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Pam Hutley is a woman, wife, mother, and daughter. She spends her days spinning, dyeing, knitting and weaving in her studio near Mackay in central Queensland. "I learned to sew, knit, and embroider at my mothers’ knee, but it wasn’t until I had children of my own that I taught myself to weave, spin, and dye. These creative pursuits became linked forever as I spin the yarn, dye it using natural dyes, and weave rugs, saddle blankets and tapestries. Tapestries, though, are my real creative outlet. I place large sheets of paper on my studio wall, and draw, erase, draw, erase, until the black and white cartoon unfolds into a weavable image. Then, using my strong hand spun yarn, I warp my upright pipe loom. After weeks and months of weaving, the black and white cartoon has become cloth, a tapestry story aglow with colour and movement." |
