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Virtual Dye Day - experimenting
"These tiny skeins have been an experiment. The dyestuff was 50g of seed pods from my Lomatia Tinctoria plant otherwise known as the...

Bronwyn Platz
Jun 7, 20201 min read
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Virtual Poatina
"I finished a 6 meter warp of various textures and different purple threads with a contrast white. I wove it on my Saori loom. A very...

Bronwyn Platz
Jun 5, 20201 min read
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Virtual Poatina
"This is my first venture into shadow weave. I had intended to use different colours in the warp and weft but very quickly found that...

Bronwyn Platz
Jun 4, 20201 min read
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Virtual Poatina
"Thank-you for organising the Virtual Poatina weekend. Â I enjoyed it immensely and it gave me the drive and inspiration to get cracking...

Bronwyn Platz
Jun 3, 20201 min read
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Virtual Poatina
"On Instagram Kerstin Neumuller (from Sweden) has recently shared her hand carved rigid heddles and she inspired me to try carving one...

Bronwyn Platz
Jun 2, 20201 min read
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Virtual Poatina
For Virtual Poatina I thought that I would try to weave a scarf with shades of grey and a touch of pink. My inspiration - dusk to dawn;...

Bronwyn Platz
Jun 1, 20201 min read
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Virtual Poatina
‘Moonlight on the River’ was my interpretation of Dark/Light. I wound a warp shading from black to white in 5 steps. I used Bendigo...

Bronwyn Platz
May 31, 20201 min read
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Virtual Poatina - the back story
As Poatina Weaving Retreat was postponed a few members decided they would like to meet via ‘zoom’ and have a Virtual Poatina. The theme...

Bronwyn Platz
May 30, 20201 min read
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Virtual Poatina - snapshots
A good day enjoyed by some of our Guild members, weaving from Marie Ratcliff, Viv Crawford, Di Kearney and Sue Hastie.

Bronwyn Platz
May 21, 20201 min read
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Virtual Dye Day - Buddleia results
As much as I love vibrant brash colour ways, I am in love with these skeins. How do I convince Di that they belong in my stash? Again the...

Bronwyn Platz
May 21, 20201 min read
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Virtual Dye Day - rewind
Another mini lesson show and tell by Di Kearney. Again, Di tells us that "this photo shows the skein in the previous photo after it has...

Bronwyn Platz
May 20, 20201 min read
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Virtual Dye Day - playing with modifier results
The use of different mordants and modifiers changes the results you achieve when using natural dyes. Guild President Di Kearney is giving...

Bronwyn Platz
May 19, 20201 min read
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Virtual Dye Day - Study in colour
Guild president Di Kearney shows us what you can achieve using something as simple as this Buddleia (aka the common butterfly bush) from...

Bronwyn Platz
May 18, 20201 min read
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