13 December 2025, 11:00 - 4.00 pm Burridge Gardens Community Centre Off Danvers Avenue SW11 1AR Dyeing
Christmas Meeting and End of Year Show
Join us for our Christmas Event and bring along items that you have made for us to admire
Shared Christmas Lunch
In addition there are a few prizes to win. These are as follows:
Christmas Competitions 2025
The following subjects have been set for our awards 2025:
The Kennedy Cup for Spinning: Fibre 3 Ways
Using no more than 100g of fibre in total, produce 3 skeins of about 30g each, spun in three different ways. The source fibres can all be different or show three ways to spin the same fibre. The entries will need notes and explanations for non-spinners understand and judge your process. Samples of use can be included but are not mandatory. Examples might be: three different yarn weights, three different draw techniques, three different fancy yarns with embellishments, three different ways of managing colour – the opportunities are almost infinite!
The Tapestry Prize: This year our theme is ‘ Inspired by Autumn‘ a very open brief to capture your feel for autmn with the changing colours, fallen leaves, bare trees or the grey mornings with pale pink skies. You need to show the development of your idea with sketches and a final woven tapestry using any tapestry technique suitable for this theme.
Lore Youngmark Memorial Competition for Weaving: Regeneration and Renaissance
Colleagues are invited to prepare a weaving that explores the idea of either regeneration and/or reaissance. For example, you could interpret regeneration as sustainability and design a weave using a yarn from a renewable source, or use an eco-product that has been developed to replace, for example, synthetic fibres suvh as nylon. You could also consider whether an existing renewable fibre, such as linen, has been dyed through a sustainable eco process.
Alternatively, your work could focus on new approaches to design and structure. For example, you could combine established structures such as twill, satin and so on in new ways, Or you could interpret renaissance as an invitation to revive either a forgotten or little known weave structure or one that has become conventional through overuse and use it in new contemporary ways. You could also decide to interpret regeneration and renaissance as a theme, for example deciding that the terms suggest ideas of growth or new horizons and design your weave to express your interpretation. You might be inclined to interpret the theme in context of climate change, or the shifts in the seasons or maybe you think it expresses the transition from older to younger generations and want to weave a work that explores some aspect of ideas like these. You should produce a finished work woven on a shaft loom including a rigid heddle loom.In addition, you should include a mood board or design sheet explaining how you’ve interpreted regeneration and renaissance. You should also provide written notes of your draft, sett and materials and other information about how you have made your item.
Gwen Shaw Cup: New Growth, Old Roots
This competiton is specifically for design and welcomesentries from our disciplines: weaving (both loom and tapestry), spinning and dyeing. To contribute to the celebration of our Guild’s 75h birthday year, the theme is ‘New Growth, Old Roots. You can interpret the theme in any way you choose.
Your entry for this competition is to be a completed item of yoou choice (ie not just a sample) and include a description of how you have responded to the theme and how that translates to your finished piece