Exchanges & Rentals - Handweavers Guild of America

Textile Exchanges & Rentals

These online programs are ideal for personal use or guild study groups. Open to all skill levels.

Textile Exchange Programs

sponsorships available - email HGA@WeaveSpinDye.org

Textile Exchange events are open to active HGA Individual, Family, Student and Professional Artists members. Not a member? Join today!

Handspun Skein Exchange

2022 Handspun Skein Exchange

sponsorship available - email HGA@WeaveSpinDye.org

Each spinner is invited to set their own goals for this exchange. Do you want to stretch yourself by learning a new spinning technique? Share your pride and joy "default" spinning skeins? Play with color? Try a new fiber? Have you recently purchased a new wheel and want to put it through its paces?! Let this exchange be your avenue for adventure (or not)! We hope you have some fun with this, and know you will produce beautiful yarn! Not a member? Join Today!

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Guidelines

This exchange will focus on protein/animal-based fibers. This could be wool, alpaca, mohair, angora, silk, or blends of any of these fibers.
Fibers can be dyed or natural.
Use 4 ounces of fiber.
Create a skein of plied yarn in a worsted weight, size 4 pursuant to Craft Yarn Council Guidelines, approximately 10 to 12 wraps per inch.
Your skein should be wet finished prior to being sent in for the exchange.
Securely label your skein by attaching an index card that contains the fiber content, total yardage, and your name.
In addition to the skein label, complete out the skein information sheet that can be downloaded here as a typeable PDF and email the digital copy to the exchange administrator.
Ship your skeins beginning February 1, 2022. Skeins must be received by the exchange administrator no later than February 28, 2022. Instructions for mailing will be emailed with your registration confirmation.
DO NOT MAIL TO HGA. Your skein will not be received.
Skeins will be exchanged and shipped by March 31, 2022.

Participant Requirements

Current HGA Student, Individual, Family or Professional Artist Membership. Not a member? Join today!
Participant fee of $10 to cover return priority-mail shipping (international participants will have their towels returned via first class mail) and administrative fees.

Community (Optional)

Participants will be invited by email to join the Facebook group for the 2022 exchange so you can share and communicate with each other.

Handwoven Scarf Exchange

2022 Handwoven Scarf Exchange

sponsorship available - email HGA@WeaveSpinDye.org

In order to accommodate the sun worshippers and the snow worshippers, you will submit a Summer Scarf and/or a Winter Scarf. If you submit a summer scarf, you will receive a summer scarf in exchange. If you submit a winter scarf, you will receive a winter scarf in exchange. If you want to submit one of each (1 summer scarf and 1 winter scarf), you will receive 1 summer scarf and 1 winter scarf in return. Not a member? Join Today!

Register to Participate - Opens April 2022

Guidelines

Weave a scarf at least 5" wide and 60" long not including fringe. These measurements are finished measurements, meaning you have washed and dried your scarf or finished it as appropriate for the yarns used.
Label your worksheet with your complete contact information and weaving information (draft for your weaving, along with thread samples and sources). Insert worksheet in a sheet protector to keep it flat and neat while shipping.
Clearly mark your worksheet with SUMMER or WINTER scarf. You will be the one who determines if your scarf is to be considered a summer or a winter scarf.
Submit your scarf along with your completed project worksheet.
If you submit both a summer and a winter scarf, please mark them clearly and wrap them separately. Enclosing each one in a large plastic bag is suggested. You can mail them in the same package.
Email a digital copy of your worksheet to the exchange administrator (to compile a complete listing of all scarves entered). Instructions will be emailed with your registration confirmation.
Ship your scarves beginning October 1, 2022. Scarves must be received by the exchange administrator no later than October 31, 2022. Instructions for mailing will be emailed with your registration confirmation.
DO NOT MAIL TO HGA. Your scarf will not be received.
Scarves will be exchanged and shipped by November 30, 2022.

Participant Requirements

Current HGA Student, Individual, Family or Professional Artist Membership. Not a member? Join today!
Participant fee of $15 to cover return priority-mail shipping (international participants will have their towels returned via first class mail) and administrative fees.

Community (Optional)

Participants will be invited by email to join the Facebook group for the 2022 exchange so you can share and communicate with each other.

Handwoven Towel Exchange

2023 Handwoven Kitchen Towel Exchange

sponsorship available - email HGA@WeaveSpinDye.org

HGA Individual, Family, Student and Professional Artists members are invited to participate in a weaving exchange and increase your handwoven towel stash. Participants will each send five towels and will receive five wonderful new towels. Not a member? Join today!

Register to Participate - Opens April 2023

Guidelines

Towels must be woven from cotton (unmercerized is preferable for kitchen towels), linen, hemp, bamboo or any combination of these fibers.
Towels should be hemmed (either hand-sewn or machine-sewn).
Wash your towels so that shrinkage has been addressed.
Finished (after washing and hemming) minimum measurements are to be 18” x 25”.
Weave five towels.
Include five (5) printed one-page information sheets with your name, contact information, and the draft for your weaving along with thread samples and sources. There should be one for each towel. Insert each information sheet in a sheet protector to keep it flat and neat while shipping.
Email a digital copy of your information sheet to the exchange administrator (to compile a complete listing of all towels entered). Instructions will be emailed with your registration confirmation.
Ship your towels beginning August 1, 2023. Towels must be received by the exchange administrator no later than August 31, 2023. Instructions for mailing will be emailed with your registration confirmation.
DO NOT MAIL TO HGA. Your towels will not be received.
Towels will be exchanged and shipped by September 30, 2023.

Participant Requirements

Current HGA Student, Individual, Family or Professional Artist Membership. Not a member? Join today!
Participant fee of $20 to cover return priority-mail shipping (international participants will have their towels returned via first class mail) and administrative fees.

Community (Optional)

Participants will be invited by email to join the Facebook group for the 2023 exchange so you can share and communicate with each other.
Participants will be invited to participate in a Zoom event during Spinning & Weaving Week (October 2 -8, 2023).

Rentals

Textile kits, including the Bateman Books, are available to HGA Members for a modest rental fee. These kits are ideal for personal use or for guild programs and may be borrowed for a maximum of 30 days. Reservations may be made online and rental and shipping fees must be paid at the time of your reservation.

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Textile Exchanges & Rentals

Textile Exchange Programs

Rentals

For more information about Textile Kits and Rentals call (678) 730-0010 or email Programs@WeaveSpinDye.org.