HandwovenbyElla

02/06/2026

Enter your artwork! Choose from Four Fiberart Juried Open Calls for Convergence 2026. We invite anyone working with fiber or using traditional fiber art techniques to enter our exhibitions.

Deadline for entry: April 20, 2026

EXHIBITS:
Krewe of Threads: Let the Good Times Roll, Wearable Art Exhibit
Lagniappe: The Art of Everyday Beauty, Functional Art Exhibit
Creative Spirits of the River, Yardage Exhibit
Threaded Revelry: Throw Me Something, Mixed Media Exhibit

AWARDS:
- Cash prizes provided by HGA include: $500 First, $250 Second, $100 Third
- Winning works will be published in future edition of Shuttle Spindle & Dyepot magazine
- Winning works will be featured on HGA's Instagram and Facebook
- All selected works will be featured in an online exhibit photo album
- Additional Honors and/or cash prizes may be sponsored by individuals or groups

ENTRY FEES (per piece)
$0 - Students (with HGA Student membership or proof of current enrollment)
$18 - HGA Members
$25 - Non-HGA Members

Get all the details, including a full prospectus for each exhibit at https://weavespindye.org/calls-for-entry/

To learn more about HGA memberships and becoming a member, visit https://weavespindye.org/membership-2/

09/06/2025

Today's featured virtual workshop is Chelsea Fremming from Weaving A Tale --Her session on Intro to Color Blankets is on Monday, October 6 at 11:00AM ET. $20 for HGA Members & $40 for Non-members. Spinning & Weaving Week registration is required ($30-$60).

Spinning and Weaving Week - seven straight days celebrating all things spinning and weaving! Learn more about Spinning & Weaving Week and register for this virtual conference at https://weavespindye.org/spinning-and-weaving-week-2/

06/17/2023

🧶 Kathrin Weber joins us on Textiles & Tea this Tuesday, June 20, at 4 p.m. ET. Generously sponsored by Georgia Fans of Blazing Shuttles. Watch on Facebook or Zoom. Register to join on Zoom here https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_An_XGTxIS7mfg3DT-yJANA

About Kathrin Weber:
Kathrin Weber has been dyeing and weaving professionally since 1980. For the first 30+ years, she focused on creating and selling her own finished woven products. Since then, she has focused on teaching techniques developed over the years and on dyeing yarn for other fiber artists. When teaching weaving, Kathrin’s goals are to give students alternative methods, techniques, and concepts to approach design and weaving. Her weaving class is titled Controlling Creative Chaos. Most who have spent time in workshops with Kathrin will agree that that is descriptive of the class energy. Kathrin’s goal for dyers is to learn to dye intuitively, much like playing music by ear, instead of relying on recipes for color. Though she encourages both sets of skills, if one can dye by eye, that person is never at a loss for color and not at the mercy of having a recipe at hand.
www.blazingshuttles.com

01/27/2020

Even Coverlets Get the Blues will be on exhibit from February 1, through May 15, 2020, at the Kentucky Museum at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
https://www.wku.edu/kentuckymuseum/exhibits/exhibits.php

12/13/2019

The 2,400-year-old Egyptian rug originally carried a mummified human foot.

11/27/2019

In this historical travelogue, Esther Rutter follows a tradition established by the first historian of the fisherman’s Guernsey, Gladys Thompson. In Patterns for Guernseys, Jerseys & Arans (1955), the otherwise patrician Thompson spent an afternoon working as a toilet attendant in Filey on the Nor...

09/06/2019

08/20/2019

Featuring 98 Geometric and Figured and Fancy Coverletsfrom Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York,Ohio, Illinois and Indiana with special section highlighting Bedford, Blair and Somerset Countiesin Pennsylvania

08/15/2019

The Loom is in the house!

07/15/2019

Machine guns, grenades, and tanks replace flowers, birds, and other traditional decoration in “War Rugs” by women caught in an international conflict.