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SeaFlowerSpins 🇦🇺 @seaflowerspins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Progress on my tapestry inspired by Gamcheon Village in Busan, with a nod to traditional Korean textiles. Using handspun yarn (mostly scraps) and commercial tresses. Fibres include Shetland, silk, North Ronaldsay, alpaca, merino, Border Leicester & Herdwick. #australiantapestry #handspunyarn

A woven tapestry in progress. The tapestry itself is woven on a Schacht loom and features blocks of colour in architectural shapes, with the edges of the piece done in stripes that align with colours in traditional Korean textiles. Behind the tapestry is a cartoon that is guiding the weaving, and a printout of the textile colours for reference.
The tapestry is unfinished, with more block shapes and landscape details still to weave.

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SeaFlowerSpins 🇦🇺 @seaflowerspins.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I was blown away to find out I was named a finalist in the craft+design canberra 2026 creative challenge, for my daily tapestry weaving to the theme of dissent. I feel honoured to be included in an impressive lineup of finalists, and I congratulate them and the prize winners.

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SeaFlowerSpins 🇦🇺 @seaflowerspins.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Boys are getting to know each other with a bit of friendly bitey-face 😊

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SeaFlowerSpins 🇦🇺 @seaflowerspins.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Went for a run with my best boy this afternoon. As a rescue who was badly neglected after the babies arrived in his previous family, the advent of a new pup has him a bit anxious and edgy. Nice to see him relax out on the trail. 🖤🤍

A smiling middle-aged woman hugs a dog out in the bush. In the background is a track and several eucalypts against a blue sky. The woman wears sunglasses, a pink headband and a black shirt; the dog is a black and white border collie.

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SeaFlowerSpins 🇦🇺 @seaflowerspins.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

All the pieces I made for the #cdccreativechallenge26 from 1 to 21 July 2026. I connected them with a raised fist in black and yellow threads + knitting needles for my favourite dissenters, the Knitting Nannas. Handspun yarns with supplementary tresses. #australiantapestry #handwoven #dissent

A collection of tapestries from the final 2 weeks of the craft+design Canberra creative challenge.
Top row: glitch (a bird in silhouette with glitch lines represented in irregular hatching); spark (a purple-headed matchstick); static - a spark leaping to a point); unbind (a dark-faced featureless girl with one braid, the rest of her hair unbound).
2nd row: ferment (a foaming gear mug); misfit (three figures in grey looking at a vivid red figure); gather (a small basket full of greens).
3rd row: freedom (a fluffy cloud against a blue sky); emerge (a green shoot emerging from dark soil); noise (blocks of white and dark with regular hatching to represent noise).
Bottom row: artificial (a brain in a jar, a comment on AI); provoke (a hand poking a bear); grace (an open mouth and the word ‘tame’ referencing Grace Tame); quack (a mallard duck in front of a Victorian cobalt medicine bottle). In the middle of the combined tapestry is a raised fist worked in yellow and black knots at the front of the tapestry - the fist is holding a black and a yellow knitting needle, referencing the Knitting Nannas.

Tapestry pieces for the first week of the craft+design canberra challenge. Top row: whisper (a bot whispering disinformation); play (random tapestry elements including pick-and-pick and eccentric weaving). Bottom row: UNCEDED (a sunrise in the colours of the Australian Aboriginal flag); smudge (smoke drifting around a tree); justice (the trans flag); bloom (representation of Bob Katter and his crazy ‘let a thousand flowers bloom’ doorstop speech).

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SeaFlowerSpins 🇦🇺 @seaflowerspins.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Day 21 | SPARK #cdccreativechallenge26 One spark is all it takes to set the world on fire. Handspun 2 ply yarns with supplementary tresses. #australiantapestry #handwoven #dissent

A small tapestry of a red match-head against an orange backdrop.

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SeaFlowerSpins 🇦🇺 @seaflowerspins.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Day 19 | STATIC #cdccreativechallenge26 A spark leaping. Handspun 2 ply yarns with supplementary tresses. • #australiantapestry #handwoven #dissent

Tiny tapestry - a jagged white line leading to a star to represent static leaping. Star and line are woven against a predominately blue background shot with yellow, green, purple and red.

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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

A bio-inspired robot crosses paths with a real insect , 400 million years of evolution face to face with human engineering.

