Potomac Fiber Arts Guild
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The Potomac Fiber Arts Guild is an association of over 300 fiber artists located in the Metropolitan Washington, DC area. We provide educational programs, study groups, collaboration, fellowship and outreach activities around a wide range of fiber arts, including weaving, spinning, knitting, quilting, felting, dyeing, paper-making, basketry, and surface design.
The guild was started in 1944 as the Potomac Craftsmen Guild by a small group of people in the Washington, DC area who liked to do handwork, especially weaving. For many years they met in one of the Smithsonian Institution buildings. Eighty years later, the guild has changed its name and grown to encompass many other fiber arts.
Our guild’s mission is:
- To widen knowledge of the fiber arts and increase the number of techniques known.
- To investigate and study the fiber art made in our own and other lands.
- To improve our membership’s creativity, methods and techniques.
- To gain inspiration from one another by sharing our experiences.
- To promote the use of quality hand-made fiber art in our vicinity.
Website: https://potomacfiberartsguild.org/