September 27, 2025

Denise Kovnat

Echo Threadings: The Warp that Keeps on Giving

How can you weave Echo, Jin, Shadow Weave, Rep, and double weave on just one warp, with just one threading? With an extended-parallel threading, that's how -- simply by varying the tieup, treadling, and weft yarns and, in the case of Rep and double weave, by re-sleying as well. This lecture traces, which looks at techniques for intermediate to advanced weavers, sheds light on the wide-ranging possibilities of Echo threadings, as discussed by Marian Stubenitsky in her groundbreaking book, Weaving with Echo and Iris.

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October 25, 2025

Ruby Leslie

Lost in Translation ... Why Color Theories  Don’t Guarantee Good Cloth

Weavers seduced by gorgeous colored yarns often fail to use them successfully. The usual approach to this problem is to learn color theory, which is a huge and daunting undertaking. Learning terminology is NOT the equivalent of learning to use color well. What is needed is a method to translate color theory, terminology and yarn wrappings into actual weaving. You don’t need to master color theory to use color masterfully. Ruby will share her extensive collection of samples for a production line of scarves, which document her evolving approach to color design.

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December 6, 2025 

Holiday Craft Party 

Details to be announced.

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January 31, 2026

Bhakti Ziek

Career Highlights

Bhakti Ziek, a former college professor of weaving, describes her work as moving from backstrap weaving technology to contemporary digital jacquard processes. As co-author of The Woven Pixel: Designing for Jacquard and Dobby Looms Using Photoshop (written with Alice Schlein) she has forged the path that many people follow when designing for jacquard and dobby looms today.

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February 28, 2026

Robbie LeFleur

Open Warp Transparency Weaving

in the Style of Frida Hansen

In 2019 Robbie LaFleur was a fellow with the American Scandinavian Foundation and traveled to Stavanger, Norway to research the materials and the wool open-warp transparent tapestry technique of Frida Hansen (1855-1931). She began teaching the technique in 2023, and The Transparent Tapestries of Frida Hansen and her Followers: Art Nouveau Expression in Wool will be published by Schiffer, available in late 2025. 

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March 28, 2026

Sole Salvo

Virginia West Was my Grandmother

Virginia West was a well-known fiber artist, author, instructor and activist who died in 2021. She studied at the Philadelphia College of Textiles and the Maryland Institute of Art where she also taught for 13 years. Of the five books she has written on weaving, many of us are familiar with Finishing Touches for the Handweaver and the Virginia West Swatch Book. Her stunning textile designs are a source of inspiration and a luxurious visual and tactile treat. Her granddaughter, Sole Salvo, will talk about the legacy of her work.

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April 25, 2026

Andrea Lui

Knitting and Weaving Physical Therapist:

Ergonomics for Healthy Weaving

Doctor of Physical Therapy, orthopedic specialist, personal trainer. Always knitting, spinning, weaving, crocheting. Andrea will guide us through chair exercises for neck, shoulders, hands, and all the other parts of our body that takes a beating while indulging in our fiber crafts.

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May 30, 20256 

Anthony DiRenzo

Natural Dye Studies in Oaxaca, Mexico

Anthony DiRenzo is a spinner and weaver, but loves dyeing fiber. “Although you can control for things like water pH and weights of everything, it’s still a little bit of a gamble of what’s going to come out of that pot. I like that I’ve released that control of what exact color I’m going to get and it’s sort of like the beauty of just having to work with what you have by the end of the dye process.”