The mission of the Blue Ridge Handweaving Show is to encourage and support both amateur and professional handloom weavers at all levels and to increase public awareness of their work.
To view pictures of the other winners in the 2004 show , click Blue Ridge Handweaving Show Winners Gallery. To see the complete list of winners, with links to pictures of their work, click Winners. To see the complete catalog of the show, click Catalog.
To see all the entries in the show, click Blue Ridge Handweaving Show Gallery Page 1
Betty Carlson won the HGA Award with "Morning Glory", a wall hanging, shown at left in full.
Description:
Wall hanging, resisted, dyed, discharge printed.; Techniques:
Taiten shibori dyed; Materials:
Rayon; Other:
Crepe/twill weaves.
A detail is shown below.
Photographs courtesy of Sue Reynolds and Helen Kehoe
The 2004 Blue Ridge Handweaving Show had two venues: the Asheville show, October 7-29, was held in the John M. Crawford Gallery in the Walker Arts Building at The Asheville School, 360 Asheville School Road, Asheville, NC. Winning entries were then shown from November 1 - December 3 at The Fine Arts Center, 1613 West Washington Street, Greenville, SC.