Diablo Weavers Guild meets in Walnut Creek, usually on the third or fourth Friday of the month from September through June, 10:00 am until noon or a little later. We do not meet in July and August.

Note that November 2018 is on the second Friday of the month.

New members and guests are welcome.

In September, December and June we meet at a member's home. Other meetings are usually held at the Thurman Casey Library in Walnut Creek (Ygnacio Valley Library).

Thurman G. Casey Library

2661 Oak Grove Rd.

Walnut Creek CA 94598

See the link below or the second item on the side bar on the left for meeting dates and topics. As additional programs are developed for 2018-2019 updates will be posted.

Programs 2018-2019

Library location details and a map:

Meeting location

Membership:

Dues for the 2018-19 year, September - June, are $30 per person; $40 per family. If joining half way through the year, dues are $15.

November Meeting

Friday, November 9, 10:00 am at the library

Making Dragon Boat decorations with Reba

Note that our November meeting is early this year--the second Friday of the month on November 9, 2018. We will be making Dragon Boat decorations. Directions to make two small "Dragon Boats" and all supplies will be provided by the guild. If you have fairly narrow ribbon, decorative pins or other materials you would like to use, feel free to bring them along.

Snack for the meeting: Margie K. and Joan A.

For Sale

AVL Loom for sale

40 inch, 8 Harness AVL Loom with side tie up

4 Reeds 6, 8, 10, 12 dents per inch

See photos below, for back, front and side views and accessories.

$700

Contact Mary Giammona: 925-299-1854

Local Events

Hacienda Holiday Faire

2018 Hacienda Holiday Faire

In the historic Hacienda de las Flores!

Nov 30, noon - 8 p.m., Dec 1 & 2, 11 a.m. -- 6 p.m.

Complimentary wine tasting with Captain Vineyards

6:00 - 8:00 pm Friday, November 30th

4:00 - 6:00 pm Saturday, December 1st

Hand-crafted gifts, décor and specialty foods by over 45 local artisans. More than a dozen new artisans!

Fundraiser for The Hacienda Foundation.

Like our Facebook page for a preview of items available at the faire:

https://www.facebook.com/HaciendaHolidayFaire

911 Studios Holiday Art & Craft Sale

Updates from Charlene Woodcock about the Jolom Mayaetik weavers

I scheduled my annual trip to Chiapas to coincide with a conference of cooperatives organized by the Jolom Mayaetik weavers to bring public attention to the rampant copying of designs from indigenous artists and artisans now facilitated and exacerbated by the Internet. It attracted representatives from cooperatives in Oaxaca, Puebla, Guerrero, Yucatan, Michoacan, and from Argentina, Guatemala, Uruguay, Ecuador, Paraguay, and Colombia. The discussion panel included a newly-elected woman senator from the winning Morena party, a woman federal deputy, an anthropologist, and two members of the federal human rights commission to discuss the problems of intellectual and cultural property rights and the theft of indigenous designs, which has increased significantly in the past several years.

Seated next to me in the photo is Celerina Ruiz Nuñez, a past president of Jolom who is wearing a gorgeous traditional huipil woven by Magdalena Lopez Lopez, whose 12-foot long tapestry was the centerpiece of our exhibition at the SF Airport Museum from September last fall to April this spring (see photo below).

We’ll have exhibition/sale events on four days this winter. I hope one of them will fit your schedule:

November 11 in San Francisco, the de Young Museum Textile Arts Council Ethnic Textile Bazaar, see below.

November 30 evening reception & 10 to 5 December 1 at the Hillside Club in Berkeley.

December 2 at my home in Berkeley, 10 to 5. Details to come.

The photo below shows the centerpiece of the SFO Museum exhibit. There is a small exhibit up at the Berkeley Public Library this month. And the link below connects to the University of Oklahoma Press webpage for Weaving Chiapas, the English language edition of the book of oral histories of the weavers who founded the Jolom Mayaetik cooperative. Copies will be available at these events.

http://www.oupress.com/ECommerce/Book/Detail/2302/weaving%20chiapas

Windrush Farm classes

Windrush Farm, in a lovely rural setting near Petaluma, has fiber arts classes in spinning, dyeing, carding and more. They encourage weavers to learn some of these skills.

There are classes throughout the year. They also sell roving and yarn. For more information:

Windrushfarm.wordpress.com

For questions, suggested items to add or edit on this web site, please contact Carol.