The conference registration is open and will remain open until April 2025.   If you have not registered, do take a look because there are plenty of classes with spaces.   Now that the initial registration is complete, you will receive a speedy response on your registration.

For more information, go to braids2025.com and look under Programme.   The details of every workshop are given in Classes by Technique.   If you look at the workshops by day or by number, the classes that are full are shown in Red.

On 12 November 2024, the following classes are full

2D1   Michael Hattori   Ayatakedai

1D3   Jean Leader        Sling braids

1D11 Jean Leader        Cross warp braids

1D26  Claire Cassan     Temari balls design

1D29  Yuko Yoshida    Leaf Design on marudai

1D32  Ikuyo Nishi      Sippo lace and forked

The Braid Society will be at Yarndale on 28-29th September.   This festival of yarn is held in Skipton, North Yorkshire, UK and has hundreds of vendors.    More details at yarndale.co.uk

We are delighted to announce the programme for Braids 2025, Rocking Braids & Bands which will be held in Cleveland, Ohio, USA from June 15-21, 2025.    Please go to Braids2025.com to explore all the wonderful tutors and workshops.     

Braids 2022, World and Nordic Braids and Bands,  is the fifth international conference on Braiding and will be held in Svendborg, Denmark in August 2022.   The programme has been issued and can be found under the menu option Braids 2022.

The Braid Society AGM will be held on 24th October 2020 virtually.    Details of how to join have been sent to members and are also in the September newsletter.

With apologies for the short notice, the Tokyo Come & Try Day will be postponed from 8 March due to health advisories in Japan.  A new date will be arranged for later in the year.

The notice for renewal until 1 Nov 2019 has been sent out.   The email incorrectly states that your membership runs out on 31 Oct 2017.   This should have read 31 Oct 2018.

Following a number of challenges with the Yahoo group, Braids and Bands, the Council took the decision to move the group to a different hosting site, Groups.io.   The transfer to Groups.io has been initiated and all new members should join Groups.io rather than Yahoo.

In addition to the group on Groups.io, we have two groups on Facebook, Braids and Bands and Braid Society Members to try to ensure that we communicate to as wide an audience as possible.