Guild Exhibition

For information, we hold this biennially to showcase and promote spinning, weaving and dyeing, sell members’ hand-crafted items and second hand equipment and generally raise awareness of our Guild and encourage new members to join. One of the two halls is dedicated to our specially selected traders and provides visitors an opportunity to buy related merchandise. There is a lot of work that needs to be done in order to have a successful event and a committee of 10 or more needs to be meeting regularly during the year before the event.

Our Guild Committee recently discussed what we should do about our Exhibition (provisional date 29th & 30th October at Lewes Town Hall). We have reluctantly, and sadly, made the decision to cancel this year’s Exhibition. We are in the midst of a more serious wave of Covid-19 and any organising committee cannot safely meet at all. By the time we are able to meet, maybe May or June, it is our belief that this would leave little time to organise our event.  The raffle takes many months, with obtaining the silk, then dyeing, spinning and weaving the thread into the beautiful silk scarves, which showcase our work. We have canvassed our previous traders, many of whom are also reluctant to commit to having a stall too. There may be a chance that a small event at Ringmer can be organised but we need to be meeting up normally in order to discuss it with our members.