Meetings
Meetings are held on the third Saturday of each month (February through November) at 2pm.  We have occasional guest speakers as well as hearing from our members and sharing news, tips and afternoon tea.

All Welcome
Non members $5 includes refreshments.

Past Meetings

April 2018 Guest speaker:  Janet Meaney

Janet will be sharing her skill and love of basket weaving. Come and get an insight into this most interesting weaving technique before our basketry workshop 'Random Weave' (30 June, 1 July) where we can learn to create our own memory vessels from natural materials.

March 2018 Guest speaker: Monique van Nieuwland 
2017 Rijswijk Textile Biennial.
The Dutch biennial is a well recognised contemporary textile event. This presentation will show works (knitting, weaving, tapestry, embroidery, sculpture) selected from artists around the world, in the 2017 exhibition held in the Netherlands. Monique van Nieuwland will give a talk about the 2017 Rijswijk Textile Biennial.

February 2018 Guest speaker:  Liz Perry'From the textile cupboard: Textiles from Vietnam' 
As part of her early research on textiles in Southeast Asia, Liz's fieldwork took her to a number of outlying villages in Vietnam where weaving was practiced by various ethnic groups. We will see a range of weaving and embroidery styles in garments and household items such as skirts, collars, belts, blankets, baskets and baby carriers.

October 2017 Guest speakers: Jessica Ashcroft and Jennifer Barrington, CSW Awardees from the ANU School of Art.
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Jessica will speak about her honours project in which she explores the relationship between writing, drawing and textile processes such as stitching, spinning, tapestry and loom weaving.
Jennifer previously trained in Interior Design and has run her own businesses while raising four children. She will also talk to us about her studies at the ANU where her electives include textiles, drawing, painting, glass and sculpture.
June 2017 Guest Speaker:  Liz Perry  
Cambodian silk textiles 
Liz has been researching these textiles since the early 1990s, and will show a variety of examples of Cambodian weaving and dyeing. 
May 2017 Guest Speaker:  Ondrae Campbell    
Natural Dyeing in Italy    
Ondrae will speak about the natural dyeing workshop she attended last year.  
March 2017 Guest Speaker - Monique van Nieuwland
Monique's powerpoint will show works exhibited in the 15th International Textiles Triennial at the Central Museum of Textiles in Lodz (Poland) in 2016.  
The Museum has been showing international contemporary textile art since 1972 and has collected work from the start. Textile techniques included in the 2016 exhibition range from felting, knitting, lace, weaving, sculpture, knotting, tapestry, embroidery and many more!​
February 2017 Guest Speaker - Tracy Martens
Archaeological research into Sth American textiles at
Caleta Vitor archaeological site. is situated in the incredibly arid Atacama Desert, providing the prefect environment for the preservation of fibre artefacts, some as old as 5,880 years. During recent field work, I was able to investigate this collection of nearly 3,000 fibre artefacts including fishing lines and nets, funerary wrappings, bags, spindles, whorls and basketry. The project's aim is to illustrate technological development from the use of single vegetal cords, twining and basketry to spun and plied fibres and complex weaving and dying in addition to identifying introduced technologies and products. 
October 2016 - Ann McMahon, Fibre Basketmakers of ACT
September 2016 - Monique van Nieuwland, Lodz Textile Triennale
August 2016 - Meredith Hinchliffe, arts advocate and reviewer
July 2016 - Guest Speaker - Canberra Embroiderer's Guild
June 2016 Guest Speaker - Helen Cox, Canberra Regional Feltmakers
May 2016 Guest Speaker - Mariana Ortega, tapestry artist from Mexico, currently in residence at ANU School of Art
April 2016 Guest Speaker - Vera Delova, artist in textiles and mixed media
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