Blog Archives - Jackie Abrams

Full moon over Golden Bay, New Zealand

4/22/2016

April 21st, 2016

4/21/2016

Peter W, Nicola Basham, and Janet De Boer

Pupu Springs

Grove Scenic Reserve

Kiwi fruit growing on the vine

4/21/2016

Travels with Bruce

4/20/2016

Bruce Collings, guide extraordinaire, took us four-wheel driving around the northwest tip of the South Island. It was amazing. These photos don't begin to do it justice.

with Janet De Boer

Janet and hubby Peter W.

Farewell Spit, where Golden Bay meets the Tasman Sea

harakeke (New Zealand flax)

Maureen Harte - Harakeke (NZ flax) Weaver

4/20/2016

www.wildsandsweaving.co.nz

Matau - Hook

Koru Tapawha - Koru Square

Bronwynn Billens - Maori Weaver

4/18/2016

pruned New Zealand flax plant

scoring the harakeke (flax)

scraping

muka (fibers) created from the flax plant

making cordage

Bronwynn with her muka kete decorated with feathers

potae (hat)

taniko - the woven top of a garment

Bronwynn working on her hieke - rain cape

Nicola Basham's Baskets

4/17/2016

www.gowillow.co.nz

Swell - woven in a workshop with Joe Hogan in Ireland

Ripple - woven in a workshop taught by Ane Lyngsgard in Denmark

Bustle

music case

two shoppers

Bodice - woven in a workshop taught by Ane Lyngsgard in Denmark

Bowl of Plenty

Flare

kete

Poetry

Salisbury Falls

4/17/2016

Aorere River

Not Your Mother's Coiling Workshop - day 2

4/17/2016

Nicola

Pam

Rosey

Tania

Shirley

Henny

Susan

Bev

Raylene

Julia

Suzi

Alexis

Not Your Mother's Coiling Workshop - day 1

4/16/2016

Alexis

Bev

Henny

Julia

Nicola

Pam

Raylene

Rosey

Shirley

Susan

Suzi

Tania