Flax Weaving for Children of all Ages – Te Raranga Harakeke mā ngā Tamariki Katoa

3 Dec 2024

I’m very pleased to announce that my latest book “Flax Weaving for Children of all Ages – Te Raranga Harakeke mā ngā Tamariki Katoa” is now available. The book has a collection of sixteen weaving projects, with variations, which I’ve found to be popular for using in short workshops — for children and young adults, for people with different abilities, for older people and for any weaver when there’s only a little time for weaving and find their fingers are itching to weave. The book includes some basic te reo Māori kupu / words used in flax weaving, which gives people the opportunity to learn some weaving terms while taking part in weaving. As the title says, it’s for everyone, not just children. There’s a child in all of us! 🙂

Buyers of my previous books have commented positively on their easy-to-follow, step-by-step illustrations beside the written instructions. You can see a link to these comments under each blog post I’ve written when I’ve published a book. More illustrations from the book are shown on the web page About the book. The samples in the book are woven with New Zealand flax — as a sustainable and biodegradable resource, it’s a perfect weaving material for a world with too much plastic. If this is not available to you, any natural or manufactured material that can be made into long thin strips can be used for most projects, including palm leaves, strapping, bark and paper.

If you buy the book, do post a comment below if you can see how it might be improved, or post a question if any of the instructions are not entirely clear. Also if you have any photos of your weaving based on projects from this book, I’d love to see them.

The book can be purchased directly from me, along with my other books, Weaving Flowers from New Zealand Flax, Weaving Baskets, Backpacks, Boxes and Other Projects, Fun and Functional Flax Weaving and Weaving a Large Container from New Zealand Flax, either singly or in a set of 3, 4 or 5 of the books, (which incidentally makes for savings on postage charges), from my online shop. I do hope that people find this book useful and even inspiring. Happy weaving!

© Ali Brown 2024.

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