Fairies and Elves

The annual Festival of New Zealand Spinners, Weavers and Woolcraft Society held this year in Blenheim finished on Sunday on a high.

Sandra has won again!!

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Visit Karen Selk and Terry Nelson

Our friends from BC Canada, silk expert Karen Selk and her husband Terry Nelson visited us this month.

Fabulous one day class with visiting Canadian textile artist, Karen Selk at Ashford Craft Shop

Karen Selk is a textile designer and artist from Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada and is one of the key note speakers at the National Creative Fibre Festival. During her visit to New Zealand with her husband Terry Nelson, Karen treated us to a fabulous one day course at the Ashford Craft Shop on silk fusion.

SILK FUSION, SILK PAPER, SILK FELT WITH KAREN SELK

One day class with visiting Canadian textile artist, Karen Selk. Thursday April 19th, 9 - 4 at Ashford Craft Shop.

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Happy birthday Richard.

Our distributor for Taiwan, Deland Liao, director of Foundertek, visited us here in Ashburton, with her son and daughter who also work in the business.

Learn to Weave on the Inkle Loom -Tutorial Booklet.

Graffiti Opal Sock Yarn.

Van Gogh Opal Sock Yarn. 

Elizabeth and ten other weavers spent the weekend in Dunedin with master weaver, Betty Booth, learning to weave linen. 

Leading UK spinner Ruth Gough took a master class on spinning, plying and carding at the Ashford Craft Shop on Friday 18th of February.