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  • June Workshop 2025

    Improve Your Spinning Skills with Amanda Hanaford This is a two-day workshop with experienced spinner Amanda Hanaford. Basic spinning and plying skills needed to attend, and is not suitable for complete beginners. Day 1: How to create specific...

  • June Meeting 2025

    Beckley Village Hall Beckley Village Hall, Woodperry Road, Beckley, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

    Have-A-Go Day: Drum Carding Guild member Lyn will give an informal explanation and demonstration of how she uses a drum carder to produce her beautiful colour mixes. Techniques are applicable to hand carding too. With the usual Show...

  • July Meeting 2025

    Beckley Village Hall Beckley Village Hall, Woodperry Road, Beckley, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

    Have-A-Go Day: Sprang Guild member Anne will show members how to make Sprang, an ancient method of manipulating warp threads on a frame to create fabric. Along with the Sales Table, Show and Tell, and afternoon tea and...

  • September Meeting 2025

    Beckley Village Hall Beckley Village Hall, Woodperry Road, Beckley, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

    Have-a-Go Day: Weaving Textures with a Rigid Heddle Loom Unfortunately, our scheduled talk by Claire Shovelton from Studio EVIG natural dye company has been postponed to a later date. Fortunately, Guild member Angela has stepped in to run...

  • October Meeting 2025

    Beckley Village Hall Beckley Village Hall, Woodperry Road, Beckley, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

    Talk: Being Creative With Your Stash with Wendy Usher How many pieces of fabric or balls of spun wool do you stash, sitting there doing nothing but with the tag 'one day I'll do something'? An inspiring and...

  • November Meeting 2025

    Beckley Village Hall Beckley Village Hall, Woodperry Road, Beckley, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

    Talk: All Things Spinning with Cath Snape Cath Snape from Beechwood Crafts will give an ‘all things spinning’ talk based on her book with Alison Daykin ‘Inspired to Spin’. Cath will have lots of samples to hand round...

  • November Workshop 2025

    Colour Blending for Spinning with Cath Snape Cath will be showing how to use hand carders, drum carder, and blending board. The knowledge gained tips over into dyeing and weaving in relation to how colour works together.

  • December Meeting 2025

    Beckley Village Hall Beckley Village Hall, Woodperry Road, Beckley, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

    Christmas lunch and the Chair's Challenge.

  • January Meeting 2026

    Beckley Village Hall Beckley Village Hall, Woodperry Road, Beckley, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

    Stash Sale! Bring along all those unwanted craft supplies and make a sale, then spend your profit on something new! Please remember to label all items for sale with your name and price.  There is a 12% commission...

  • February Meeting 2026

    Beckley Village Hall Beckley Village Hall, Woodperry Road, Beckley, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

    Talk: Guild members Tamara and Helen will tell us about their trip to Morocco, Berbers, knots and more. Show and tell, sales table, and afternoon tea and cake!