Glad you found us, you’ve come to the right place! There are a few options:
1. We invite you to join the Weavers and Spinners Society of Austin. We meet twice monthly, except for August. You can see our full program schedule here. We have many accomplished weavers and spinners that enjoy teaching new members to weave and spin, as well as study groups and workshops. Often new weavers learn hands-on by helping to warp a loom, then progress to weaving. Spinners can bring wheels to meetings and get help, especially on Hands-on nights. Members are eligible to check out a guild loom to take home. This way you can experiment with guild looms and wheels, then decide what loom features you want.
2. Fiberfate in Buda is where you can find spinning wheels, accessories, fiber and fiber processing tools from many of the major spinning wheel brands. It’s owned by WSSA member Angela Mathias.
3. Hill Country Weavers on South Congress has a huge selection of yarns and offers weaving and spinning classes. Walking into the building you might think that HCW is just another knitting store, but its founder – the late Suzanne Middlebrooks – was a skilled weaver and gave many of us in WSSA our first weaving lessons.
4. Inga Marie Carmel, also a WSSA member, teaches beginner rigid heddle classes at The Contemporary Austin Art School at Laguna Gloria.
5. Heddlecraft has a great interactive map showing where you can learn to weave.
Why not take advantage of all of them?