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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, one year's membership in Complex Weavers and a copy of the Compilation of Newsletters, Edition One.

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

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

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.

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.

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


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

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

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

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.

Marjie Thompson wove the first streamers and assembled the award ribbons.

See the award winning works in the
Award Galleries

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Update: July 13, 2008