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Compex Weavers Awards

Awards

Complex Weavers is pleased to announce an award to be given for excellence in complex weaving at juried shows. We would like to Encourage Interests and Share Information by acknowledging and publicizing excellent work done by talented individuals in areas of complex interlacements.

What better way to do this than to present a certificate of merit and a special ribbon at shows and exhibits featuring hand-woven items! The award will focus on excellence in weaving with specific application of a threading draft or structure to achieve a complex interlacement of threads and fibers beyond plain weave. There is no requirement that the pieces must be woven on a designated number of shafts or on a multiple shaft loom.

Requests for the award or information about the award should be sent to the CW vice president awards@complex-weavers.org, preferably by email or with an email contact.

The Award Winner will receive a certificate, a woven ribbon and one year's membership in Complex Weavers

In return, CW asks for a description of the piece and a slide and/or photograph that will be copied for the new slide kit, for the gallery on the website and the archives.

A short article for the CW Journal would be appreciated.

The Award Ribbons

to full view of medallion The award medallion
Lillian Whipple wove the central medallion in taqueté using 3 colors of fine silk. Click the medallion for a larger view.


CW Award Streamers by John Mullarkey
The streamers this year were woven by John Mullarkey. They are unusual, as well as being extraordinarily beautiful, in that they are tablet-woven. Materials were blue 10/2 tencel, silk noil of an unknown count but roughly twice the diameter of the tencel, and "a hint of glitz". They were tablet-woven in an original design using the Egyptian Diagonals set-up and turning sequence. John has generously provided the draft and turning sequence, which should allow any tablet weaver to reproduce them.

CW award streamers by Meg Wilson
The streamers used for the 2008 awards were woven by Meg Wilson in a design based on Xs, in which the intersection of the top of the X in threading and the waist of the X in treadling resembles a weaver's knot. She used three ends of 60/2 silk per working end with a weft of gold chainette in order to create a firm ribbon.

CW award streamers by Lynn Smetko
The 2007 award streamers were woven by Lynn Smetko in a three block pattern of 3/1 twill and false damask, using a hand-dyed painted warp and a hand-dyed weft of 20/2 silk. The pattern is reversed half-way through so that when folded neither half of the streamer is the 'wrong' side. The selvedges are tubular doubleweave.

CW award streamers by Laura Viada
Some of the 2005 streamers were woven by Laura Viada in turned overshot using 30/2 silk for ground warp and weft, while the pattern warp was 20/2 silk and a metallic.

CW Award streamers by Carolyn Gritzmaker
Carolyn Gritzmaker wove some of the early 2005 streamers using an old pattern called Rose Tree
CW Award streamers by Carolyn Gritzmaker

Carolyn wove others using a pattern called Maltese from Fiberworks. by permission

CW award streamers by Laurie Autio
Laurie Autio wove the streamers used in 2004, using linen and silk in an 8-shaft fancy twill.

CW Award Streamers by Jean Korus
2003 ribbon streamers were woven by CW award winner Jean Korus. Several of them are shown here.

CW award streamers by Judie Eatough
Judie Eatough wove the streamers for 2002.

Sue Hunt wove the streamers for 2001. Unfortunately, a picture is not available.

In 1999, Charlotte Allison wove the streamers for the ribbons that were presented in 2001-2.

CW Award ard ribbons
Marjie Thompson wove the first streamers and assembled the award ribbons.

 

 

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