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2005 CW Awards

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Details of awards shown above

• "Tencel Town", K.C. Alexander
  Handweavers Guild of Connecticut "Weaving at the River"
  New Haven, CT, April 9-30, 2005
  The fibers are Tencel and sewing thread, using hand-dyed Indigo; Space-dyed multi purples/blues; and Purple Sage. It was woven on 8 harnesses in a 4-block rep weave sett at 24 epi.
• "Celebrating CHT", Marty Benson,
  Contemporary Handweavers of Texas
  Austin, TX, April 15-17 2005
  Marty writes: "Weave structure - 6 shaft broken satin. Warp - 8/2 cotton... Weft - 10/2 merc. cotton from Lunatic Fringe. Sett - 30 epi... woven on my single unit draw loom."
• "Seashore", Edith Brulla
  Midwest Weavers Conference 2005 "Waves of Weaving"
  Plymouth, WI, June 16-18, 2005
• "Snowflake Scarf", Pat Capogrossi,
  Weavers Guild of Greater Baltimore "Exhibit Creative Colors"
  Baltimore, MD, January 8, 2005
• "Amethyst Nights", Sarah Fortin
  New Hampshire Weavers Guild "Bags to Boas and Beyond"
  Peterborough, NH, April-May 2005
  Sarah writes: " 4 - Shafts, 2 beams, loom controlled shirring of horizontal folds.
  Ground warp - 1/25 silk noil, turquoise and grey
  Design warp (top warp) - 1/25 silk noil, antique gold
  Ground weft - 1/25 silk noil, turquoise
  Design weft - purchased, hand painted 2/28 silk and cashmere
  30 EPI per surface = 60 EPI, 15 dent reed, sley at 4 per dent
  I have been playing with weaving in three dimensions using 2 beams with braking systems. Through experience and a "mistake", 1 discovered a method, using loom control, of creating shirring and/or gathering of horizontal, double woven folds."
• "Double Helix Shawl", Bonnie Inouye
  Creative Crafts Council's 25th Biennial Juried Exhibition
  North Bethesda, MD, May 28 - July 9, 2005
• "Square Dance"
  Erika Lewis
  Southeast Juried Fiber Arts Show, Chattahoochee Handweavers, "Golden Threads"
  Athens, GA, May 15-July 15, 2005
  A detail is shown above; to get a view of most of the weaving, click here.
• "Birds of Paradise Silk Scarf"
  Margaret Marshall
  "Woolcraft Annual Exhibition" Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington, New Zealand
  Sept 9 - Oct 1, 2005
• "Blue Twilight", Sarah Pilgrim,
  Association of Northwest Weavers Guilds "Color Me Chroma, Color Me Neutral"
  University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA, August 1 - 7, 2005.
• "Four Seasons (Summer)", Heasoon Rhee,
  Fibers in Paradise: 25th Biennial Conference, Association of Southern California Handweavers
  Escondido, CA, March 9-13, 2005
  A detail is shown above; to get a view of most of the scarf, click here.

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Other winners not shown (alphabetical by last name):

• "Red on Red"
  Mary Bricker Mountain Spinners and Weavers Guild of Prescott, AZ
  Prescott, AZ, Sept 23-Oct 22, 2005
• "Stained Glass Surprise"
  Moira Forsythe
  Intermountain Weavers Conference (IWC) "Fiber Celebrated 2005"
  Durango, CO, July 15-August 27, 2005
• "Dream Coat"
  Sara Goodman
  "Vermont Weaving Then and Now"
  Randolph, VT, May/June 2005
• The prize was awarded to Nicole's work in general. She exhibited many scarves and afghans with images in summer and winter, turned summer and winter and diversified plain weave.
  Nicole Grenon
  Association des Tisserands du Québec (ATQ) Conference
  St-Léonard-de-Portneuf, Québec, Canada, May 27-29, 2005
• "Ron"
  Janet Haase,
  Florida Tropical Weavers
  Lake Yale, FL, March, 2005
• Jitterbug Runner # 7
  Georgia Hadley New England Weavers Seminar, "NEWS IInterlacements: InAndOver"
  Andover, MA, July 21-24, 2005
• "Peacock Shawl", Susan Joy Maturlo,
  Mary Meigs Atwater Weavers Guild "Uncommon Threads - Textiles from the Garden "
  Salt Lake City, UT, March 19, 2005
• "A Weavers Gemstones"
  Roberta McKinney
  Ontario Handweavers and Spinners
  May 13-15, 2005
• "A Ruana"
  Carol Press,
  Springwater/DelRay: "Art by the Yard"
  Alexandria, VA, March 4-20, 2005
• Title Unknown
  Carol Woolford
  Philadelphia Handweavers Guild "Celebration of Fiber"

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.

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