Highland Guild of Weavers Spinners & Dyers

Category: member’s projects

  • WIG Weaving Project

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    Karen Buchanan
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    Weavers Interest Group Project Any guild interest group weavers are invited to make a small woven piece of a chosen weave structure. This is also open to all Guild members who may be interested in contributing, as not all have chosen to join in the Weaving Interest Group. The pieces will be used as a…

  • Weaving Challenge Jan 2023

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    Stephanie Hoyle
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    Following the example of the spinning group we are setting a weaving related challenge for January. This is not restricted to those who join in the monthly zoom. It’s open to everyone to join in and have fun! You won’t need to get any fancy equipment, in fact (and I’ve just thought of this!) part…

  • Art Yarn

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    Stephanie Hoyle
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    This is Sue Varley’s idea: spin a yarn inspired by a piece or art work. Sue has started us off with a yarn inspired by Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night.

  • Colours of Highland

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    Stephanie Hoyle
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    To start off this gallery Alison M has sent a picture of a tapestry weaving inspired by late sun on the hills. She used a variety of yarns, including Harris yarns and wool left over from the Scottish tapestry panel she was involved in stitching. She sent two pictures and I’m including both as I’m…

  • Sea and Shore

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    Stephanie Hoyle
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    As it is difficult to meet up at the moment, we have decided to celebrate our crafts in a couple of on-line exhibitions. This is the first and will run to mid October. I will be adding pictures as they are sent in. To start off we have my Krokbragd weavings, following on from the…

  • Eco dyeing project

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    Stephanie Hoyle
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    Michelle Stirling has been experimenting with eco dyeing for some time now, and has produced some very interesting fabrics and art work (see pictures below). [envira-gallery id=”3575″] She is involved in a project on Facebook called “earth signature bundle”, and invites anyone who wishes to join in. Send your results, or questions, to Michelle via…

  • Feb 2019 Open Day and Challenge

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    Stephanie Hoyle
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    Another good day, with 30 plus people attending, and a shared lunch. Most people were spinning; Sheila had brought along a book charka to spin cotton. Click on the pictures to see more detail. [envira-gallery id=”3196″] The focus of the day though was the Guild challenge. This started at the September meeting, when those participating…

  • Aileen’s rug

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    Stephanie Hoyle
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    Aileen wove this on a 24 inch (60 cm) rigid heddle loom, stitched lengths together to get the width she needed, and backed it with hessian. The yarn is rug wool from Kincraig at Brora. As Aileen says, it just shows what can be achieved on the simplest small loom.

  • New weaving

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    Alison Roddham
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    Aileen sent this a wee while back… Sorry for the delay in posting it up Aileen. She writes “The length of cloth is ten foot long, wool. The weft is hand spun and hand dyed (not by me) all done on a 7.5 dent. I’m afraid it took ages!”

  • A Woven Sun-set

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    Alison Roddham
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    Inspired by an evening sky of dark purple clouds caught with the dying embers of the sun over the Cromarty firth, I decided to dye, spin and weave a new fabric.  Scarf size is a nice sized project… long enough to be useful but not taking an age to work up.  As I’m spinning my…

  • Wild dyes and weaving

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    Alison Roddham
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    Michelle is finally back on t’internet and has pulled herself away from doing “hubble bubble” in the garden to send us a lovely shot of her newly dyed fibre. Who would have thought that cow parsley could be so vibrant (after an post dyeing alum modification). Michelle has also sent a picture of her Dealgan,…

  • Spun, Woven & Knitted

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    Alison Roddham
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    Here are Sarah Grant and Sue Varley displaying their creations. Sarah’s jacket is spun and woven and has extensions in matching felt. Sue’s jacket is spun from tops and knitted. Both are stunning!

  • Spring Scarf

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    Alison Roddham
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    Spring has sprung and, like the urge to eat fresh salads, I just had to do something lighter than my normal “dark and interesting” aubergine and plum colours.  I bought a kilo of creamy white cotton chenille from ebay with the thought of being able to dye it but it’s so soft and velvety just…

  • Lilac Houndstooth

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    Alison Roddham
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    Aileen writes: “This weave is 18 inches wide and 3 yards long.  Done on my RH loom with a 7.5 dent reed and fulled to a nice skirt weight.  The pale lilac is Rennies Shetland and the purple is Merino.  It took a long time, and there is a mistake!”

  • Draped in “Prayer Flags”

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    Alison Roddham
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    Catherine has been putting her time spent ill to very good use ! “This is my project since the dark days of January. A 5 ” wide warp, using a threading for my four shafts that I saw Theo Wright using for his scarves.  He’s a professional weaver who is also a lover of data…