A one-page piece from the Minnesota Weaver containing Connie Magoffin's natural dyeing column "From Woods & Fields" and a short news item on the new Surface Design Association. The column covers the Guild's supply of mordants (alum, sodium hydrosulfite for indigo), a note on dye safety, donations of dye plants and dyed yarn samples, warp-painting experiments, and a search for a natural dyer, with a preview of a Navajo dye trip. The news item describes the 1976 national surface design conference at the University of Kansas, the founding of the association, its membership fee and its 1978 conference at Purdue. A Yarn Shed advertisement appears at the bottom.