The Chattahoochee Handweavers Guild hosts three workshops each year with well-known fiber artists. Workshop leaders are chosen for their expertise and are often nationally and internationally known. Workshops are generally held in Room 4 of the North DeKalb Cultural Center.

Workshop registration is on a first-come, first-served basis, with non-Guild members welcome on a space-available basis. Registration normally opens two months before a workshop, and the registration opening date for each workshop is published in the Guild’s Fiber Focus newsletter.

To register, click on the link at the bottom of one of the workshop descriptions below. Only on-line registrations will be accepted. However, you may pay for your workshop either on-line or by check. If you pay by check, your payment must arrive within 14 days of your registration or your registration will be void and your place in the workshop will go to the next person on the waiting list.

If you register for a workshop and are unable to attend, you must find your replacement in order to have your workshop payment refunded. Please email the Workshop Chairman for the workshop waiting list.

The Splendor of Multicolor Warps
with Betty Vera

Date: March 17-19, 2012
Time: 9 am - 4 pm
Cost: $150 (CHG memers); $190 (non-members)
Materials Fee: Approximately $25
Registration: Opens January 16, 2012. Only on-line registrations will be accepted.
Experience Level: Beginner to advanced.
Supplies: Supply list provided after registration.

When you warp your loom, you make a color commitment—but why be limited to just one hue? You can assign a different hue to each harness, rotate colors, add supplementary warps, create color-and-weave designs, have fun with polychrome block weaves and double cloth, and more. This workshop goes beyond stripes and patterns to explore manipulating warp color—to brighten or subdue it, change it, hide it or bring it to the surface, or gradate from one hue to another. Each loom is threaded differently so that everyone can weave round robin and experiment with color interactions on a variety of warps. Participants are invited to make their warps long enough to accommodate a personal project to be woven at home after the workshop.

Color relationships play an important part in Betty Vera's weavings, which combine techniques such as dye painting with both hand- and loom-controlled weave structures. An award-winning artist, she exhibits widely and has published in American Craft, Fiberarts, Shuttle Spindle & Dyepot, Surface Design, and Interiors magazines; several editions of the Fiberarts Design Book; Weaving for Worship by Joyce Harter and Lucy Brusic; Fabrics: A Guide for Interior Designers and Architects by Marypaul Yates; and Fiber Art Today by Carol K. Russell. Betty has taught fibers at Montclair State University and the Fashion Institute of Technology, as well as Harrisville Designs, Penland, Peters Valley, Convergence®, MAFA, EGLFC, NEWS, the Intermountain Weavers Conference, and numerous guilds. She has received three New York State Craft Artist Grants from the Empire State Crafts Alliance, a Ruth Chenven Foundation Award, two Strategic Opportunity Stipend grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and a Silvio and Eugenia Petrini grant from the Handweavers Guild of America.

Past Workshops