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Ann McDonough: a blog chronicling Ann’s fiber explorations
Barbara Shapiro: textile artist
The Loomy Bin: Gudrun Polak’s website on weaving, card weaving, and braiding.
Tien Chiu: a website and blog about Tien’s weaving, travels, and fiber art adventures
Ulla de Larios: the website for this noted fiber artist
A Mostly Fiber Chronicle: a blog about Ange Mirer’s attempts at making, mostly fiber related.
Ally Kraus: Website and blog about Ally’s textile experiments
Woven By Hand: Exhibits, Textiles, and Fiber Arts by the Black Sheep Handweavers Guild
Amazing Yarns: Andrea Niehius’s shop specializing in unique hand dyed, hand spun fibers and yarns from animals grown in CA, and teaching classes in knitting, crochet, weaving and felting.
Stefanie Selck: Website featuring Stefanie’s weaving portfolio
Are you a Black Sheep Member and want your website listed here? Just ask a Board Member!
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Amazing Yarns: Andrea Niehuis at Amazing Yarns specializes in unique hand dyed, hand spun fibers and yarns from animals grown in CA. We teach classes in knitting, crochet, weaving and felting.
2559 Woodland Place
Emerald Hills, CA 94062-3335
(650) 306-9218Barbara Shapiro: Barbara Shapiro offers instruction in Indigo dyeing, basketry, various other lectures on contemporary and ethnic textiles. She teaches at OLLI, San Francisco State Univ., Convergence, CNCH, guilds, etc. Please contact Barbara if your guild or conference would like to schedule a workshop or lecture.
Carolina Homespun: Morgaine Wilder
455 Lisbon Street
San Francisco, CA 94112
(415) 584-7786Gudrun Polak: Gudrun Polak provides seminars and workshops in card weaving. Please contact Gudrun to arrange instruction or seminar for your guild or conference.
Patt Sheldon: Patt Sheldon sells her handwoven and handmade jewelry at various venues around the Bay Area, through her website, and through her Etsy shop.
Fiber Curious Club: Ally Kraus sells tools and materials for weavers, sewists, and dyers as well as handmade textile art.
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Want to learn to weave, spin, felt or play with fiber in other ways? Here’s a list of places we’ve found in the area that offer classes, in alphabetical order. Please check online reviews before enrolling, as a listing on this page does not indicate an endorsement by the Black Sheep Handweavers Guild.
Heddle Craft also lists places to learn to weave
Do you offer fiber related classes and would like to be included on this page? Email info@blacksheepguild.org
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Sometimes, in the event of the death or illness of a friend or family member, you may be left with looms, spinning wheels, assorted other tools, and supplies such as yarn or fiber for spinning, and not know the best way to either sell or give it away in order to find someone who will use it.
If you are in the greater San Francisco Bay Area, Black Sheep Guild members can help you with this. If you are out of our area and not sure where to turn, we can try to connect you with a local guild.
We can help you assess and determine what to do with the larger items, like looms or spinning wheels, and give advice about what to do with smaller tools and supplies. Disposing of the “stash” of a friend or family member may seem daunting, but we will do our best to guide you through this process.
Please contact Betsy Blosser for more information ( bblosser at sfsu . edu )
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