On the no-so-real end of the scale I have a very nice little collection of woven flowers from the conference in Christchurch. Te Roopu Whakahau (the Moari Librarians Assoc.) had a stand at the trade show and for $2 you could buy a raffle ticket for a hamper and you also got to pick a hand woven flower to wear. Within half a day they were the hot ticket item and the crew manning the stand were working their fingers to the bone weaving more.
What makes them totally funky is that they are made from book binding materials - cloth binding tape and buckram.
But wait - there's more! I won one of the hampers (yeah) and as well as some yummy consumables there was a book on weaving flowers. So below (and a little hard to see, sorry) is my first attempt.
In the spirit of recycling and because I don't have ready access to flax I have used packing tape which in Aus tends to be blue but here is mostly white. Not bad for a first go I think and there will definitely be more. No suprises what might be in some Christmas parcels this year if I can get myself up to giving away quality.
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