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Black Sheep Handweavers Guild is an HGA-affiliated guild located in the San Francisco Bay Area. The purpose of the Black Sheep Handweavers Guild is to promote the exchange of ideas and knowledge in the textile arts, and to encourage efforts and activities in all fields of textiles.

Next Program

January 19, 2012:

Stephenie Gaustad

Will present a program on

Spinning for Weaving

cotton blossom courtesy of J. Ruane

Stephenie is an artist, designer, illustrator, weaver and experienced teacher. She has just produced a DVD on spinning cotton for Interweave Press.

Her many articles on the crafts have appeared in “Handwoven”, “Spin Off” and “Shuttle Spindle and Dyepot” magazines. Stephenie illustrated “Alden Amos’ Big Book of Handspinning”. She and her husband partner, Alden Amos, live in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada where they build textile equipment.

For more information please see  http://pweb.jps.net/~gaustad/index.html

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      Tien Chiu’s wedding dress, completed in April 2010.  For more information, see Tien’s wedding dress page on her website.