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Here's a sampling of the Samples that were available at Conference 2006 from the Special Sample Service.

Spider Wranglers Weave One-Of-A-Kind Tapestry on NPR

There's a new weaving website. Weavolution This is how they are describing themselves. "We are a social network for handweavers, where people can share projects, see what others are doing, or discuss weaving-related matters (or just hang out) in our discussion forums."

Barak Obama's mother's collection of Batiks are now at the Textile Museum in DC.

Visit the Surface Design website

The Textile Museum of Canada

Have you listened to the wonderful podcasts from WeaveCast ? Syne Mitchell has a great variety of episodes by, for and about weavers and weaving.

Mai Shields recommends the following web site:
Members might be interested in looking at it -- artists from China, Cameroon, Mexico, Guatemala, Canada and Poland.

Interesting Web Sites
This is a collection of web sites, not necessarily fiber related, but provocative, artistic and very interesting.

  • Science meets craft or how to crochet a theoretical space -- The NPR story on a physicist who used crochet to illustrate a concept.
  • Coming and Going or the Mobius Conundrum-- Susie Hodges is knitting mobius scarves, now see mobius bottles
  • Continue on to see how an origami artist creates a Klein bottle out of paper, to say nothing of fantastic animals, flowers, people and more!
  • And finally check out some fiber mobius scarves and bags and cat beds.

    The Loomy Bin provides design tools and patterns over the internet. Visit them here

    Visit Silk Moon Textile Arts in Sebastopol

    Visit Treenway Silks

    Magdalene Aulik Textiles at Textura Trading Company

    The Anne Blinks Textile Study Collection is on line!

    Straw-into-Gold and Crystal Palace Yarns may not have a store front anymore but they have a mail order business based in Richmond, CA

    Visit SCRAP (Scroungers' Center for Re-Usable Art Parts)a nonprofit conduit in San Francisco for unwanted materials. SCRAP collects materials from businesses and individuals that would other wise be thrown away, and distributes them to art and educational groups. Located at 801 Toland, San Francisco - ph 415 647 1746

    In Oakland there's: East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse, 4695 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, CA 94609- ph 510 547 6470 - Hours: 11am-6pm seven days a week

    Custom Handweavers new address: 2267 Old Middlefield Way, Mountain View, CA 94043, phone: 650-967-0831

    Visit Peggy Osterkamp for her "Tip of the Month".

    Visit Janice Sullivan

    Pacific Northwest Art School, formerly Coupeville Arts Center -- 360-678-3396 or 866-678-3396 360-678-3396,

    Visit Pacific Textile Arts in Fort Bragg, CA

    Here's a local group of Fiber Artists

    Here's an association of guilds in Southern California the Association of Southern California Handweavers

    Visit Bonnie Inouye

    Interweave Press the publishers of Handwoven Magazine and other fiber related publications.

    Look at Handweaving.net for a great collection of weaving drafts. More are always being added.

    American Tapestry Alliance

    TRAMA textiles a 100% worker owned weaving cooperative in Guatemala

    There are many notable weavers pages currently on-line and more being created all the time. I'm listing a few here, but rather than duplicate their links I'd like to suggest you visit them:

    Ruth Stowe's

    Black Sheep Hand Weavers Guild

    A blog on batiks

    There's always the Weaving List..... where there's non-stop, lively discussions....most of the time about weaving, spinning, and creativity with folks from all over the world.
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    For Sale:
    LOUET HOLLANDIA LOOM with 130 cm. - 52" weaving width. Made with lacquer coated ash. Features include:
    4-shaft modern counter march action (with brand new unassembled 8-shaft kit), floating breast beam, rear hinged treadles, - easy tie-up, Swedish Texsolv heddles, built-in shelf. Accessories include: - adjustable height bench, - 3 reeds (8,10 & 12 dent), raddle, lease and warp sticks
    Asking price is $2,000.00, Current equivalent loom (the Louet Delta) is $5,952 retail. For more information and photos e-mail me at: tiaouti-AT-yahoo-dot-com (3/28/10)

    Complete weaving studio:
    Cherry wood 4 harness loom. Weaves 45’. Hand made adjustable cherry wood bench with drawers. All necessary equipment included:
    Electric bobbin winder, over 20 wood shuttles, umbrella swift, ball winder, extra reeds, Ashford spinning wheel, carders, several sacks of yarn, huge library of weaving books, and MUCH MORE!
    A complete studio set up. Everything in good condition. Sell all for $3,000 carla-AT-carlalevy-dot-org -- 760­268-0560 (3/28/10)


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