching any classes during the Fall, 2012 semester.
Hartnell College, www.hartnell.edu, offers weaving classes. Fine Arts Department. Faculty: Sylvia Rios. 156 Homestead Ave., Salinas, CA 93901. Contact: Fine Arts Department, 831-755-6905.
Mendocino Art Center, www.mendocinoartcenter.org offers workshops in textile art as well as other art mediums. As of 2012 the Mendocino Art Center is winding down their textile program and offering fewer classes.
Coupeville Arts Center, www.coupevillearts.org offers numerous art workshops and classes including a broad offering of textile arts workshops on Whidby Island, WA.
The Swift Stitch, www.theswiftstitch.com sells knitting and weaving yarns, classes in kitting, felting, crocheting. 402 Ingalls St. #12, Santa Cruz, 831-427-9276. The Swift Stitch offers a 10% discount to Guild members.
The Golden Fleece, www.thegoldenfleece.com sells looms, weaving supplies and offers classes. 303 Potrero Street., Suite 29-101, Santa Cruz, CA 95060. Phone: 831 426-1425 or 800 528-5647.
Fibers.com, an online custom t-shirt business, maintains this excellent list of links titled Magical Fibers of Weaving http://www.fibers.com/main/magical-fibers-art-of-weaving. The list is categorized into links to pages describing the history of weaving, especially in America; a collection of tutorial pages on how to weave; a collection of pages for kids. If you are looking for resources for creating a textile or weaving project with children browse through these links recommended to us by the students in Mrs. Miller's class.