Category Archives: wool

Wellington goes big on textiles to counter:

Posted on March 15, 2022 by karinwarnaar

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 →

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November update – textile stories on air and in print

Posted on November 25, 2018 by karinwarnaar

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 →

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Christchurch gets crafty

Posted on October 30, 2018 by karinwarnaar

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 →

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LoomRoom workshop September

Posted on July 8, 2018 by karinwarnaar

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 →

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Beth Brown-Reinsel knitting lecture and workshop – Wellington

Posted on May 4, 2017 by karinwarnaar

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 →

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Forthcoming! A beautiful new NZ-based online journal devoted to WOOL

Posted on October 17, 2016 by Angela Lassig

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 →

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