Textiles & Tapestry - Community Project

Three years and one month - that's the duration of time it's taken to complete the Whangarei Community Tapestry and on Sunday the 22nd May we held a "Cutting Off" Ceremony at The Bach Art Gallery and shop. You can see more photos of the Cutting Off Ceremony on the Whangarei Community Tapestry blog

 The Ceremonial Scissors

Marilyn Rea-Menzies (right), from Hamilton was asked to help with the Cutting Off and preparation for hanging. Marilyn has been commissioned to make many tapestries all over New Zealand over the years. Some are in public spaces and many are in private homes. 

Agnes Hauptli (on left) is a weaver from the Far North. Agnes is a self-taught weaver who started to play around on a rigid heddle loom in 1992. Today she works from a purpose built workshop that houses several looms, from 8shaft countermarch to 16 and 32 shaft compu dobby, a huge 16 shaft drawloom and a TC-1 Jacquard loom.

The first cut - Beverly/s children were invited to do the honours!

I was chief photographer for the night a- you can read all about it HERE.  I'm planning on turning the blog into a book and have been researching how to go about doing that.

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The Grand Unveiling will be held at The Forum North at 10:00am on Saturday 11th of June 2016

 The loom is looking very empty now....

....ready for the next project!

Time: 4 hours (22 May)