Diss Guild of Weavers, Spinners, and Dyers

Diss Guild of Weavers, Spinners, and Dyers We meet on the last Thursday of each month 12.30- 3.30 pm at Diss and District Bowls Club

Our February meeting was a workshop on Tassels, led by Maureen Marshall.Maureen gave us some background and history of t...
14/03/2026

Our February meeting was a workshop on Tassels, led by Maureen Marshall.
Maureen gave us some background and history of tassels and displayed her beautiful collection, some of which came from Venice. She then guided us though making a basic tassel and then we created another of our own design. Our thanks to Maureen for an interesting and absorbing session.
For show and tell Juliette brought her beautiful scarf, woven on her Saori loom and then showed us 2 examples of English long-drawn spinning and answered questions from the group.
Five of our members attend the Guild gathering at Carrow House on Sunday March 8th, where we had plenty of time to network and take part in the workshops.
Next Guild meeting - Thursday 26th March.

A Happy New Year to all Weavers, Spinners and Dyers.
01/01/2026

A Happy New Year to all Weavers, Spinners and Dyers.

October's meeting was a talk by Jayne Delarre on ‘Viking Weaving’Jayne Delarre and her husband Steve brought to the meet...
16/11/2025

October's meeting was a talk by Jayne Delarre on ‘Viking Weaving’

Jayne Delarre and her husband Steve brought to the meeting a warp weighted’ loom and many examples of the weaving that she had completed on the loom. In addition she brought artifacts, tools, and manikins dressed in viking clothes. One piece of clothing was a cape made from wool from Hebridean sheep.

Jayne was dressed in Viking clothing and gave us an informative talk about Viking weaving, the culture and crafts of the time using images on a screen. She demonstrated how the loom operated and members and visitors could try their hand at weaving.

This was an ‘Open Meeting’ and had been advertised among Norfolk and Suffolk Guilds, and other textile crafts organisations.

Many thanks to Jayne and Steve for their fascinating talk.

For our September meeting we welcomed members of the locally based U3A. Guild members set up 5 stations: weaving, dyein...
26/09/2025

For our September meeting we welcomed members of the locally based U3A. Guild members set up 5 stations: weaving, dyeing, spinning, braiding and felting and our guests rotated around trying and learning about the different skills. Culminating in tea and cake. A great time was had by all

The topic at our July meeting was Solar Dyeing. Members discussed their results and showed the results of their experim...
03/08/2025

The topic at our July meeting was Solar Dyeing. Members discussed their results and showed the results of their experiments. Members used a range of dye material including: red onion skins, turmeric, dock seeds, daliah deadheads, safflowers and, cochineal and cool aid.
Show and Tell was Anne A and her wonderful multi-coloured jacket and Anne D showing us the amazing results into her journey of crochet.

We had a thoroughly enjoyable at Bacton Fair yesterday representing the guild. There was plenty of interest from the pu...
03/08/2025

We had a thoroughly enjoyable at Bacton Fair yesterday representing the guild. There was plenty of interest from the public.

Our guest speaker for June was Kally Davidson, who talked about free form crocheting and presented examples of flowers, ...
07/06/2025

Our guest speaker for June was Kally Davidson, who talked about free form crocheting and presented examples of flowers, buds, stems and amoeba looking creations - all brightly coloured and very textured. Some of which glowed!

Some of us were experienced at crochet others with very limited knowledge. With Kally's help we then experimented trying to recreate these magnificent shapes. A fun time was had by all.

Look out for us at Diss Carnival on Sunday 7th June.

The focus on April's meeting was Saori weaving. A talk presented by Susan Percival and Sue Delf, which covered amongst ...
13/05/2025

The focus on April's meeting was Saori weaving. A talk presented by Susan Percival and Sue Delf, which covered amongst others: the history, philosophy, equipment and some of the techniques used by 'devotees' of Saori weaving. There was a lively Q and A session and plenty of samples for all to see and handle.
This was followed by a 'show and tell' by Susan Percival who explained how she had spun some easy spin cotton into an amazingly even and fine 2 ply.

Next meeting 29th May - topic Free form crochet by Cally Davidson.

March MeetingAnne Dixon gave us a unique talk on the history of weaving. Including the origins of weaving and it's deve...
16/04/2025

March Meeting

Anne Dixon gave us a unique talk on the history of weaving. Including the origins of weaving and it's development from early man, simple looms, Jacquard looms etc and the social history of the periods.

Anne has written 2 books on weaving and is extremely knowledgeble on the subject.

A really enlightening and interesting talk. Thank you Anne.

April's meeting will focus on Saori Weaving.

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Diss And District Bowls Club, Denmark Street, (Fair Green)
Diss
IP224BE

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