COSW 2025 Program Survey

What workshop lengths are you interested in:

1/2 day
1 day
2 day
3 day

(Check all that apply)

2. How much are you willing to pay *per day* for a workshop?

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3. What topics are you interested in?

4. Could you attend a workshop that is being held on a weekday?

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5. Could you attend a workshop that is held on the weekend?

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6. Are you interested in virtual (online) COSW workshops?

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7. Are you interested in teaching a workshop? If so on what topic(s)?

8. For 2026 we are considering the following workshops with Karen Gelbard, The Oregon Weaver. (Check out her website https://theoregonweaver.com) Are you interested in either of these workshops next May?

Classes

Trash Bag Garment Design - 1 day workshop | Practicing Design Decisions or Finding Your Inner Designer This workshop is for handweavers who want to practice their design skills. We will create a garment using only trash bags. Trash bags of different sizes, colors, and styles are used because they are rectangles, inexpensive, and easily available. Based on the simple format of a trash bag, we decide what to do for necks, arms, and legs. For inspiration, there will be a review of techniques used by other cultures that turn a rectangle into garment shapes. Cutting, taping, braiding, and laminating plastic bags are examples of the techniques that could be used in this exercise. The workshop will take 1 to 3 hours with a fashion show of designs after the session. Participants pair up as designer and model to collaborate. Materials fee: $40 for duct tape, trash bags.
Cut and Sew Your Own Handwoven Jacket/Vest/Top - 2-day Workshop | This is a 2-day workshop for weavers who want to cut and sew their own. This is an intense 2-day experience designing and sewing with handwoven cloth. It explores pattern layout, individual fit issues, and creative design solutions. Participants layout, cut, and sew their own custom garments with my guidance. Having their yardage is a prerequisite. You can use handwoven fabric (sett recommended at 20-24 epi for stability, or commercial fabric.)They need to bring a pattern they want to use and recently serviced sewing machine. The workshop would require tables and chairs for several sewing machines and tables to cut fabric. Materials fee: $45 which includes Pellon, interfacing.

9. For 2026 We are considering a 2-day spinning workshop with Jacey Boggs Faulkner of Bend in March. Are you interested in taking this workshop covering several different spinning techniques?

Yes
No

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10. Possibilities for a September weaving workshop with Cynthia Newman, Baker City:
Bio: Cynthia Newman has an eclectic background in the fiber arts. She has studied at Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen, Scotland and received a BFA from Oregon State before moving to northeast Oregon where she currently resides.
Cynthia enjoys the contrast between her rural lifestyle and designs influenced by her urban childhood in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her inspiration comes from modern, industrial design and architecture. Attracted to repetitive patterns found in large cargo ships, bridges, machines and grain silos, she translates the patterns into her weavings. She is currently creating abstract wall hangings which focus on light – the light which shines across the surface of water, rivets, concrete and corrugated steel, creating shadows.
Cynthia received Master Weaver Certificate of Excellence from the Handweaver's Guild of America in 2018; recently completed work as a Look Development Textile Designer for a feature film; was awarded Best Technical Excellence for Color Blocks I, II & III in Weaving Guilds of Oregon traveling exhibition in 2018.

Color in Composition - Weaving Workshop with Cynthia Newman is a 2-day weaving workshop focusing on thinking creatively about our use of color. Using block designs, we will explore how block size and proportion along with color selection work together to create the mood of the cloth from energizing to calm. We will discuss thinking intuitively about color using all our senses and understanding color theory as a reference tool. While maintaining our personal preferences for color, we will learn how to create depth and balance in our handwoven cloth.

Four and eight-shaft designs will be provided which address design considerations, including proportion, symmetry and asymmetry. Beginning with warp stripes in different color combinations and stripe proportions, students will apply weft color and treadling variations to the blocks and observe the interaction. This workshop is designed for beginning and intermediate weavers but can accommodate advanced weavers who want to explore color. Turned twill blocks (8-shaft) and summer & winter blocks (4-shaft to 8-shaft) will be used. Students will warp their loom with 10/2 or 8/2 cotton. A large selection of colors wound on bobbins will be available for the students to use and explore. The Instruction will include PowerPoint illustrations along with fabric samples which will be outlined in the workshop notebook.

Are you interested in taking this weaving workshop – weaving done on your own loom, not round robin.

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No

11. Other workshop or guild program speaker ideas?