About Us
How We're Helping
We are the original Maker’s Movement! Traditional fiber arts experienced a renewal when Traveling Treadlers was founded in the early 1970’s. Our guild was founded to educate, demonstrate, preserve, and also to innovate traditional fiber arts in the Green Bay area. We are passionate about working in different mediums and helping others develop their skills.
Education
Traveling Treadlers fosters education by hosting a "Show and Share" each meeting, sponsoring educational programming, exhibiting for shows & schools, and offering an annual member scholarship.
Membership
You are invited to visit our meetings and join in the fun. We welcome makers of any ability and all fiber art forms. Membership is offered at a low annual fee and includes many oppurtunities to share, network, exibit, learn, and create. Traveling Treadlers offers 2 free preview meetings. We kindly request your financial support to help continue our mission after the preview meetings. Attendance at meetings is not required for membership.
What is "Fiber Art" ?
Dyeing
Hand Spinning
Hand Spinning
Dyeing is the application of dyes or pigments on textile materials such as fibers, yarns, and fabrics with the objective of achieving color with desired fastness. Dyeing may be done at many different points in the artistic process to achieve many different results.
Hand Spinning
Hand Spinning
Hand Spinning
Hand Spinning is the art of twisting plant, animal, and synthetic fibers into yarn. The process of twisting fiber into yarn may be done with either a drop spindle, spinning wheel, or hand twisting.
Weaving
Hand Spinning
Knitting & Crochet
Weaving is the method of textile making in which two distinct sets of yarns or threads are interlaced at right angles to form a fabric or cloth. Hand weaving has many forms including tapestry weaving, production weaving, inkle weaving, stick weaving, and back strap weaving.
Knitting & Crochet
Knitting & Crochet
Knitting & Crochet
Knitting and Crochet use needles or hooks to make loops with yarn that are connected together to form cloth.
Felting
Knitting & Crochet
And So Much More!
Felting is a method of massive entanglement of fibers to lock them together into a fabric. Felting may be done by a wet process or using special needles.
And So Much More!
Knitting & Crochet
And So Much More!
The wonderful thing about Fiber Art is it doesn't stop with Spinning, Weaving, Dyeing, Felting, and Needlework. There are so many other forms including Quilting, Embroidery, Appliqué, Rug Hooking, Braiding, Macrame, and any other method you can think of to turn fibers into art. Traveling Treadlers embraces all of these art mediums and also their use together.
Donate Now
Your generous gift will help us fund our mission to spread awareness for fiber arts. Together, we can make a difference. Dues to join are $20 annually. Donations of $20 or more automatically qualify you for membership.
