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Category Archives: wool
Wellington goes big on textiles to counter:
Once more, Covid has arrived right at arts festival season, but one part of the 2022 Aotearoa New Zealand Festival of the Arts that is largely proceeding is its visual arts component. A few years ago, this side of the … Continue reading
Posted in Artists, Craft, CTANZ people, Dowse Art Museum, Embroidery, Exhibitions, Festivals, Textiles, Wellington, wool
Tagged Aotearoa New Zealand International Festival of the Arts, Areez Katki, Arielle Walker, Bronwyn Lloyd, Caroline McQuarrie, Dowse Art Museum, Erica van Zon, Heidi Brickell, Petone Settlers Museum, Terri Te Tau, Threads Festival, Vita Cochran
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November update – textile stories on air and in print
Lots of recent coverage of textile events and people involved in CTANZ, including our members, our symposium speakers and attendees and subjects, offering up a rabbit warren of links. For starters, coming up on Choice TV this week (Monday 26 … Continue reading
Posted in Artists, Auckland, Awards, Craft, CTANZ people, Dunedin, Exhibitions, Festivals, Film, Jewellery, Media, Movies, Museums, New Zealand, Pacific Islands, Symposium, Textiles, Weaving, wool
Tagged Angela Lassig, Anna Williams, Auckland Arts Festival, Choice TV, Christine Keller, Creative New Zealand, Iran, Loom Room, Objectspace, Otago Museum, Pacific Sisters, Qashqai, RNZ, Rosanna Raymond, rugs, Sue McLean, Sulieti Fieme'a Burrows and Tui Emma Gillies, The Wool Lover
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Christchurch gets crafty
One of the many interesting projects to arise in Christchurch over the past few years has been Rekindle, which began as a means of trying to recycle materials from their post-earthquake state of their demolition. At the Arts Centre 8-17 … Continue reading
Posted in Artists, Christchurch, Craft, Festivals, Heritage, Sustainability, wool, Workshops
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LoomRoom workshop September
At last year’s CTANZ symposium in Hamilton, weaver Christine Keller presented the development of Dunedin’s LoomRoom and showed a shawl made in the LoomRoom by friend/colleague/student Pam McKinlay. Several symposium attendees asked Christine for a workshop so they could make … Continue reading
Posted in Artists, Dunedin, Weaving, wool, Workshops
Tagged Christine Keller, LoomRoom
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Beth Brown-Reinsel knitting lecture and workshop – Wellington
Beth Brown-Reinsel, Vermont-based specialist in northern hemisphere traditional knitting, is currently in New Zealand, giving lectures and conducting workshops throughout April and May. Wellington gets one of each next week. There’s a lecture at Massey on Tuesday 9 May, 2pm, … Continue reading
Forthcoming! A beautiful new NZ-based online journal devoted to WOOL
The Wool Lover is soon-to-be-launched digital journal featuring fresh and contemporary stories across culture, fashion, film, design and so on, all with wool at their heart. ‘A VISUAL, LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDY DEVOTED TO A CELEBRATION OF THE WONDER FIBRE … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Fashion, History, New Zealand, Publications, Reading, Research resources, Textiles, Websites, wool
Tagged fashion, fibre, Kirsty Cameron, New Zealand, online journal, textiles, Vivienne Stone, wool
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