January 21, 2026 | Ice Dyeing with Natalie Drummond
Guild Evening Meeting
6:30pm, via zoom
Natalie Drummond has explored and teaches various methods of ice dyeing using fiber reactive dyes and plant based fibers. How does laying your yarn flat in a tub or snaking your yarn over a rack to introduce gravity change your results? No matter what weave structure, she finds that using different methods allow her to plan for more control of hue color interaction and value differences. “Step Up Your Ice Dyeing with Ikat and Shibori” appeared in Handwoven Magazine Winter 2024. In addition, Natalie has written a number of blogs about ice dyeing on her website: NatalieWoven.com
Zoom link will be sent to members before the presentation.
February 11, 2026 | Any Flower Drawn: Restoring a 19th-century Linen Damask Jacquard with Justin Squizerro
Guild Monthly Meeting
9:30am, First Baptist Church Zoomed to big screen and to home members
This presentation tells the story of how a mid-19th century Jacquard machine made for the Irish linen damask industry made its way to Scotland and Vermont. The process of restoring that machine to weaving figured linen damask is followed with an in-depth look at recreating a piece of 17th-century linen, from painting the point paper to punching the Jacquard cards and the operation of the loom itself.
Bio:
Justin’s earliest memories of his grandmother are also his first memories of wool. An avid spinner, weaver, and dyer, Justin’s grandmother taught him how to spin yarn on a great wheel while he was still a child and by his teenage years his interests grew to spinning flax and weaving. In 2007, while working at Plimoth Patuxet Museums, Justin spent several winters at Marshfield School of Weaving, learning traditional weaving technique. In 2013 he left the museum field and returned to Marshfield to weave for Eaton Hill Textile Works, and in 2017 started his own business, The Burroughs Garret. In 2023, Justin became director of the renamed Newbury School of Weaving. Justin weaves linen damask using a 19th-century Jacquard loom and has exhibited his work internationally. Through teaching he is dedicated to rebuilding a connection between today’s weavers and the handweaving tradition that existed before the 20th century.