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SeaFlowerSpins 🇦🇺 @seaflowerspins.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Day 18 | UNBIND #cdccreativechallenge26 I am my mother’s savage daughter, The one who runs barefoot, Cursing sharp stones - I am my mother’s savage daughter, I will not cut my hair, I will not lower my voice. -Sarah Hester Ross Handspun yarns with tresses. #australiantapestry #handwoven #dissent

A tiny tapestry- against a silky blue-green background, a featureless dark face with rich long hair in brown with yellow and orange highlights. A braid curls around the face on one side.

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SeaFlowerSpins 🇦🇺 @seaflowerspins.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Day 17 | MISFIT #cdccreativechallenge26 Misfit or neurodivergent? I thought I was one for most of my life but it turns out I’m the other. Handspun yarns with supplementary tresses. • #australiantapestry #handwoven #dissent

A tiny tapestry showing four amorphous human-like figures against a white background. Three of the figures are grey; the fourth, which is smiling with one arm raised, is bright red.

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SeaFlowerSpins 🇦🇺 @seaflowerspins.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Day 16 | FERMENT #cdccreativechallenge26 It starts unseen, bubbles to the surface and builds to a head. Ferment and foment are not so far apart in meaning. Handspun 2 ply yarns with supplementary tresses. #australiantapestry #handwoven #dissent

A small tapestry of a pale green glass beer mug on a purple background. The mug is full of beer which is foaming over the top of the glass.

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SeaFlowerSpins 🇦🇺 @seaflowerspins.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Day 15 | MEND #cdccreativechallenge26 Creative visible mending challenges the waste of fast fashion. Vertical lines in tapestry create deep channels that need to be sewn up invisibly - I made them visible mends. Handspun yarns. #australiantapestry #handwoven #dissent

A small abstract tapestry - three green and purple-toned blocks with deep channels between them. The blocks are stitched together with crosses of orange yarn.

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SeaFlowerSpins 🇦🇺 @seaflowerspins.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Day 14 | GATHER #cdccreativechallenge26 Little watercolour now translated into tapestry. Handspun 2 ply yarns with supplementary tresses. #australiantapestry #handwoven #dissent

A tiny tapestry - a yellow basket on a blue background. The basket is full of green leaves and purple fruits.

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SeaFlowerSpins 🇦🇺 @seaflowerspins.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Day 13 | NOISE #cdccreativechallenge26 Flooding the zone. Handspun 2 ply yarns with supplementary tresses. #australiantapestry #handwoven #dissent

A tiny tapestry representing noise. It features white and dark triangles, with hatching drawing the shapes together. The dark yarn is multicoloured dark shades of purple and green with occasional pops of bright blue and green.

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SeaFlowerSpins 🇦🇺 @seaflowerspins.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Day 12 | EMERGE #cdccreativechallenge26 A seeding emerges from the soil, full of promise and tenacity. But whether it is good or bad - that’s all a matter of perspective. • Handspun 2 ply yarns with supplementary tresses. • #australiantapestry #handwoven #dissent

A tiny tapestry of a green shoot emerging from dark soil against a pale background.

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SeaFlowerSpins 🇦🇺 @seaflowerspins.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Day 11 | FREEDOM #cdccreativechallenge26 Perhaps, when everything costs, an act of dissent can be to free your mind. In meditation I was taught my mind was the sky, and my thoughts clouds which drift by. Handspun 2 ply yarns with supplementary tresses. • #australiantapestry #handwoven #dissent

A small tapestry of white and grey clouds against a blue sky - I was going for a Studio Ghibli vibe.

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SeaFlowerSpins 🇦🇺 @seaflowerspins.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Day 10 | QUACK #cdccreativechallenge26 A duck and a Victorian medicine bottle. Isn’t the English language grand? 😊🦆 Handspun 2 ply yarns with supplementary tresses. • #australiantapestry #handwoven #dissent

A small tapestry depicting a mallard duck no front of a blue antique medicine bottle.

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SeaFlowerSpins 🇦🇺 @seaflowerspins.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Day 9 | GRACE #cdccreativechallenge26 Grace Tame - a courageous young woman who fought back against her abusers, would not smile when powerful men thought she should, and who speaks up for those who have no voice. Handspun 2ply yarns + supplementary tresses. #australiantapestry #handwoven #dissent

A small tapestry - the background is pink and orange toned, and at the bottom in blue is the word TAME. Above the word is an open lipsticked mouth.

