Spinning and Weaving Week
Studio Tours
We're thrilled to offer activities and events for seven days devoted to celebrating spinning and weaving. Our programming will educate, inspire, and support the fiber art community.
Recordings Available for S&WW 2024
Save the Date for S&WW 2025:
October 6-12, 2025
$0 - HGA Student Members
$30 - HGA Members
$55 - Non-Members
Studio Tours
In these one-hour virtual tours, artists will share how they utilize their space to create their craft and answer audience questions.
All sessions will be recorded and available on-demand to registered attendees for 90 days. Not a member? Join Today
Registration includes all 6 Studio Tours and all 7 days of Spinning & Weaving Week Activities except Art Sparks (Art Sparks coming in 2025)
$0 - HGA Student Members
$30 - HGA Members
$55 - Non-Members
2025 Studio Tours Schedule Coming Soon
2024 Studio Tours Schedule
Monday, October 7, 2024 from 4 - 5 PM ET: Laurie Carlson Steger
Generously sponsored by Complex Weavers and its Weavers Handshake virtual seminars
Laurie Carlson Steger
learned to weave at Fundy National Park Craft School in the early 1960’s, then studied at the Worcester Center for Crafts in the 1970’s and at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, earning a BFA in Textile Design and MFA in Artisanry/Fibers.She explored weaving with fiber optic materials and consulted in the field of smart textile applications in the 1990’s. She works on 4-Harness Millville counter balance loom, 8-Harness Baby Wolf, and the TC-2 jacquard loom. She taught Textile Science at Boston area colleges, and led workshops/lectures at weaving guilds, NEWS, Textile Society of America, Convergence®, and Complex Weavers. Her work is exhibited nationally can be seen locally at South End Wovens studio in the SoWa (south of Washington St.) artist district of Boston, MA. Laurie is the current Dean of the Weavers’ Guild of Boston.
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 from 4 - 5 PM ET: Debby Greenlaw
Debby Greenlaw
is the author of Krokbragd - How to Design & Weave and Krokbragd Patterns. After more than 40 years as a nurse and nurse practitioner, Debby retired to a 14½ acre farm in rural South Carolina. She shares Green Pastures Farm with a cadre of dairy goats, chickens, a mini donkey, a barn cat, and a playful puppy, all of whom bring her immense joy. As part of the farm's restoration, Debby's husband, Pete, built a studio where she loves to weave, spin, and knit. In this studio, she also presents online programs and workshops for fellow fiber enthusiasts. Debby also enjoys working in her dye studio housed in one of the barns. On her blog, Flora & Fiber, Debby shares the skills she has learned, farm life adventures she has experienced, and insights she has gleaned. When she is not writing, you can find her doing something creative with fiber in between farm chores and gardening.
Thursday, October 10, 2024 from 4 - 5 PM ET: Mary Zicafoose
Mary Zicafoose
’s fiber journey began with ikat cloth she received as a gift as a child. Her undergraduate degree was from St Mary’s College and graduate work was School of the Art Institute of Chicago and University of Nebraska. In pursuing a more painterly approach to fiber, she was drawn to ikat technique which took her on her 30 year journey. She is the co-director emeritus of the American Tapestry Alliance. She has recently published a book Ikat: The Essential Guide to Weaving Resist-Dyed Cloth.
Friday, October 11, 2024 from 4 - 5 PM ET: Rebecca Hebert
Rebecca Hebert
enjoyed 32 years as a fundraising professional for a number of nonprofit organizations from human services to universities in Pittsburgh, PA. After retirement, she picked up knitting again, but quickly found her joy in weaving. She has studied with Tom Knisley at Red Stone Glen and Becky Ashenden at Vavstuga. Wanting to share the joy, Rebecca began teaching at the Pittsburgh Center for Arts and Media, where she helped expand the current weaving program by offering rigid heddle and inkle weaving classes. Her 1,000 square foot studio is home to 12 floor looms and countless rigid heddles and inkle looms for her classes. She blogs about her weaving journey and showcases the pieces she has woven on the First Child Designs website.
