Saturday, August 3, 2019

Wangaratta Textile Festival July 2019

Spent the weekend in Benalla and then up to the Textile Show in Wangaratta.

There were 5-6 different areas to visit and I spent a while at each.
Huddling in Jacket scare and Hat in the cold!!
2 degrees when I headed out
 The International scarf exchange.  Each year a different group of involves spinners, weavers and knitters hosts the exchange where participants send in 150grams of fibre and then make something stunning with the fibre they receive. They send this back to exhibit before being  returned their original fibre which has been transformed into something beautiful.
Some of the scarves were magnificent !!

 An exhibition of ball gowns (and Deb dresses) was in the cathedral
Botanical dyeing on Silk  Using eucalyptus leaves 
There is a textile competition Some lovely creation but didn't acre for the winner (no pic here)
This is embroidery!
the leaf in detail 

gorgeous felted birds 

This is individual embroidered circles 

some stunning hats 

A huge exhibition of one woman's lace collection

 lace making bobbins

-

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

India and after

 I've been unable to post all year ( not that 2020 has been a year of activity) and because the the action bar at the top of the blog di...

  • The Pom Pom tree
    It is hard to generate from photos the magnificence of this tree. It is in almost full bloom now, and the perfume wafts through the house a...
  • The new RCH
    It has been a long 5 years in the building of the new Hospital but it has also sped by and hard to believe that we moved in last week! It w...
  • A walk
    I cant believe how much less walking I am doing since stopping work at RCH I used to walk to and from Kensington 30-40mins each way every d...