2026 Programs
November 11, 2026
Botanical printing
With Kathleen Lang
Kathleen Lang is an artist working in botanical printing often known as “eco-printing” which is defined as a natural botanical dyeing technique that transfers the real shapes, colors, and marks of leaves, flowers, and plants directly onto cloth. Kathleen has developed her unique style using this process of designing with live plants on fabric, extracting the shape and color of plant matter, creating exciting prints and color pattern combinations. Environmental concerns have always been in the forefront of her work and lifestyle. Kathleen will share her process, give a short demonstration of her technique and show all of the types of applications on the fabrics that she has created.
About Kathleen Lang
Kathleen Lang initiated her formal training as an artist after raising a family and a long career in real estate and mortgage financing.
She works in diverse disciplines including printmaking, papermaking, eco-printing, cyanotype and book arts. She strives to suggest or capture the forms and colors of nature in her art. Kathleen is an instructor and actively creates in these techniques in her studio Organic Imprints. Her website is www.kathleenlangart.com.
Kathleen studied at Bucks County Community College in Fine Arts with an emphasis on Printmaking and fuels her work through workshops and classes. Her work has been widely collected and offered by museums and galleries. She offers workshops locally and abroad.
November 20 — November 22, 2026
The Handweavers of Bucks County 2026 Show & Sale
For more information and many photos of our members show & sale items, please go to our 2026 Show & Sale Page.
December 9, 2026
Holiday Party
january 13, 2027 - Virtual Program
any flower drawn: restoring a 19th-century
linen damask Jacquard
With Justin squizzero
This presentation tells the story of how a mid-19th century Jacquard machine made for the Irish linen damask industry made its way to Scotland and Vermont. The process of restoring that machine to weaving figured linen damask is followed with an in-depth look at recreating a piece of 17th-century linen, from painting the point paper to punching the Jacquard cards and the operation of the loom itself.
about Justin Squizzero
Handweaver Justin Squizzero challenges modern definitions of progress by creating functional textiles that celebrate the natural world and the dignity of human labor. Echoing a time when utilitarian objects were entirely handcrafted, his work connects material, maker and user across time and place. Squizzero’s venture, The Burroughs Garret, draws on the textile traditions of his northern Vermont home, marrying natural dyes and fibers with a reserved aesthetic rooted in early New England. Produced on his 19th-century farm using 200-year-old hand looms, Squizzero’s textiles examine the role of handcraft in a post-industrial society, questioning the human experience in a digital age. Justin has exhibited his work internationally and shares his love of process in his role as Director of The Newbury School of Weaving in Newbury, Vermont.
february 10, 2027 - Virtual Program
weaving a unique path
With Janice Lessman-moss
Using the distinctive language of weaving, in concert with digital technology, Janice has explored making and meaning for over 40 years. This presentation will take you along on a visual journey of her woven art work, emphasizing how process and materials have played important roles visually and metaphorically.
about Janice Lessman-Moss
Janice Lessman-Moss maintains a weaving studio in her home in Kent, Ohio, USA where she is Emeritus Professor at Kent State University. She was awarded a United States Artists Fellowship in 2019, the Cleveland Arts Prize Lifetime Achievement Award, the Governor’s Award for the Arts in Ohio, an Arts Midwest/National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Crafts, and nine Individual Artist Fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council throughout her career. Her work has been presented throughout the United States and internationally, including a recent solo exhibition at the Kent State University Museum.
March 10, 2027
Thai ikat
With Laura Womack
Ikat is one of the most challenging ways to produce design in a textile. The yarns are tie-dyed before they’re woven. Lining up the yarns — which have been heavily worked — in the weaving is difficult. It’s a technique that requires very strict control of yarns that want to move and tangle while they’re being bound, dyed and woven. The resulting design has distinctive “blurred” edges that is prized for its beauty and as a mark of the skilled labor required to produce it.
