Santa Cruz Textile Arts Guild

Resources

Rewards Programs

Shop at the  Woolery using this link!!! Our Guild receives a percentage of   whatever you spend!!!

Shop at Halcyon Yarn, too, and SCTAG will earn back annually 5% of purchases made there by members! Please be sure to state your SCTAG guild affiliation in the order comments online, or tell the sales associate when you place your order.

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New Finds

Scientific American: Viking Textiles Show Women Had Tremendous Power

Cloth from Viking and medieval archaeological sites shows that women literally made the money in the North Atlantic.

scientificamerican.com/article/viking-textiles-show-women-had-tremendous-power/

Local Teachers and Classes

Guild Member Web Sites and Videos

Interest Group Resource

Natural Dyeing

Stitchery

Weaving

Fiber Arts Resources

Supplies, Dyes, Fibers, Fabrics, Seeds

Online Blogs

Online Classes

Online Communities

  • Ravelry: Online community of knitters, spinners and weavers. ravelry.com

Online Tutorials

Organizations

  • The American Tapestry Alliance: americantapestryalliance.org
  • The Association of Northwest Weavers’ Guilds (ANWG): northwestweavers.org
  • The Center for Traditional Textiles in Cusco, Peru:  This organization was started by Nilda Callanaupa. It maintains a reciprocal relationship with weavers in Peruvian villages, providing them with a place to stay in Cusco while they demonstrate and sell their traditional textiles, and provides organizational support for weavers in the communities. textilescusco.org
  • CNCH (Conference of Northern California Handweavers): Site includes links to member guilds, member’s home pages, classes, comprehensive supplier’s list, and much more. cnch.org
  • The Handweavers Guild of America, Inc.: weavespindye.org
  • Mexican Indigenous Textiles Project: This is a project of Robert Freund to document indigenous Mexican textiles from 300 villages with photos of the textiles, people wearing the textiles, village life,and surrounding environment. mexicantextiles.com
  • The Textile Arts Council in the de Young Museum, San Francisco: textileartscouncil.org
  • The Textile Museum, Washington,D.C.: textilemuseum.org
  • The World Shibori Network: shibori.org
  • Carmel Crafts Guild: carmelcraftsguild.org
  • Black Sheep Guild: blacksheepguild.org
  • Anne’s Web (spinners): facebook.com/anneswebspinning
  • Bay Area Basketmakers:  bayareabasketmakers.wordpress.com
  • Glenna Harris: glennaharris.org

Publications

Suppliers – California

  • The Lace Museum:  Lace making supplies (Sunnyvale, CA). the-lace-museum-shop.myshopify.com
  • Lacis Museum of Lace and Textiles: Good source for supplies and hand work classes (Berkeley, CA). lacismuseum.org
  • Thai Silks: A very affordable light and sheer fabric, but it looks and feels very different than the silk that is bought in Uzbekistan (Mountain View, CA). thaisilks.com
  • Yarn Shop Santa Cruz: yarnshopsantacruz.com

Suppliers – USA