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Roxanne King, East Ohio Handweavers Guild secretary, shares a bag that she weaved out of plastic grocery bags during Saturdayâs meeting at Leetonia Public Library. (Photo by Stephanie Ujhelyi)
LEETONIA Â Saturday was all about looms and reading for the East Ohio Handweavers Guild, which hosted its February meeting Saturday at Leetonia Public Library.
Members, which consist of weavers, spinners, dyers, basketmakers, felters, knitters and lacemakers, and their guests learned about the Viking Loom Saturday morning during their monthly meeting at the Leetonia Public Library.
Monica Hoprich, guild president, explained that was the guild’s third meeting at the library, which also had hosted their December and January sessions.
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Tracy Jackson of Salem offered a presentation regarding using a Viking loom during Saturdayâs meeting of the East Ohio Handweavers Guild at Leetonia Public Library. Also known as a warp-weighted loom, the Viking loom uses a system of holding the warp threads parallel under tension by tying them in small bunches to weights made of stone, pottery or metal. (Photo by Stephanie Ujhelyi)
LEETONIA Saturday was all about looms and reading for the East Ohio Handweavers Guild, which hosted their February meeting Saturday at Leetonia Public Library.
Members, which consist of weavers, spinners, dyers, basketmakers, felters, knitters and lacemakers, and their guests learned about the Viking Loom Saturday morning during their monthly meeting at the Leetonia Public Library.