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Covid Notice

PHG has resumed in-Person Meetings. We will follow the MAC guidelines. Vaccinations and masking are encouraged but not required. Please take common sense health precautions to protect yourself & avoid exposing others if you feel unwell. Thanks & stay safe!

PHG Meeting Info

NOTICE: Meetings will be held both in-person and on Zoom until further notice. Zoom links are provided in the PHG Calendar where Zoom participation is available.

PHG meets on the second Thursday of every month during September - June at the Multnomah Art Center.

Morning Meetings 10am - noon, 9:30am social
Evening Meetings 7pm - 9pm, 6:30 social

Meetings are free and open to the public. Meetings generally follow the same agenda:
* Welcome new members and guests
* Show and Share
* Brief Announcements
* Short Social Time
* Program Presentation

Multnomah Arts Center
7688 Southwest Capitol Highway,
Portland, OR 97219-2489
Phone: (503) 823-2787

Other Resources

Handweaving.net

Handweaving.net is a digital weaving archive with drafts, historic weaving documents, and more. This website contains 69901 hand weaving drafts, many of which are public domain.

Textile Hive in Portland, OR

Textile Hive, based in Portland OR, is home to the 40,000 textiles of the Andrea Aranow Textile Design Collection. The collection is the largest fully digitized independent textile collection in the world. Through its membership program the visual database offers access to educational institutions, design professionals and textile enthusiasts. Textile Hive’s mission is to preserve and enable greater access to the rich history, intricate techniques, and stunning visual beauty of the textile collection through immersive physical and digital experiences. Click here to learn more, or sign up for a tour.

Portland Textile Month

Portland Textile Month aims to galvanize the local textile community for a 
month-long festival of events centered around knowledge-sharing and
 cross-pollination between enthusiasts, artists, businesses, and institutions.
 We provide an open platform to engage and share ideas, histories, knowl
edge, experiences, and practices across myriad cultures, viewpoints, and
 generations.

Portland Textile Month is part of a mission-driven social enterprise conceived 
of, incubated, and funded within Textile Hive to foster exchange among the 
local textile community and beyond. Portland Textile Month was brought to 
life through the contributions of a core group of committed volunteers. Click here to learn more.

TextileXchange

TextileXchange serves the textile community as a platform to engage and share ideas, history, knowledge, commerce, experiences, and practices across cultures, viewpoints, and generations.

TextileXchange is a mission-driven, social enterprise, that operates a year-round online hub for the textile community and is an extension of the successful Portland Textile Month initiative launched in 2018.

Portland Textile Month and TextileXchange are part of a mission-driven social enterprise conceived of, incubated and funded within Textile Hive to foster community building, collaboration & cross-pollination, cultural dialogue and exchange among the Portland Textile Community and beyond.

Click here to learn more.