Archive for the 'Flowers' Category

Flax on the brain

16 January 2010

I’ve really enjoyed reading the many letters, emails and blog comments that other weavers have sent me since I published my book. It’s fascinating to read about people’s weaving experiences and to see photos of their work, especially when it’s something I haven’t tried myself

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Weaving Flowers from New Zealand Flax

23 February 2009

The book I’ve been writing, Weaving Flowers from New Zealand Flax, is now ready for sale. It contains detailed instructions for weaving fifteen different flower and foliage designs as well as different variations of several of the designs. The book also includes examples of flower

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Flowers for OSCAR

24 April 2007

A lot of the one-off flax weaving workshops I get invited to run involve some kind of unique challenge. This was certainly the case for the art project I was invited to co-ordinate for this year’s national conference of the OSCAR Foundation, an organisation that runs out-of-school activity programmes

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