Travel Time

The annual Professional Weavers' Network seminar was held this year at Coopers Beach in Northland. What a picturesque place!

Our friend Agnes had organised it as well as masterminding an exhibition that she and UK weaver Stacey Harvey-Brown have been working on for some time and now have ready to take to Europe. Stacey was our key speaker and she was to take a workshop after the seminar before travelling through NZ taking workshops and ending up at the CF festival in Dunedin. The highlight of our seminar was attending the opening of Agnes and Stacey's exhibition based on land forms, 'Nature in the Making' at The Earth House' at Peria, a great privilege for us as there is only one other showing of it in NZ, at Oxford North Canterbury 12 April - 7 May. Here are just a few of my favourite photos from the opening, starting with Agnes's stalactites hanging from a tree in the courtyard.

 And these indoors are Stacey's. She's a collapse weave expert and thinks on a grand scale!

Agnes excelled herself with her gorgeous silk network drafting and beautifully executed jacquard weaving. Below is part of a large tryptich of fossilised sand dunes in North America.

And here are the two of them who produced it all while half a world away from each other.

And just a few pics of the quirky venue.

Festival 2013

Just back from having a great time at Festival. Stayed in a house with 10 other people where we were very comfortable. 

Here are the three pieces I had accepted for the exhibition.

 I was pleased with the way my fabric was hung - in fact all the fabrics were well displayed.

The long linen runner earned me a Merit certificate from the Linen Trust.

This one is shorter and is a mixture of linen and cotton. Both were displayed flat, which was nice as several table pieces, of necessity, had to be hung on a wall . . . one of the problems of exhibiting in a gallery.  On the whole the exhibition was great - only one or two things I would have displayed differently.