This posting is compiled from an email via Patricia M. – Huge farm day event at Tattersall Farm in Haverhill, MA (about 45 min North of Waltham) on 9/16. There will be a number of local farms and dozens of crafters including…
The library is now temporarily housed at my house. Hopefully when we find a permanent space for guild meetings, our library will also find its permanent home. For the meanwhile, it seems happy here. I have just gone through all…
Schacht 36″ 4 shaft low castle loom. Number 315, 1979. When Barry Schacht visited A Loom with a View recently, he sat down at this loom and said “Hello old friend!”. Rescued and lovingly restored by yours truly. New heddles,…
For the foreseeable future I will have the guild library in my house, therefore I am taking over for Betsy as one of the “Keepers of the Written Word”. I want to reinstitute Joan B’s wonderful monthly book review –…
I would like to sincerely thank every single guild member for growing NOBO Handweavers into a guild that is truly beyond what Betsy and I imagined that first meeting in April 2008. We have gone from this (a section…
Melissa, Kirsten, and I are hoping there just might be a guild member who has one of those great, old-fashioned galvanized washtubs that we could borrow. We are working on quite the collaboration and need to photo document the washing…
Hear ye, hear ye, the following court positions for NOBO Handweavers Guild 2012/2013 have been filled – Ladies NOBO (Co-presidency) Exchequer (treasurer) Scribes (minute-takers) In-house Royal Scribe (webmaster) Keepers of the Written Word (librarians/archivists) Shepherdesses/Shepherds (membership) – 1 out of…