September 16, 2026 | Summer Challenge Reveal
Guild Evening Meeting
6:30 pm, Weaving and Fibers Arts Center, in person
Join us for our first evening meeting of the Guild year! Everyone who participated in the Summer Challenge using warps from the warp exchange in June will be showing and talking about their finished projects.
If time permits, we will be viewing a video of an interview with Tom Knisely and Handmade Seller Magazine.
October 14, 2026 | Cromatic Fantasy, Music, Mathematics and Magic in Doubleweave with Jennifer Moore
Guild Monthly Meeting
9:30am, First Baptist Church Zoomed to home members
For nearly 40 years I have been exploring relationships between weaving, mathematics and music in my doubleweave wall pieces. In this multi-media presentation, I will show how I have used doubleweave pick-up as a medium for my geometric designs and color harmonies. I will explain the basic principles of the golden proportion, symmetry movements, tessellations and fractals, and show how I have used them in my work. The program will culminate with a journey through my masters project and an animated video of my weavings dancing to the music of Bach.
BIO
After experimenting with various structures for several years, I found my home in the ancient technique of doubleweave pick-up. In doubleweave two layers of cloth are woven simultaneously, one above the
other on the loom. Through the exacting process of hand pick-up, I exchange threads between the two layers, building original designs onto the underlying grid. By blending numerous colors together in both my warp and weft and playing one layer against the other, I am able to create a nearly limitless range of subtle color gradations.
October 14 -16, 2026 | Double Rainbow Workshop with Jennifer Moore
Guild 2 ½ Day Workshop
First Baptist Church in person only
2 layers, 4 or 8 shafts, 6 colors = Endless Possibilities
This is perhaps the ultimate color sampler! You will begin by winding a warp and setting up your loom according to Jennifer's system for working with multiple colors in a rotational sequence and bringing it to the workshop. A basic two-layered structure will enable you to mix and match your colors, creating an amazing array of color mixtures. As you weave and your warp colors move past each other you will experience a visual feast of iridescence and moire patterns. We will also experiment with single-layered structures such as warp rep and warp-faced twills and the effects that they create on this versatile warp. Those set up for two blocks on eight shafts will also be able explore an unlimited range of block combinations. This sampler will provide a remarkable education in color theory and how optical mixtures work in weaving, as well as a great source of inspiration for future weaving projects.
Workshop fee- $155
Material fee - $15 per student (payable to instructor)
Maximum - 20 students
This workshop has evolved since our Zoomed version in 2021. Jennifer has updated and improved the materials and has the ability to do live loom demonstrations, show the recorded versions or both. She will also send out links to the recorded demonstrations and pdf files of all the slideshows at the end of the workshop. Many people have taken this workshop more than once...
The workshop is full. Please contact program@weaversguildofrochester.org to be put on the waiting list.
October 21, 2026 | Finger Weaving - Simple or Complex with Janis Castrogiovanni
6:30 pm, Weaving and Fibers Arts Center, in person
November 11, 2026 | Designing - Moving from Ideas to Woven Objects with Michael Rohde
Guild Monthly Meeting
9:30am, First Baptist Church Zoomed, on the big screen & to home members
Over the years, I’ve woven many rugs and tapestries. Sometimes the final product comes out of the weave structure, or images I have seen in readings or travels, other textiles or suggestions from others. In this talk, I will show ways that one can take a source idea and turn it into a weaving, with source ideas and images of a few physical weavings.
BIO
The medium in which I choose to work is fiber, primarily flat woven pieces. I’ve picked this less than common medium, having been drawn to the possibilities of relationships between subliminal texture and the interaction of light and color. Having taken this route, the weavings can become an embodiment of the freedom to explore how colors relate to each other and to the surface properties of the fibers used. Pure color and specific color combinations of color have the power to speak to each of us, often producing differing responses in each person. By limiting the vocabulary to color and woven texture, the works are better able to stimulate reactions and emotions that these raw color and spatial relationships can have on the viewer
