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Timeline of Major Events
Year |
Event |
1948 |
The Kingston Hand-weavers Club is established by the "Kingston Amateur Weavers," a group of six students taught by Mrs. Bannister on Brock Street. Ida Merriman is named the first President. |
1950 |
The Club holds their first exhibition of hand weaving at the Modern Furniture Store on Princess Street. |
1952 |
The Kingston Hand-weavers Club holds its first sale at the Sunday School Hall of St. James Parish |
1956 |
The Club, now called the Kingston Hand-Loom Weavers, drafts a Constitution. |
1971 |
Ted Carson teaches spinning at the Guild, which is renamed Kingston Handloom Weavers and Spinners. |
1973 |
KHWS collaborates with artist Antanas Tamosaitis to weave a tapestry for the City of Kingston's Tercentenary celebrations. The City gifts the Guild a 100" loom. |
1976 |
The Guild moves into a studio space at the J.K. Tett Centre. |
1988 |
KHWS begins attending the annual Grass Creek Sheep Dog Trials to participate in the Sheep to Shawl competition. |
1998 |
Kingston Handloom Weavers and Spinners celebrates its 50th anniversary at the Kingston Frontenac Public Library. |
2005 |
The Ontario Handweavers and Spinners conference, “Stepping Stones,” is held at Queen’s University. |
2009 |
The group relocates to Portsmouth Town Hall as the City begins renovations on the Tett Centre for Creativity and Learning. |
2012 |
The Guild first participates in First Capital Day in Kingston. |
2014 |
The Kingston Handloom Weavers and Spinners returns to the Tett Centre for Creativity and Learning. |
2020 |
During the COVID-19 pandemic, in-person workshops were discontinued and weekly in-studio days and monthly in-person meetings moved online using Zoom. |