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Monthly Lecture Series via Zoom Second Wednesday of the Month 7:00 PM EST This exciting new series is being offered to all members of MLH as a FREE benefit of membership. This series does require that you must be a member of MLH. This series will offer you 11 FREE lectures/speakers throughout the year on the second Wednesday…
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September 26, 27, and October 3, 2026 There is something fascinating about double cloth, isn’t there? To weave at all is amazing, and to weave two layers at the same time feels like magic! In this class we will be working on four shafts to dive deep into the potential of those two layers. We’ll…
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Michigan League of Handweavers 22nd Biennial Fiber Art Exhibition Winners Handweavers Guild of America Award: Kathy Zasuwa with “Field of Dreams”Complex Weavers Award: Martha Town with “Eclipse Scarf” Fiber Art Awards1st Place: Marla Smith with “Sedona Sunrise”2nd Place: Lisa Hermesmeyer with “Clio”3rd Place: Nadine Cloutier with “Redwood Tree”
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“Color in Deflected Doubleweave” with Natalie Drummond Deflected Doubleweave is a fascinating weave structure that yields surprises particularly with color, fiber, and finishing results. I’ll take you on my journey with mixing hand dyed yarns with 4 and 8 shaft drafts including how I design in the reed. Those wonky selvedges can be a challenge!…
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“Common and Uncommon Tied Unit Weaves” with Marcy Petrini We will discuss what makes tied unit weaves unique, and how they are different than unit weaves. With one warp and two wefts, tied unit weaves are supplementary structures; we will also discuss how they are different than other supplementary weaves and why exchanging one for…
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A Weaver’s Journey: from Stick Shelters to Jacquard Weaving with Mary Burns Join fiber artist Mary Burns for a presentation covering her lifelong fiber journey from childhood stick shelters to rug weaving, from wall art to natural dyeing and eco-printing, and jacquard weaving. Mary will discuss various styles of weaving that she has done, including…
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My Year with Rust Belt Fibershed & One Year One Outfit One year, one outfit (OYOO) is a cohort-based project that responds to consumerism and the damaging effects of fast fashion. Participants in the OYOO project reside in the Rust Belt Fibershed region (within 250 miles of Cleveland) and create an outfit through a soil-to-soil…
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“Frida Hansen as Inspiration” with Robbie LaFleur Robbie LaFleur, from Minneapolis, Minnesota, has been following a thread of Scandinavian textiles since she attended a traditional handcraft school in Norway in 1977. She was awarded the Gold Medal in Weaving from the Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum in 2006. Robbie coordinates the Weavers Guild of Minnesota Scandinavian Weavers…
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“Finish and Exhibit that Piece!” with Jenny Schu As fiber artists we can have a tendency to enjoy the process of creating a piece but not be prepared to finish or display it. We might start to solve these problems by considering what to do at the beginning stages or during the creation of your…
