Members' Websites

Alison Daykin - Textile designer, weaver & teacher. Her site lists the offering of courses she tutors.

Alison Yule Textile Design - Featuring unique handwoven fabrics for the home and clothing, and a gallery of her fabric designs.

Anna Champeney - Website of weaver Anna Champeney with information on her textiles, natural dyeing, and Galician Folk Weaving. Includes a gallery of her work, listings of courses and events, and information on sales and commissions. Also links for information on local northwest Spain.

Anne Field Studio - Anne Field, author, weaver, and spinner, offers her books, lectures, seminars, workshops, a gallery of her commissioned work, and a monthly online newsletter.

ArtyBirdCarnforth is the website of Kate Horner and Rosie Jackson who run attended and distance learning City & Guilds and individually tailored courses in a range of textile and art subjects.

Barbara Schutzgruber - Storyteller & Weaver - Storytelling performance details, contact info, tapes, CDs, DVDs, and weaving gallery.

Barton Alpacas - Amanda Poyner's small but growing herd of huacaya alpacas in Somerset, offering raw fibre for handspinners and animals for sale, including ongoing after sales support and advice for new owners.

Belinda Rose Designs - Belinda Rose, based in Aberdeenshire, designs and handweaves richly coloured and textured fabric for clothing and household items. Individually tailored weaving tuition also available.

Casa Dos Artesans - Weaver and natural dyer Anna Champeney and her basketmaker partner Lluis Grau, run this holiday cottage in rural Galicia in northwest Spain. Together they offer optional craft courses and one-to-one tuition to guests staying in the cottage. A public exhibition of textiles and baskets can be seen in their craft workshops in August.

Crafts at Les Landes - Gloria Peek offers spinning, weaving, dyeing and other fibre related workshops in the beautiful countryside of Normandy, France. Her site includes a digram of the parts of a traditional spinning wheel.

De Spinners - Website of Dineke de Boer's small firm in Holland. She sells Majacraft and Ashford products, Polwarth wool from Wendy Dennis in Australia, silk from Nancy Ballesteros in Australia, and wool from Ashland Bay of the USA.

Devon Fine Fibres - Lesley Prior offers Bowmont wool and cashmere and mohair goat fibres produced at her farm. Special attention is paid to their quality and fineness and Leslie is able to help in it's selection and answer any questions.

Distance Knitting - Fiona Morris offers knitters the opportunity to study the City and Guilds Creative Studies courses in Hand and Machine Knitting as distance learning packages. In addition, she offers talks, and hand knitting and machine knitting workshops. Her available knitting patterns and kits are also listed on her website.

Dunnose Head Farm - Dunnose Head Farm on West Falkland (Falkland Islands, South Atlantic) is home to Clive & Rosemary Wilkinson who raise white Merino crossbred and mixed-breed coloured sheep. Their wool is produced without artificial fertilisers, dips, injections or other chemicals.

A Dyer's Manual - Mary Carbert offers a re-print of A Dyer's Manual by Jill Goodwin, a natural dyes book first published 1982. Contents include: Fibres, Mordants, Dyeing with weeds, Dyes from the garden, Test Dyeing, Indigo, Woad, Weld, Madder, Lichens, Ancient Dyes, and an extensive chart of plants and the colours they give with different mordants.

FiberRachel - A budding website for Rachel Hardy's fiber interests, including anything textile related she is finding a new home for.

Fiery Felts - Helen Melvin offers naturally dyed fibers, felt packs, beautiful scenes from handcrafted felt, and her own instruction books on natural dyeing and felting.

Frayed Edges - Website of 10 designer weavers, including Online Guild members Alison Daykin and Jane Deane. Pages include profiles, exhibitions, and links.

Handspindeln, Strick & Filz - A personal website in German by Ulrike Bogdan, a spinner, dyer and knitter, with instructions on spinning with drop spindles, fulled knitting and 2-D socks. Her weekly musings on textiles, audiobooks and other things as well as further instructions can be found on her blog, Das Spindelchen.

Handwovens by Katie - Specialising in rag rugs, table runners, place mats, mug rugs, hot mats, and custom orders. Located in the U.S. For information, contact Katie Farr.

Jane Flanagan Textiles - Hand woven textile designs and traditional textile craft workshops for all ages and abilities. Supplier of Estonian wool batts for felt making in a wide range of colours.

Janet Phillips - Textile designer, hand weaver, and weaving tutor Janet Phillips' website. Offers a gallery of her work, listings of her workshops and articles, and information about commission weaving.

Jeanet Koek - spinner, natural dyer, handknitter and feltmaker. Website shows her work, and gives information about the workshops she offers on spinning, dyeing and feltmaking.

Kathe Lewis - Webshots photo gallery of Kathe's spinning, dyeing, finished objects, spinning tools, jewelry, angora rabbits, cats, and more.

The Loom Room - Stacey Harvey-Brown is a silk weaver, woven textile artist, and teacher. She teaches residential weaving courses from beginner to advanced, from 4 shafts to jacquard. Her website gives information about her work, the courses, her weaving history, and her gallery.

Manda Crafts - Amanda Hannaford, handspinner and dyer, offers spinning and dyeing tuition, hand-dyed fibres (space-dyes, rainbow, and solids), and unique hand-dyed silk scarves.

The Mulberry Dyer - Debbie Crum uses historical recipes to produce naturally dyed fibres, yarns, and cloth. She also offers period specific tools and equipment for handspinning and textile work: lucettes, braiding disks, drop spindles, knitting needles, etc., all beautifully handcrafted from wood. In addition she offers workshops on Natural Dyes, Drop Spindle spinning, Lucetting or Embroidery, (period specific, or as a general topic).

Northern Lace - Elizabeth Lovick offers 4 ply and aran weight yarns, and roving from the island of North Ronaldsay, as used in the Rare Breed Challenge of August 2004. Also original patterns and hand-dyed yarn.

Pure Tinctoria - These Eco-friendly natural dyes are concentrated, inter-mixable and provide all the colour possibilities of natural dyes with the ease and convenience of chemical dyes without the hazards.

Renaissance Dyeing, naturally dyed fine threads - 100 naturally dyed fine threads for crewel work, embroidery, knitting, weaving, tapestry and whatever you want to create. Hand dyed with natural dyes such as indigo, madder, weld, woad and cochineal.

Sargasso Enterprises Limited - Owned and operated by Linda and Doug Wilson of Alberta, Canada. Information on products and weaving course offerings, a weaving gallery, and related links.

Skylark Holidays - Find spinning, weaving and dyeing courses here, tutored by Alison Daykin, award winning textile designer and co-author of "Creative Spinning".

VDHweb Wol-hobby - Website (in Dutch) of Ineke v.d. Heijden, with information on dyeing wool with natural and acid dyes and a small selection of homemade topworl spindles for sale..

Webbs Green Farm Wool - Carole Keats spins, weaves, and knits from her workshop, Willow Close Studio. In addition to offering quality handcrafted items and tuition, Carol is an agent for Louet, Ashford, Bosworth, Clover, Fibertrends, and Eucalan Wool Wash. Visitors are welcome by appointment.

Willo Alpacas - Located at the edge of the North York Moors National Park and owned by Denise Newey and her husband, breeders of Huacaya Alpacas. Their site features a photo gallery, newsletters, and listings of animals for sale.

www.wildfibres.co.uk - From nettles to cashmere: information on natural fibres by Mike & Teresinha Roberts.

www.woad.org.uk - Teresinha Roberts website is all about woad: its history, cultivation, preparation, use as a dye, and more.....