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A festive fun morning at our recent Guild Meeting with a threaded Christmas Card Workshop lead by Robby. What a lot of lovely lot of cards thank you Robby!

Some of our Weavers have recently challenged themselves to learn the art of Double Weave. Working alongside each other in a weave along exercise to produce a double weave sampler, they have now finished warping their looms and have begun weaving. Double weave is a textile technique that involves weaving two separate layers of fabric simultaneously on the same loom. This method allows for creating a fabric with two independent layers that can remain separate, be joined on one

Congratulations to Guild Member Sam, on recently achieving a Level Three Certificate in Hand Spinning. Sam brought in her certificate and all the coursework she had completed to show us today. A lot of work and skill needed to gain this. Well done Sam we are all very proud of your achievement.

We were delighted to welcome pupils from Dosbarth 4 at Llangynidyr Community Primary School to a Guild meeting recently. They enjoyed seeing demonstrations of Spinning and Weaving. It was lovely to see their enthusiasm and they asked lots of great questions. We are now working with the school to arrange future activities.

Our "Wonder of Silk" day continued with a fantastic hands on, silk spinning workshop lead by Sue Hiley Harris. Sue demonstrated very ably, different techniques for spinning with silk tops, silk caps and hankies and silk noils. Our spinners and visiting spinners from neighbouring Gwent and Brecknock Guilds had a lot of fun trying their hand with these. We also enjoyed spending some of our pennies on the lovely range of silk fibres that Sue had brought along for us to try. Than

What a great day we had recently, in the company of talented Spinner, Weaver, Artist and Sculptor Sue Hiley Harris, who treated us to a wonderful talk in the morning on Silk and the Silkworm. Sue who lives near Brecon, has kept silk worms herself and gave us an overview of the lifecycle of the silkworm and the production of silk thread from their cocoons. Sue covered the different types of silk moth and types of cultivated and wild silk. She illustrated her talk with some det

Some of our Members have responded to this call out and have been busy knitting these adorable little hats for premature newborn babies. We thought we'd share the pattern and details of where to send them in case anyone else would like to take part and help.

We recently had a v busy and enjoyable day in Guild with our AGM, followed by a delicious bring and share lunch. After lunch we were treated to an excellent talk on "Finishing" woven fabrics by Guild Member, Sally based on the work of Laura Fry. Sally had taken a lot of trouble to weave samples of cloth using different fibres ( plant and animal based) and showed them in their unfinished, semi finished and fully finished states and explained the process she had applied to each

One of our members Roz, has been working recently on an innovative, sculptural weaving project using twigs and branches as naturally...

Congratulations to all those completing our recent "Introduction to Spinning Course", pictured here with our fantastic tutors Sarah and...

Great fun and good progress made by participants on our recent "Supported Spindle" workshop lead by Samantha Mcdonald-Elliott. Thank you...

What a fabulous, fun day we had with our Guild "Peg Loom Day ". Well done everyone for getting involved so enthusiastically with the...

The biennial National Exhibition of Spinning Weaving and Dyeing by the Association of Guilds of Weaving Spinning and Dyeing was held at...

Following the talk on the Llangorse Textile find, the theme of the day continued after lunch with a session on braid weaving, also lead...

Guild members were treated to a wonderful talk on The Llangorse Lake textile finds, by Louise Mumford, Head Conservator from The National...

The Guild have several lovely old spinning wheels looking for a new home. All available for a donation to the Guild. Pictured in order of...

Guild Members were very sad to hear at our meeting this week, that Judith, one of the founder members of our Guild will no longer be...

Since November a group of our Spinners have been enjoying participating in an ongoing, monthly spinalong project utilising the book "51...

One of the nicest things to have out on display at long last, at our Guild Friendship Day 2024 on 21st March, was the outcome of a...

What a really wonderful and special "Friendship Day" we've had, with members of the public dropping in and a lovely crowd travelling to...