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The Southern California Handweavers' Guild (SCHG) is an Amazon Associate.


For every purchase you make through an Amazon link on this site, a small percentage of the price goes to support our programs, including our library of rental looms and more than 3,000 books, DVDs, and magazines.

We get a commission on whatever you put in your cart during a trip that starts with one of our links, so if you add another book, a pair of shoes, or some household items to one of our fiber arts recommendations that also helps support the Guild. Or bookmark this page and start all your shopping by clicking the ad above.

The price you pay doesn't increase, and the author (or other seller) gets the same royalty. Nothing changes except that we get a small share of the revenue.
 

Here are some of our members' favorite books on weaving and fiber arts:


Inventive Weaving on a Little Loom by Syne Mitchell (recommended by Jan Larson)

Mastering Weave Structures by Sharon Alderman (Amy Clark)

The Handweaver's Pattern Directory by Anne Dixon (Maureen Gilchrist)

The Complete Book of Drafting for Handweavers by Madelyn Van Der Hoogt (Gary Downs and Shelly Thompson)

Ideas in Weaving by Ann Sutton and Diane Sheehan (Deeana Deeds)

A Weaver's Book of 8-Shaft Patterns by Carol Strickler (Virginia Postrel)

The Big Book of Weaving by Laila Lundell (Michelle Gannes)

Doubleweave by Jennifer Moore (Maureen Gilchrist)

The Making of Modern Tapestry by Silvia Heyden (Jamie Jamison)

The Key to Weaving by Mare E. Black (Shelly Thompson)

Weave Classic Crackle by Susan Wilson (Maureen Gilchrist)

Weft-faced Pattern Weaves by Nancy Arthur Hoskins (Claudia Buchinsky)

Indigo by Jenny Balfour-Paul (Virginia Postrel)

The Crackle Weave by Mary E. Snyder (Shelly Thompson)

Step by Step weaving by Nell Znamierowski (Karen Leckart)

Vanishing Fleece: Adventures in American Wool by Clara Parkes (Charmaine Soo)
"Entertaining read about how yarn is produced in America and the many steps that small boutique yarn producers, specialty sheep farms, wool processing/production companies must take to provide USA-sourced product."

Books By Our Speakers:




We've been pleased to feature authors at some of our Zoom meetings. Check out our June guest Adam Minter, talking about Secondhand: Travels in the Global Garage Sale in this video.

On September 26, we were joined by Jean Pierre and Yadin Larochette, who'll discuss their new book Anatomy of a Tapestry. Details of that upcoming meeting are here. 

On November 7,  our own Virginia Postrel discussed her new book The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World in a joint Zoom meeting with the Ventura guild.

The much-anticipated March workshop and talk by Deborah Jarchow fell victim to Covid-19, but we're working to get Deborah back on the schedule. In the meantime, be sure to check out her new book The Weaving Explorer.

New Books We Love

 


Ikat by Mary Zicafoose

The Art of Tapestry Weaving by Rebecca Mezoff

The Fabric of Civilization by Virginia Postrel