LAS ARAÑAS SPINNERS AND WEAVERS GUILD - Upcoming Events

NOVEMBER 18, 2025 -- LIZ GIPSON PRESENTS "Weave a Real Peace (WARP)

1/6/2026

Liz Gipson is a weaver, writer, and educator based in New Mexico with an educational background in community development and fiber arts. Liz started her career in nonprofits and moved into publishing in all the ways that content reaches weavers. Ten years ago she launched Yarnworker.com as a space to support rigid-heddle loom enthusiasts. She has written four books about rigid-heddle weaving and teaches at her local University and online at the Yarnworker School. Liz has been a member of WARP since 1996 and fully supports its goals to boost the signal for culturally-based, continuous textile traditions globally and locally and create connections among individuals and organizations who feel the same. She currently serves on the board and edits the WARP Quarterly Newsletter.

Weave a Real Peace (WARP) is a networking organization who serves a catalyst for improving the quality of life of textile artisans worldwide. They are an inclusive global network of individuals and organizations who value the social, cultural, historic, artistic, and economic importance of textile arts.

Liz will talk about the organization's history and its current activities. She will be joined by representatives of member organizations who can speak to the value of being part of the WARP network.

Pop-Up Sale October 19th

10/27/2025

OCTOBER 23, 24, 25, 2025 - Robyn Spady Program & Workshop

10/27/2025

PROGRAM October 23, 2025
ROBYN SPADY - WEAVE STRUCTURES

In this program, Robyn Spady shared a collection of weave structures that let you take advantage of fun and exciting yarns and to add new dimensions to your weaving.

Robyn Spady was introduced to handweaving at a young age and has been weaving for over 50 years. She completed HGA's Certificate of Excellence in Handweaving (COE-W) in 2004 with the specialized study Loom-controlled Stitched Double Cloth. Robyn is fascinated by the infinite possibilities of crossing threads and loves coming up with new ideas to create fabric and transform it into something new and exciting. Robyn is also the founder and editor of Heddlecraft® magazine.

ROBYN SPADY WORKSHOP
A Parallel Threading is the Weaver's Playground
oCTOBER 24 & 25, 2025

A Parallel Threading is the Weaver's Playground
A parallel threading can provide a weaver with a multitude of options and patterns – from echo weaves and corkscrew twills to turned taqueté and network-drafted twills. Then add weft variations in color and texture and a weaver will find themselves in a playground of possibilities.
Workshop participants will pre-warp their loom from a selection of threadings and during the workshop enter into a journey of discovery and exploration of how to transform a parallel threading into a myriad of patterns. The workshop is a combination of presentation/discussion, weaving, and hands-on exercises. Emphasis will be on understanding the design and drafting processes to empower workshop participants to create their own patterns.
(Note: Participants weave on their own looms, four-shafts minimum; eight-shafts highly recommended.)

August 23 - October 11:The Mycelium Forest Fiber Arts Show: Roots 2.0 The Wood Wide Web

10/14/2025

August 23-October 11 at the Albuquerque Open Space Visitors Center.
Background: In fall of 2024, the show Roots, the Unseen World was installed and displayed at the Albuquerque Open Space Visitors Center. This show is part 2 focusing on mycelium. (Mycelium is a network of thread-like fungal filaments that form a root-like structure. It's the vegetative body of a fungus, and it's found in soil and other substrates.)
The Mycelium Forest—the fiber component of the show—20-30 individual art pieces will be accepted to create the forest. They can be weaving, quilting, macramé, collage, assemblage, and any other creative representation of mycelium.

christine miller - metal as fiber - August 26, 2025

10/1/2025

July workshop - gasali adeyemo

8/14/2025

6/6/2025

May 27, tuesday morning meeting
Deb Robson
A fiber odessy: How the fleece and fiber sourcebook came to happen

The plan was for a short jaunt: two authors would spend nine months putting together a small, pretty guide to wools, with color pictures of sheep and locks of wool, along with summary information for quick reference.

Deb and Kinty

Ha! Here’s the inside story of the little project that grew, and of the four years I spent researching, writing about, and spinning every animal-grown fiber the team could reasonably get its hands on. Come learn how I tore my life apart to put a book together. If I’d known in advance what the project would involve, I would never have said yes (the task was impossible). In retrospect, I wouldn’t trade the experience for anything. It was amazing and wonderful.

Deborah Robson is a fiber generalist who specializes in spinning, knitting, and weaving, although she experiments with all aspects of textiles. She is the fiber author of The Fleece and Fiber Sourcebook and of The Field Guide to Fleece, in collaboration with livestock expert Carol Ekarius. For fourteen years she worked at Interweave Press, editing both books and Spin-Off magazine. She has a DVD set now available from Long Thread Media and a class on wool types available to premium members at Craftsy.com, has done several guest appearances on KDTV, and is writing focused fiber-topic monographs. Deb can be found on the internet at independentstitch.com.

May 3, 2025 - bOSQUE rEDONDO FIBER FAIR

5/1/2025

PROGAM FOR 4/24/2025 - ANA LISA HEDSTROMARASHI SHIBORI, A LANGUAGE OF STRIPES

4/12/2025

Tonight we are going to watch Ana Lisa Hedstrom's video on "Arashi Shibori: A Language of Stripes." Arashi shibori is a Japanese dye technique that results in diagonal stripes and intriguing textures. We are sorry to miss Kevin's talk and wish him well. Here is a teaser video:
ARASHI SHIBORI: A Language of Stripes • Ana Lisa Hedstrom

March 7, 8, 9, 2025 -- Kate Larson spinning workshop

3/1/2025

Kate Larson, editor of Spin Off and Farm & Fiber Knits led a 3-day spinning work- shop in March. Day 1, Friday, March 7—Working with Gradient Yarns. Day 2, Saturday, March 8—Color & Creativity for Spinners. Day 3, Sunday, March 9—Counting Sheep: Spinning for Breed Specific Yarn and Cloth—is at Fiber Arts On 4th.