Ikat is produced in Mexico, Africa and throughout Asia. The word “ikat” comes from the Malay word mengikat, meaning “to tie.” Laura has studied both silk and cotton ikat techniques in Thailand. She’ll share her experiences, as well as demonstrate the techniques involved using special equipment she acquired from one of her teachers, as well as pictures of her experiences with ikat. She’ll show pieces of ikat from her collection, including work from Thailand, Central Asia, India and Japan.
about Laura Womack
Laura Womack worked as a radio journalist until moving to Singapore in 2001. There she focused on textile art when she became a docent at the Asian Civilisations Museum. She arranged her own textile field studies — including ikat (Thailand); natural dyeing (Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Japan, United States); backstrap weaving (Thailand); silk reeling (Japan, Thailand); shibori techniques (India, United States) — with local artisans throughout Asia. Upon her return to the U.S., Womack earned certificates in tailoring, pattern making and sustainable enterprise from the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York City. Today she lives in Pennsylvania but spends time on Catawba Island, OH and in Southeast Asia every year.
april 14, 2027
The Basket Weavers of Oley Valley
with by Vicky Heffner
The Oley Valley is a picturesque, agriculturally rich region in Berks County Pennsylvania. Named hollow or kettle like, “olink”, by the Lenape Indians who long inhabited the valley, it was later settled by French Huguenots, German Palatines and English Quakers whose farms and historic architecture put Oley Township as the first township in the US to be added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It is not surprising that within these environs talented basket weavers lived and crafted their art for 100 years. Their story has been captured in this power point presentation by Historian Vicky Heffner, a basket weaver herself of 35 years.
about vicky heffner
Vicky Heffner wove her first basket as an intern sitting in colonial garb on the front porch of the Daniel Boone Homestead in Birdsboro, Pennsyvania, almost 35 years ago. Since then she has taught more than 1,000 children, adults and seniors during workshops on how to weave baskets. Formerly in her job as the Education Curator for 31 ½+ years at the Berks History Center, Vicky primarily guided school groups on tours, organized special lectures and programs, conducted bus trips abroad and taught workshops. She currently lives in the little hamlet of Basket in Oley, Pennsylvania.
May 12, 2027
the art of kumihimo: from ancient tradition to modern
with charlene marietti
Combining history, culture, and hands-on artistry, this presentation provides an overview of braiding and related textiles with particular focus on the traditional Japanese braiding art of kumihimo. Designed for those interested in textile techniques, historical crafts, and contemporary applications of traditional skills, the program highlights the revival and global spread of kumihimo in the late 20th and early 21st centuries as modern fiber artists and jewelry makers have adapted traditional techniques for contemporary design, using silk, cotton, metallic threads, beads, and other materials to create necklaces, bracelets, trims, as well as fiber art.
about charlene marietti
Charlene Marietti has been making things with thread for as long as she can remember. Thanks to her grandmother, she learned to sew, embroider, crochet, and tat and, as a girl, yearned to be an artist. Instead, she pursued a practical career path to become a board certified medical technologist with a masters degree in clinical pathology.
Charlene has been weaving since the early 1970’s and was introduced to kumihimo while living in London. She studied kumihimo with Rodrick Owen in England and with Makiko Tada in Japan and has presented programs and taught workshops for guilds and at major fiber conferences, including Convergence '92 and MAFA '93. She explores many of the possibilities for these braids, including the creation of one-of-a-kind silk art-to-wear and has written a monograph on the technique.
She holds a City and Guilds of London Institute Certificate in Creative Studies and Textiles (Distinction) and College Certificate in Creative Crafts: Textiles (Distinction) from London College of Furniture (now London Metropolitan University) with specialization in weaving and kumihimo. Her work has been featured in juried and invitational shows in the U.S and abroad.
June 9, 2027
Year-End Buffet/Installation of Officers
Please join us at the church for our year-end get together. We will have a buffet lunch format. Please bring your drink, tableware and one dish to share with our members. Please don’t forget your serving utensil. Work on your latest fiber project while chatting with your fellow members. Show & Tell and annual installation of officers.