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SeaFlowerSpins 🇦🇺 @seaflowerspins.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Day 6 | PLAY #cdccreativechallenge26 Play and finding joy in play is a subversive act when big money interests want you angry and unhappy and dissatisfied so that you continue to want and consume. Handspun 2 ply yarns with supplemental tresses. #australiantapestry #handwoven #dissent

Small free-form tapestry using techniques including meet & separate, pick & pick, and eccentric weaving. Colours are pinks, purple, yellow and green.

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SeaFlowerSpins 🇦🇺 @seaflowerspins.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Day 5 | WHISPER #cdccreativechallenge26 This was a dark fantasy riffing on bot farms and the corrosive whisper of algorithm-targeted, AI-created disinformation. Handspun 2 ply yarns with fine @austapestry tresses. #australiantapestry #handwoven #dissent

A tapestry depicting a little red bot constantly whispering AI-driven disinformation represented by blue rectangles - the background transitions from a soft purple to a more corrosive orange.

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SeaFlowerSpins 🇦🇺 @seaflowerspins.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

#cdccreativechallenge26 Day 4 BLOOM ‘…people are entitled to their sexual proclivities. Let there be a thousand blossoms bloom... But in the meantime, every 3 months, a person is torn to pieces by a crocodile in north Queensland.’ Bob Katter MP, 2017 #australiantapestry #handwoven #dissent

Mini Bob Katter tapestry, 4x7.5cm. A stylised white-haired figure in blue trousers, white shirt and paler blue tie. A slim red-petalled flower grows in front of the figure which stands against a green background (to represent north Queensland crocodiles). Bob Katter is a ‘colourful’ (ie incoherent oddball) conservative Australian politician who represents an electorate in North Queensland in the Australian Federal Parliament.

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SeaFlowerSpins 🇦🇺 @seaflowerspins.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

#cdccreativechallenge26 Day 3 | JUSTICE Trans rights are human rights. Handspun 2 ply yarns with fine commercial tresses. #australiantapestry #handwoven #dissent

A tiny tapestry depicting the trans flag in blue, pink and white. A dark line travels through the flag colours.

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SeaFlowerSpins 🇦🇺 @seaflowerspins.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

#cdccreativechallenge26 Day 2 SMUDGE A small smudge fire for your billy, smoke wreathing the trees at dawn. Magpies herald the day as you drink strong sweet tea, while the smoke stings your eyes. Peace. 5cm x 5cm handspun 2ply yarns with fine tresses. #australiantapestry #handwoven #dissent

A tiny tapestry - a dark brown shape like a tree trunk rises through a white ground, with a drifting grey shape stretching across the piece to represent smoke.

To the left are partial shapes in red and yellow - this is yesterday’s tiny piece nestled against today’s.

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SeaFlowerSpins 🇦🇺 @seaflowerspins.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I’m doing a creative challenge in July. Day 1 | UNCEDED #cdccreativechallenge26 Another day living on unceded land. 5cm x 5cm Handspun 2ply yarns with fine tresses. #australiantapestry #handspun #handwoven #australian #craft

A tiny tapestry in colours inspired by the Aboriginal flag. A dark red hill in the foreground shot with yellow threads; a dark sky speckled with red and yellow; a shape behind the hill in yellow that may be a rising sun.

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SeaFlowerSpins 🇦🇺 @seaflowerspins.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Teeny tiny swatch - this is handspun laceweight mulberry silk. #australian #craft #handspun 🧶

A small knitted swatch. The yarn is white laceweight mulberry silk knitted on 1.25mm needles. It’s lying on a wooden table, and an Australian 5 cent coin (approx. 19mm in diameter) is placed on top of the swatch to show how fine and small both the knitting and the yarn are.

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SeaFlowerSpins 🇦🇺 @seaflowerspins.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Finished test octopus, knitted in handspun yarns. Glad I made a test one, because I made plenty of mistakes, which I choose to call learning opportunities 😊 Next one will be handspun silk! #octopus #showusyourknits #australianhandspinnersandknitters 🧶

A knitted octopus in pink and green yarns rests on a cup set on a wooden floor, with a green couch in the background. The octopus’s body and the top of its tentacles are knitted in 2ply handspun merino and tencel in a deep vivid pink; the underside of the tentacles is knitted from a soft green handspun blend in 3ply.

