competition Archives - Buckinghamshire Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers

Open Day & Exhibition – Sunday 21st September 2025

Try your hand at spinning, weaving and dyeing at our Guild Open Day, view the textile competition entries and find out about textile history in our area.

Once again the Guild is taking part in Heritage Open Days, a … Continue reading

Guild 70th Anniversary Tea Party – April 2024 meeting

Celebrate 70 years of the Bucks Guild at our Anniversary Tea Party. There will be cake!

April marks 70 years since the founding of the Buckinghamshire Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers, and we are celebrating with a tea party. … Continue reading

Upholstered Rocking Chair – A Joint Venture

Stef Robinson was the well deserved winner of the Beale Cup at this year’s AGM. We asked her to tell us more about her super project.

Image shows a handmade wooden rocking chair with a drop-in seat upholstered with handwoven red and white fabric. — Finished rocking chair with upholstered seat in handwoven fabric.

Spring Activities and competition

There was egg-citement in the air during our March meeting, when members took part in egg-related activities and brought their competition entries for judging (details further down page). There was a choice of natural dyeing eggs using onion skins and … Continue reading

Nature’s Rainbow – May 2022 meeting

Susan Dye from Nature’s Rainbow will be giving a talk on growing plants for natural dyeing at our May meeting. See below for further details.

Also the summer competition will be launched and there’ll be social crafting in the morning. … Continue reading

Spring Activities – March 2022 meeting

Take part in some seasonal spring themed activities at our March meeting (we won’t be meeting in April because it clashes with Easter Sunday). Bring your competition entries for judging.