Guild hosts workshop to share centuries-old skills

Beginners learn to weave with rushes from Gilles Lake

Menaywayn Sandy, 10, and her mother, Sue Spence, learn a basic weaving technique on a cardboard loom at the C.M. Sheilds Centennial Library in South Porcupine on Saturday. The workshop was led by Sylvia Martin, founder of the Porcupine Handweavers and Spinners Guild. Martin brought dried rushes she’d harvested from Gilles Lake for weavers to incorporate into their work. NICOLE STOFFMAN/The Daily Press jpg, TD

Children and adults learned to weave with rushes harvested from Gilles Lake, at a beginning weaver’s workshop on Saturday.

A curved cardboard loom made it easier for the rank beginner to get their fingers under the…

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