The Guild has a range of books, pamphlets, audiovisual material and equipment. Items may be borrowed by members.
Equipment
The following equipment is available for loan. Full details are provided in a catalogue of equipment (complete with photographs of every item) which can be referred to in the Guild library.
| Guild Equipment |
|---|
| Ashford Wheel 1 |
| Ashford Wheel 2 |
| Dryad Wheel? 3 |
| Bobbins for Traveller |
| Bobbins for Dryad |
| Drum carder |
| Carders (pair) |
| Blending brush |
| Blending Board |
| Flick carder |
| Niddy Noddy |
| Lazy Kate |
| Lazy Kate |
| Inkle Loom 1 |
| Inkle Loom 2 |
| Inkle Loom 3 |
| Tapestry Loom 1 |
| Tapestry Loom 2 |
| Woodcrafty peg loom |
| + extra pegs |
| Peg loom board (no pegs) |
| Viking Woolcombs |
There are also some items not in store which will be added to this page when they are available for loan.
Books
| Title | Author(s) | Copies |
|---|---|---|
| Weaving | ||
| Backstrap Weaving | B Taber & M Anderson | |
| Byways in Hand Weaving | Mary Weigs Atwater | |
| Designing on the Loom | Mary Kirby | |
| Double Weave Plain and Patterned | Harriet Tidball | 2 |
| Egyptian Landscapes | Ramses Wissa Wassef School | |
| Foundations of Weaving | Mike Halsey/L Youngmark | |
| Hand Weaving | Mad Duchemin | |
| Handweaver’s Pattern Book | Anne Dixon | |
| Handweaving designs and instructions | Lotte Becher | |
| Handweaver’s Instruction Manual | Harriet C Douglas | |
| Handwoven Rugs | Mary Meigs Atwater | |
| Handweaving on Two Way Looms | ||
| Ideas in Weaving | Ann Sutton/David Cripps | |
| Inkle Loom Weaving | Frances B Smith | |
| Inkle Weaving | Lavinia Bradley | |
| Introducing Weaving | Phyl Shillinglaw | |
| Linen, Hand Spinning and Weaving | Patricia Baines | |
| New Key to Weaving | Mary E Black | |
| Nigerian Handcrafted Textiles | Joanne Bubolz Eicher | |
| Pat Bloor Tapestries | Edited by Kate Jennings | |
| Patterns for Weaving | Jocelyn Burt | 3 |
| Practical Four-Shaft Weaving | Vera Miles | |
| Rag Rugs | Ann Davies | |
| Rugs and Wall Hangings | The Pattern Library | |
| Rug Weaving | Klares Lewes/Helen Hutton | |
| Small Woven Tapestries | Mary Rhodes | |
| Tapestry Weaving | Kirsten Glasbrook | |
| Techniques of Rug Weaving | Peter Collingwood | |
| The Techniques of Tablet Weaving | Peter Collingwood | |
| Textiles & Weaving Structures | Peter Collingwood | |
| The Craft of the Weaver | Sutton, Collingwood & Hubbard | |
| The Craft of Weaving | Irene Waller | |
| The Joy of Handweaving | Osma Gallinger Tod | |
| The Technique of Woven Tapestry | Tadek Beutlich | |
| The Weaver’s Craft | L E Simpson/M Weir | 3 |
| The Weavers Workbook | Hilary Chetwynd | |
| Two -harness Textiles, Open-work weaves | H Tidball | |
| Undulating Web Effects | Harriet Tidball | |
| Weave | Cambridge Guild WSD | |
| Weaving | Nell Znamierowski | 3 |
| Weaving and Spinning | Edited by Yvonne Deutch | |
| Weaving Bands | L Trotzip & A Axelsson | |
| Weaving for Amateurs | Helen Coates | |
| Weaving is Creative | Jean Wilson | |
| Woven Rugs | Ronald Grierson | |
| Your Rug Making | Klares Lewes/Helen Hutton | |
| Dyeing | ||
| A Dyers Manual | Jill Goodwin | 2 |
| Dyes and Fabrics | Joyce Storey | |
| Dyes from Plants | Seonaid Robertson | |
| Dye Plants and Dyeing | Handbook | |
| Natural Dyes & Home Dyeing | Rita J Adrosko | 2 |
| Natural Plant Dyeing | Handbook | |
| Natures Colours | Ida Grae | |
| The Use of Vegetable Dyes | Violetta Thurston | |
| Stitchwork | ||
| American Indian Designs for Needlepoint | D P Storey | |
| Appliqué Album Quilts | ||
| Charted Designs for the Kitchen | ||
| Classic Quilted Vests | M Fons & E Porter | |
| Embroidered Boxes | Jane Lemon | |
| Fabric Origami | Rosemary Muntus | |
| Glorious Needlepoint | Kaffe Fassett | |
| Needlepoint, the Art of Canvas Embroidery | M Rhodes | |
| Persian Rug Motifs for Needlepoint | Lyatif Kerimov | |
| Quilting | Penny McMorris | |
| Quilting in Squares | K Fisher & E Kay | |
| Russian Folk Needlepoint Designs | Frieda Hapern | |
| Sashiko, a Japanese Sewing Technique | Rosemary Muntus | |
| The Little Book of Wrapped & Folded Patchwork | Rosemary Muntus | |
| Knitting | ||
| Creative Knits | Ruth Maria Swepson | |
| Knitting with Dog Hair | K Crolius & A montgomery | |
| Scandinavian Knitwear | Alice Starmore | |
| Spinning | ||
| Coloured Sheep & Handspinners Fleece Directory | ||
| Creative Crafts with Wool and Flax | Molly Duncan | |
| How to Spin just about anything | Janet Renouf-Miller | |
| Spindle Spinning | ||
| Spinning Wheels, Spinners & Spinning | Pat Baines | 2 |
| Spinning the Fleece | Barbara Hamilton | |
| The Essentials of Yarn Design | Mabel Ross | |
| Hand Woolcombing and Spinning | Peter Teal | |
| General | ||
| A Woman’s Place | Majorie Filbee | |
| Instructions for Cutting out Apparel for the Poor | Costume & Textile Assoc | |
| Pamphlets | ||
| Baltic-Style Patterns on the Inkle Loom | Anne Dixon | |
| Handwoven Rugs | Mary Meigs Atwater | |
| Inkle-Loom Weaving (The Basics and Design) | Anne Dixon | |
| Shawls | Pamela Clabburn | |
| Slip Knot December 1986 | Knitting & Crochet Guild | |
| Slip Knot June 1986 | Knitting & Crochet Guild | |
| Slip Knot September 1986 | Knitting & Crochet Guild | |
| Smocking | Needle Crafts 5 | |
| Smocks | Maggie Hall | |
| The Art of Selling Your Craft | Craft-Link UK | 2 |
| Two -harness Textiles, Open-work weaves | H Tidball | |
| Wool and Wool-Sorting | M & P Prior | |
| Woven Rugs | Ronald Grierson | |
| DVDs | ||
| The Slide Collection 1971–2010 | AGWSD | |
| Videos | ||
| The Terrible Knitters of Dent | Bettly Hartley/Elizabeth Middleton |