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SeaFlowerSpins 🇦🇺 @seaflowerspins.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

A so-far single-tentacled octopus. And even that single tentacle needs to be ripped back, as I made an error no amount of blocking will fix 🫩 #showusyourknits

A knitted octopus in progress - its body is complete but only one tentacle is finished. The body and top of the tentacle are knitted in a handspun pink Cheviot and tencel blend, while the contrasting underside of the tentacle is a handspun green wool blend. The octopus has small blue safety eyes and the circular needle used to knit the body is looped underneath it. It is resting on a grey fabric upholstered bench.

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SeaFlowerSpins 🇦🇺 @seaflowerspins.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

There’s no bird quite like an Australian magpie - smart, curious, bold and occasionally terrifying. Their little red eyes look hard and full of evil intent, but they sing like angels. Win their trust and their whole family will embrace you.

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SeaFlowerSpins 🇦🇺 @seaflowerspins.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Saw the wonderful 5th National Indigenous Art Triennial: After the Rain at the National Gallery of Australia on the weekend, the exhibition’s last day. These four pics are a glimpse that don’t really do the whole justice. Moving and thoughtful works.

Kalben-aw story place of Wuku and Mukam the flying fox by Alair Pambegan (Wik-Mungkan people)
A room where the walls are painted in broad bands of red, black and white. Suspended from the ceiling and a tree fixed in the middle of the room are hundreds of cylindrical objects painted in red, black and white, representing flying foxes.

Wire seabirds against a green wall, made with reclaimed ghost nets.

Beautiful Ulkumanu (old woman), after the rain 2025
By Yarrenyty Aritere Artists, Mparntwe/Alice Springs, Northern Territory
A soft sculpture of a tall woman with a happy smile, made from recycled wool blankets, wool thread, synthetic fibres, synthetic polymer paint, found paint tin, used sewing machines

Stitched blue and white birds on a wall above text which reads:

Werte!
I am Ulkumanu from the desert with many cultures and many languages.
I am honoured to do this farewell blessing. To whisper you through from one side to the other.
After the rain brings so much bush tucker and wildflowers and hope for the animals and for the People of new life. It brings happiness for the children and even the camp dogs feel relaxed and happy after the rain.
As you pass by me now just feel what you are feeling from this beautiful exhibition and let that be a memory to stay with you when you step out and off you go. I am staying here, and you are leaving. Farewell.

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SeaFlowerSpins 🇦🇺 @seaflowerspins.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

In my current sample, I’m experimenting with some of the shapes and colour elements I may use in my planned tapestry. Still playing with texture, especially in that green section.

A tapestry sample in pink, white, blue and green, exploring shape and texture in preparation for a larger piece.

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SeaFlowerSpins 🇦🇺 @seaflowerspins.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Not my city, but I like it - Wednesday night in Melbourne 😊

A view of Flinders Street Station, Melbourne, at night. The station entrance is bright in the foreground with people coming and going, while the sandstone structure of the Victorian building looms above, its green domes and cupolas accented by yellow lights within.

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SeaFlowerSpins 🇦🇺 @seaflowerspins.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Starting the next sample. In the last, I used handspun Border Leicester as the base for the white, knowing it wouldn’t pack down as much as the ATW yarns. However, I was also playing with texture, and the bulkier handspun yarn shows it more clearly. Next is back to handspun mothers with ATW tresses.

Three small woven samples on a tapestry loom, in shades of white, blue and pink, each separated by a dark line of woven wool. The samples are experiments in shape, colour and texture. Another sample has been started above the first three, and four wooden tapestry bobbins with brass tips are suspended in the warp above the tapestry work.

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SeaFlowerSpins 🇦🇺 @seaflowerspins.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

The first sample wasn’t working from the moment I started, but better results from the second. Sadly though, the second has none of my handspun in it. More thinking to do. This is why we sample! 😊

Two narrow pink, white and blue tapestry samples aiming for gradation from blue to pink.
The first (lower) sample is triangular and the colours aren’t distinct.
The second (top) has more depth of colour and the colours atent bundled against a white core - it’s more what I’m looking for.
A band of mottled orange sits below both samples - it’s part of the tapestry ‘floor’ that helps to establish the warp.

