Heritage Day at the Park

Waitangi Day at Brayshaw Park is known as Heritage Day and displays and activities are put on by the Marborough Museum, the Historical Society and, of course, all the organisations who call the Park home. As part of Creative Fibre, Marlborough Weavers are there to demonstrate, talk with the public and keep an eye open for possible new members.

Officially Beavertown Hall. our meeting place is always known to Creative Fibre members as Bobbin Cottage which is what we called it from the beginning - long, long ago.

Chris brought along a 4 shaft loom with pedals, threaded up and ready to go. It proved very popular, especially with a couple of children who soon had the treadling sequence sussed and produced some excellent weaving/

Inside the floor loom was being warped up for its next project. Chris and Joan soon co-opted Betty to help and managed to enthuse her about the orderliness of the process. She looks like being our next new weaver.

Joan had wound a colourful warp of high twist wool which will be ideal for weaving with rag wefts or roving to make hot plate mats.

This lightweight folding rigid heddle loom with its bright weft shuttles attracted attention from children and adults alike. 

Displays of weaving covered tapestry, floor rug techniques . . .

. . . scarves in a multitude of fibres, and table ware in linen and cotton

For light relief . . . bumper stickers for the attention seekers!