Coming Events
SCTAG June Meeting
Please bring what ever you have been working on to share with us. Several members intend to sell their handmade fabric art and so bring your cash and your friends. 10% of all sales will go to support our guild.
Please note new location!
SCTAG September Meeting
Topic: County Fair Wrap Up and Show & Tell
Members will share their Fair experience and awards will be announced.
This will also be your chance to show any work you have completed this Summer, or even over the past year. With no other program, there will be time to tell us the back story of your work.
SCTAG October Meeting
Topic: My history of a 30-year voyage of discovery in making art quilts
Speaker: Alice Beasley
More information coming soon.
SCTAG November Meeting
Topic: Basketeers Presentation & Members Sale
More information coming soon.
SCTAG December Meeting
Topic: Annual Holiday Celebration and Potluck
More information coming soon.
SCTAG January Meeting
Topic: 70th Anniversary Celebration & Panel Discussion
More information coming soon.
SCTAG May Meeting
Topic: Medieval Distaff Spinning
Learn about the importance of the distaff during the Medieval period and how this historical European style of spinning differs from the drop spindling that most modern spinners are familiar with.
Speaker: Siobhan Harlakenden
Siobhan says, "I am a fiber artist and heritage craft enthusiast who does a little bit of everything but my main focus anything relating to wool. As someone who was always called an old soul, it seems only fitting that heritage crafts seem to have touched something deep inside me that harkens back to previous lives that are now being expressed again through my modern day hands. It brings me great joy to share my love of sheep and history with current generations and having a role to play in keeping these crafts alive."
SCTAG May Workshop
Topic: Hands on Medieval Distaff Spinning
Speaker: Siobhan Harlakenden
Learn about the importance of the distaff during the Medieval period and how this historical European style of spinning differs from the drop spindling that most modern spinners are familiar with.
Workshop registration will open February 15, 2025.
Past Events
SCTAG May Workshop
Topic: Natural Dye and Botanical Printing
Speaker: Mayumi Fujio
Website: https://www.mayumix.com
Learn to create beautiful prints using fresh leaves, flowers and minerals. Mayuymi will teach us how to transfer these natural colors and shapes from plants onto silk fiber. You will have a lovely scarf to take home.
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SCTAG May Meeting
Speaker: Mayumi Fujio
Mayumi is an award winning fiber artist using natural dye and mushroom dye with the technique called botanical printing which uses real leaves to transfer colors and shapes from plants onto natural fibers. She extracts dye from nature and uses it for her work on silk, wool and other natural fibers. Mayumi will present a brief history of natural dye, the types of plants (and some insects!) to dye and process of Botanical printing.
SCTAG April Meeting
Speaker: Mary NapierMary will be discussing and demonstrating the weaving techniques that were used in the twofaced rug of "Wildflowers Return After The Fire," a Navajo-style Two-Faced Weaving.
SCTAG March Workshop
Topic: Becoming a Wedgie!
In this one and a half day workshop, you will learn the basic structure of wedge weave, we’ll begin it together, and then just have fun with it. Beginning weavers welcome. If you love yarn and can weave over and under warps, you can do it. A simple design will be mapped out for you so you can jump right in.
This workshop continues on the following day, March 14, from 10:00am to 5:00pm at the same location.
Instructor: Janette Gross
Website: https://www.smugmug.com/gallery/n-XN4pMM/i-BkcXqmt/A
Janette Gross has been studying, weaving and exhibiting her wedge weave tapestries for 17 years. She is one of two Rydell Visual Arts Fellows for 2023 and the first weaver/tapestry artist to be selected in the fellowship’s 17 year history. Janette will bring samples of her own work, from her very first piece to the current ones, and encourages everyone to bring their own wedge weave work or purchased examples to share.
Cost: $50.00 and includes materials.
SCTAG March Meeting
Topic: Weaving on the Wedge: A Personal Journey
Speaker: Janette Gross
Janette will take us on a journey, through photos of early Navajo wedge weaves, SCTAG member, Martha Stanley’s contribution to the technique, and contemporary wedge weaves including recent work from the Diné (Navajo) community. She will share her personal vision and how she has drawn from this ancient technique to create her own contemporary works. With intricate planning, and careful craftsmanship she tells us a woven story of her fascinating journey into the wedge.
Janette Gross has been studying, weaving and exhibiting her wedge weave tapestries for 17 years. She is one of two Rydell Visual Arts Fellows for 2023 and the first weaver/tapestry artist to be selected in the fellowship’s 17 year history. Janette will bring samples of her own work, from her very first piece to the current ones, and encourages everyone to bring their own wedge weave work or purchased examples to share.
SCTAG February Meeting
Nålbinding - Bruce Fihe
Pin Looms - Pat LaPointe
Card Woven Edge Demo - Janette Gross and Peg McCollough
SCTAG January Meeting
Topic: Bojagi (Korean Wrapping Cloths)
Speaker: Youngmin Lee
Website: www.youngminlee.com
Instagram: www.instagram.com/youngminlee_bojagi/
Youtube: https://www.instagram.com/youngminlee_bojagi/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/youngmin.lee.357
Youngmin Lee is a textile artist uses bojagi tradition and techniques to create her work. Her interest in textiles led her to study Clothing and Textile in college and received an MFA in Fashion Design in South Korea. She has researched bojagi making and techniques and endeavor to apply her findings to both in traditional and contemporary art. After she moved to California in 1996, she actively works on preserving the bojagi tradition that embodies the philosophy of recycling and up-cycling, as the works are made from pieces of fabric leftover from other projects.
Bojagi (Korean Wrapping Cloths) are pieced together from small scraps of cloth. It is the most unique form of Korean textile art.
SCTAG January Workshop
Topic: Ssamsol Jogakbo
Jogakbo, patchwork bojagi, was made with remnants of fabrics from leftover cloths in the past.
When Korean women make bojagi, the act of hand stitching is considered an act of wishing happiness and well-being to the recipients, users, or makers themselves.
Instructor: Youngmin Lee
Youngmin Lee is a textile artist who uses bojagi tradition and techniques to create her work. Her interest in textiles led her to study Clothing and Textile in college and she received an MFA in Fashion Design in South Korea. She has researched bojagi making and techniques, and endeavors to apply her findings to both in traditional and contemporary art. After she moved to California in 1996, she has actively worked on preserving the bojagi tradition that embodies the philosophy of recycling and up-cycling, as the works are made from pieces of fabric left over from other projects.
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SCTAG December Meeting
Annual Holiday PartyLocation: Suzanne McLean's, (see Members Only page for address)
Starting at 10:00AM
Please bring a dish to share, be it cookies or other finger food of your choice. The coffee pot and hot water pot will be on with cups and utensils available.
SCTAG November Meeting
Speaker: Cathleen KatteThis is a Zoom meeting, the link will be sent about a week before the meeting.
We all take that purse that we carry with us as standard equipment, some ornate, others very utilitarian. I’m sure we all spent a bit more than we should have on that special bag we just had to have. Did you ever wonder about the history of “the bag”? What did ladies and men (yes), use to carry their necessities with them when they were away from home? You will find out the answers and the fascinating history of the evolution of the handbag as we know it today.
SCTAG October Meeting
Topic: Homemade vs. Handmade
Speaker: Sharlet Elms
What details make the difference between a homemade garment or one that walks down the fashion runways? Find out how you can improve your final project.
Basket Making Workshop #2
Location: The Somerville patio in Felton
In this 2-day workshop the attendee will focus on the Cherokee wheel market basket or the round reed bread basket. Attendees may also work on loom baskets.
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