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SeaFlowerSpins 🇦🇺 @seaflowerspins.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Mulberry silk, spun laceweight. Lovely stuff - I plan to knit a little octopus from it 🐙

30g of handspun laceweight yarn in shades of blue and green, spun from mulberry silk. The yarn is nestled in a ceramic coaster on a black background, with a curl of the silk fibre above it.

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SeaFlowerSpins 🇦🇺 @seaflowerspins.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

A blank canvas - my little Mirrix loom warped up and ready for some sampling for my next tapestry project.

A small tapestry loom warped with cotton seine twine. The warp is about 20cm wide, and there is a small woven strip at the bottom of the loom as set-up. The loom is on a busy desk with bobbins and other tools behind it.

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SeaFlowerSpins 🇦🇺 @seaflowerspins.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

This is my biggest tapestry so far. My edges are still wonky but I’ve had good advice on how to manage that for the next piece. Despite its wonky edges, I’m super proud of this. Second pic shows a comparison to the first attempt at the same subject. I’m amused they both ended up the same shape. 😂

A tapestry depicting a grove of birches in a temperate rainforest. The piece is woven from Shetland and merino yarns in shades of green and blue, with the 15 trees in double weave in n white and shades of pale brown.
The tapestry’s edges are crooked as a result of beginner technique.

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SeaFlowerSpins 🇦🇺 @seaflowerspins.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Welcoming new friends - it’s taken many months of patience for the local magpies to trust us 😊

A black and white Australian magpie standing on a distressed wooden bench - the bench is on a shaded porch against a brick wall. The bird is looking directly at the camera.

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SeaFlowerSpins 🇦🇺 @seaflowerspins.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Brought my art journal along for a fortnight in Seoul with my daughter.

Squid in a bucket at Gwangjang Markets - the bucket is lined with a blue tarp and the squid are shades of cream and brown.

Oriental magpie in black and white against a background of grey concrete paving near the National Folk Museum of Korea

Roofs of the Gyeongbokgung Palace - terracotta and yellow paint colours against dark wood beams, and a hazy blue sky behind.

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SeaFlowerSpins 🇦🇺 @seaflowerspins.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

I’ve got my birches tapestry to a stage where the next tree is ready to go in - but it will have to wait. I’ll be working on nothing but a simple knit for the next few weeks while I’m travelling with my daughter. • #australianhandspinnersandknitters #canberraspinnersandweavers #australiantapestry

My studio space in a small sunroom built off the back of the house. A white desk sits against a brown brick wall. A tapestry loom and tools sit on the desk, and there is a work in progress on the loom. A rack of colourful cones of yarn is mounted to the left of the desk.

Progress on my birches tapestry in shades of green and brown, with trees picked out in cream and buff colours. Some tapestry bobbins hang from the work. Marked lines can be faintly seen on the warp, showing where the next tree shape will be placed.

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SeaFlowerSpins 🇦🇺 @seaflowerspins.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Haven’t been sleeping well - last night after only 2 hours of sleep I decided up and doing was better than lying awake in bed. Another 3 hours disappeared in quiet creativity that ended with the first big tree. • #australianhandspinnersandknitters #canberraspinnersandweavers #australiantapestry

A woven tapestry in progress - the piece is being woven side to side so the pic has been flipped 90° to show its proper orientation. The tapestry shows a grove of birches, reduced to their essential elements, inspired by a grove I found during a hike last year in Ardgour, Scotland. The trees are white with buff shadows, and stand in a landscape of lush greens and browns, with blue sky behind.

The picture also shows the sides of the tapestry loom, with various tools (including tapestry bobbins and a silver fork) and yarn waste scattered on the workspace.

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SeaFlowerSpins 🇦🇺 @seaflowerspins.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Slow progress - 20cm completed and I’m a little concerned there’s not enough contrast on the trees, their shaded sides are getting lost. Considering options! • #australianhandspinnersandknitters #canberraspinnersandweavers #australiantapestry

A tapestry weaving in progress - shades of green, blue and pondscum with lines of white and brown. The tapestry is being woven side to side, and the picture shows the cotton warp threads and the bobbins holding the coloured wool weft.

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