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The Weavers Guild of Miami Valley, Inc. was organized in 1949 to promote interest in handweaving.  Today the Guild is a non-profit, educational organization promoting handweaving, handspinning and the textile arts.  The Guild offers educational programs in fiber techniques and processes and encourages artistic awareness and excellence in the textile crafts through lectures, discussions, exhibits, workshops and demonstrations.

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The President’s Column

Greetings Guild Members,

Spring is so close and is teasing us like no other. Either it’ll come and be very warm or we will get Winter 2026 Round 4 for everyone. We’ll be seeing it soon either way!

We have a lot of upcoming events for the Guild and it’s been exciting. I know I have a lot on my plate that I’m trying to juggle myself and can only imagine how other folks are feeling with their lives at home. It’s a lot to take care of everything, but it’s all well worth it.

I’m preparing to begin weaving my 5/2 cotton towels on the big loom – it’s a pattern from the Swedish Weaves workshop of Waffle Weaves. I will hopefully have them off of the loom within the next 2 months, which seems to be a very big ask between all the different events we have going on. Hopefully the hard part of warping is all done and it will get warm enough that I can just sit down for a couple of days and whip right through them. I am learning the errors of my lack of determining stock ahead of time, so my 2nd towel may be strangely colored, but we all live and learn. Can’t ask for more from gift yarn.

I hope you all have a wonderful Spring to come and I will see you all soon.

Best Regards, Jarrett Eckhardt
WGMV, President 2025 – 2026