Hello EWG Members,

You are invited to purchase a piece of weaving from a local master weaver, Ilya Oratovsky (he passed away in 2020).

Custom Woolen Mills in Carstairs, AB has a wonderful feature on his life as a weaver in Edmonton. The link to the article is here:

                   https://www.customwoolenmills.com/blog/ilya-oratovsky-a-master-weaver/

Ilya had been honoured with an Alberta Craft Council Award of Excellence for Fibre Work and had been a member of the Edmonton Weavers’ Guild for many years.

All remaining items will be available for purchase at our Fibre Mart on April 5, 2025.

Fibre Mart – April 5th, 2025

In the latest newsletter, it was announced that Fibre Mart will be held on Saturday, April 5, 2025, immediately following the general meeting. The sale will be open to the public from noon – 2:00 pm.
  Attached are the following documents:
  – a poster announcing the sale (feel free to distribute as you wish)
  – detailed Fibre Mart instructions
  – price tags
Hard copies of the price tags and inventory sheets will be available in the Guild room by mid-February.
If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to reach out to the Fibre Mart coordinators (Jen Huska – jenhuska@gmail.com or Evelyn Schwabe – evelyn.schwabe@shaw.ca).

Fan Reed Demonstration July 14th

Posted July 15, 2024

The Woolhouse loom had been set up with the guild’s fan reed and a demo warp. Members came in and were shown how the system worked and got the opportunity to try it out themselves. Many wonderful samples (also including scarves and a top that had been done on other looms, but with this same reed) were on display.

Repetition in rebuilding

Alberta Craft Discovery Gallery

February 15 – March 29, 2025

Reception: February 15, 2 – 4pm

Building a home, a home that is constructed of lint and thread, of intimacy and affection. To build a home that is constantly, intentionally being taken apart, only to be rebuilt.

Kate Ritchie is a Calgary-based textile artist whose practice consists of unweaving and reweaving, focusing on the transformative possibility of radical care, and the infinite ability for objects and people to come apart and back together again, reveling in the hems, selvedges, and seams.