Saturday, October 12, 2024 from 4 - 5 PM ET: Rowland and Chinami Ricketts
Generously sponsored by Dewey and JJ Watt McCormick
Rowland Ricketts
utilizes natural dyes and historical processes to create contemporary textiles that span art and design. Trained in indigo farming and dyeing in Japan, Rowland received his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art and is a Professor in Indiana University’s Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design. A recipient of a United States Artists Fellowship, his work has been exhibited at the Textile Museum in Washington, DC; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery; and the Seattle Art Museum.
Chinami Ricketts
is a weaver who crafts traditional narrow-width yardage for kimono and obi using historical kasuri (ikat) techniques. After studying indigo dyeing in her native Tokushima, the center of indigo cultivation and processing in Japan, Chinami pursued an apprenticeship with Yumie Aoto, where she learned the kasuri and weaving techniques that form the foundation of her work today.
Rowland and Chinami work together to grow and process the indigo that they use in their individual and collaborative work using historical Japanese techniques that are all natural and environmentally sustainable.
Sunday, October 13, 2024 from 4 - 5 PM ET: Travis Meinolf
Travis Meinolf
(they/them, born 1978) is a weaver who also teaches and distributes weaving tools, aiming to make the simple and productive process accessible to those who find it satisfying. To that end, they have established a small weaving studio in San Anselmo equipped with floor looms and back strap looms. In addition, they conduct public workshops at libraries and museums, as well as community classes at the Richmond Art Center. Travis has woven pieces for prominent exhibitions such as the Whitney Biennial and for the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, along with other arts institutions and numerous private collections.Their current work concerns basic themes of shelter/protection using colorful abstraction/figuration and living in the gray areas between sculpture, painting and design. They live in Lagunitas with Iris and their son Louie. They hold a BA in Industrial Arts from San Francisco State University and an MFA in Textiles/Social Practices from California College of the Arts.
Please continue to check back as we update the schedule. Spinning & Weaving Week is supported by generous contributions to HGA's Fiber Trust and the donation of our presenters' time, energy and expertise. HGA is an exempt organization as described in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code; EIN #06-08661organization. In honor of this event, please consider a donation.
Sponsorship Opportunities
The Handweavers Guild of America, Inc.’s (HGA) Spinning & Weaving Week celebration is a 7-day digital extravaganza showcasing the fiber arts with vendor demonstrations and product talks, virtual studio tours, speakers, panels, and a fun fashion show. Each year HGA’s Spinning & Weaving Week Celebration includes more than 40 hours of virtual programming over 7 days with more than 650 fiber enthusiasts participating either in real-time or by viewing recordings. The event will be presented virtually through Cvent with the ability to host an unlimited number of attendees. All sessions are recorded and available to be viewed at the convenience of registered attendees for up to 90 days. This event brings together fiber enthusiasts from across the world and provides opportunities to connect online and in the days following.
We understand that the dollars you spend need to bring the maximum benefit to your company. Sponsors are offered exclusive benefits and services based on their level of contribution. These packages are carefully structured at each level to provide the maximum visibility and the greatest mutual benefit but can be tailored to meet your organization’s philanthropic or marketing objectives. For more information, please call (470) 893-0556 or email HGA@WeaveSpinDye.org.
All Spinning & Weaving Week Sponsors will receive the following recognition in addition to the items listed in the packages:
- Name recognition on HGA’s webpage as Sponsor and logo and link to your website
- Logo and name recognition in approximately *8,000 copies of Shuttle Spindle & Dyepot magazine
- E-Blast sent to HGA’s mailing list of more than 11,000 promoting your sponsorship
- Post recognizing your sponsorship on HGA’s Facebook page (11,000+ followers)
- Post recognizing your sponsorship on HGA’s Instagram account (5,700+ followers)
- Tax-deductible receipt letter for your donation less goods & services received
- Continued publicity for 90 days after the week is over through recorded viewing of each event
