Now that Auckland has moved to covid-19 alert level 1, Handweavers & Spinners Guild meetings and activities are back to normal but we still encourage you to use the QR code or manual register to record visits to the Guild rooms and to maintain hand hygiene and other measures to help keep covid-19 eliminated. And of course, please stay home if you are unwell.
Summer “spring clean” at the Guild rooms
The Guild rooms are looking a bit grungy and we thought it would be good to get together to remove mould from the walls of the main room and the bathrooms. And clean up anything else that takes your fancy!
Everyone is welcome! Don’t worry if you can’t climb ladders or clean high places. Maybe there’s a cupboard or a corner you’ve been itching to tidy – now’s your chance!
Or if you just want to sit, craft and chat, then just come anyway.
Please bring rubber gloves and old rags if you have them.
The committee will provide cleaning products and snacks.
Date: Saturday 23 January 2021
Time: 10am
Summer twilight pop-in crafting sessions
We’re planning some twilight pop-in sessions at the Guild rooms in late January/February.
These will be informal, social gatherings similar to Tuesday night TNT sessions where Guild members share skills and techniques and socialise. Details of these sessions will be available here in the New Year.
Open to all ages and abilities
Classes and workshops
A superb textile craft library
Access to yarns, dyes, equipment and expertise
A strong sharing tradition
Welcome to the Handweavers and Spinner Guild Auckland!
We are a friendly community of fibre enthusiasts who love sharing our experiences, knowledge, ideas, successes and challenges in spinning, weaving, knitting, felting, tapestry weaving, crotchet and other fibre crafts.
The Guild is open to all ages and abilities and welcomes new members. Membership of the Guild offers:
- special interest groups in knitting, spinning, weaving, tapestry weaving and felting
- access to a comprehensive textile craft library
- access to yarns and fibre for purchase (especially yarns and fibre not readily accessible in New Zealand)
- equipment to borrow
- discount on classes and workshops
- a community of congenial fibre enthusiasts.
Since it was set up in 1954, the Guild has fostered and encouraged the fibre arts in a welcoming and sharing community.
The Guild is affiliated to Creative Fibre, the New Zealand organisation for all fibre crafts.
To join the Guild, you must also be a member of Creative Fibre.
Annual Guild membership: $45
Annual Creative Fibre membership: $35
See here for information about the location of the Guild premises.
The Handweavers and Spinners Guild runs a number of special interest groups in knitting, spinning, weaving, tapestry weaving and felting. For more information about these groups, see the Guild Groups page.
See here for information about the location of the Guild premises.
Contact us
Email: handweavers@xtra.co.nz