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Weaving Workshops with Angela Paikea
Weaving Workshops with Angela Paikea
Learn practical weaving methods to create art from recycled plastic and other recycled materials.
We continue our weaving tradition at Blacktown Arts with Angela Paikea weaving with materials found around the home and New Zealand flax from The Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre Weaving Garden.
Join weaver Angela Paikea in this three-part online weaving workshop for both kids and adults.
Making a decorative box out of ribbon
Angela applies a traditional Maori weaving practice and creates decorative boxes out of ribbon.
How to make a headband out of ribbon or string
Continue weaving with Angela as she makes a five-strand woven headband out of ribbon and string.
Bio
Angela Paikea is a self-taught weaver of Maori and Portuguese descent. She is based in western Sydney and works predominantly with New Zealand Flax.
An artist designer and weaving facilitator from Whangarei in the North Island, New Zealand, Angela migrated to Australia with her children in 2012 for a fresh start. While she misses the sea, smell and seafood of her hometown, and its beauty and simplicity, she now enjoys life in Sydney where – if not crafting – she can be found singing, playing guitar, spending time with her children, and laughing joyfully.
‘Weaving Workshops with Angela Paikea’ was published May 2020.
This project is presented by Blacktown Arts and supported by Blacktown City Council and the NSW Government through Create NSW.
