Membership
Join us in the love of fiber!
Membership allows you to:
- Be part of a community of fiber enthusiasts
- Attend monthly meetings and programs
- Register for Guild workshops
- Use the extensive lending library
- Apply for selling your fiber art at the Holiday Sale
- Volunteer for projects, sales and other activities
- Participate in a study group
- Rent Guild weaving equipment
- Apply for a scholarship to learn new skills
- Vote at business meetings
- Get discounts at area fiber merchants (Bead Breakout, Heart Forge Solutions)
- Receive our newsletter, The Yarn
- Make use of the Weaving and Fiber Arts Center's open studio hours and resource library
Membership Fees *
- $40 Individual
- $75 Supporting
- $50 Family
- $30 Out of town (resides 50+ miles from Rochester)
- $25 Student (under 25 years old with valid student ID)
All member categories receive all membership benefits: one vote, one YARN subscription, Guild programs, all-Guild email list, library privileges, eligibility for workshop enrollment, scholarships, and equipment rental. First-time members joining mid-year may do so at a reduced fee.
Newsletter Subscription Only *
A $15 newsletter-only membership is available, using the membership application form available below. Newsletter-only subscribers receive no other membership benefits.
Membership Application
Our membership year begins June 1 and runs until May 31 of the year following.
Apply for membership online and pay with credit card through Paypal.
For the paper method of joining click on this membership form.
Download the form, print it, fill it in, mail it, and include a check.
* After February 1, membership fees and newsletter are half price for first time members the rest of the member year ending May 31.
Membership Benefit Details
Equipment Rental
The Guild owns and maintains a variety of weaving and fiber arts related equipment that is available for rent to members. Rental fee for almost all of the items is $2 per week and includes related accessories such as reeds, lease sticks, bobbins, etc.
Available equipment:
- Table looms: 4, 8 & 12 shaft
- Inkle loom
- Triangle looms
- Floor looms: 4 & 8-shaft
- Tapestry loom
- Warping reel
- Fan Reed
- Bobbin lace pillow
- Spinning wheel
- Drum carders
- Marudai
- Laptop with weaving software
- Serger
- Metal temples/stretchers
Members should contact the Rental Chairman, wgr@weaversguildofrochester.org, to reserve an item or to request more detailed information about these items.
The Yarn
This newsletter is the publication of the Weavers' Guild of Rochester, Inc. It is mailed or emailed to members and exchanged with guilds throughout the United States and Canada.
Fiber arts news and related articles are welcome from members and non-members. Email articles, reviews, event notices, suggestions and advertising inquiries to yarn@weaversguildofrochester.org.
Many thanks...
...to our guild members who have contributed the images on this site. In addition to their fiber work, they have generously shared the photos they have taken. Photos by Linda Berson, Melita Gill, Nancy Kanniainen, Denise Kovnat, Susan Nimeh, Joyce Robards and Jan Hewitt Towsley are dominant on these pages. Their skills are greatly appreciated by the Guild.
