Competitions
These pictures capture the past six years competition winners. The Guild awards three prizes each year - 1st prize is the Armada Plate, 2nd prize is the Shepherd's Crook and the Morton Casket is awarded as a prize for originality.
All competition entries have to demonstrate at least one of our core skills and they are judged by an external expert.
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| Armada Plate & Morton Casket Winner: Mohair Boa |
Shepherds Crook Winner :Double Weave Shawl |
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| Armada Plate Winner: Woven Harvest wall hanging and cushion |
Shepherd's Crook Winner: Harvest Knee Rug | Morton Casket Winner: The Last Sheaf | |
| 2008 - Competition theme: Second Time Around | ||
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| Armada Plate Winner: A piece of hand-woven fabric recycled into a bread basket liner | Shepherd's Crook Winner: A cushion cover woven using remnant yarns | Morton Casket Winner: A scarf woven on a riggid heddle loom, using sock yarn to get the effect of ikat weaving |
| 2007 - Competition theme: Hand Bags & Glad Rags |
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| Armada Plate Winner: A hand woven scarf. | Shepherd's Crook Winner: A handbag knitted with bamboo yarn, hand dyed with indigo | Morton Casket Winner: A handbag made from hand dyed wool and combining an ninkel woven band for the strap and patchwork knitting for the bag body. |
| 2006 - Competition theme: Inspriation from art |
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| Armada Plate Winner: Hand dyed, hand knitted socks based on colours in a Monat painting | Shepherd's Crook Winner: A scarf hand woven using yarns dyed to reflect a Monet painting | Morton Casket Winner: A hand woven bag using yarns and design based on a Lowrey painting |
| 2005 - Competition theme: Natures' Colour Palette | ||
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| Armada Plate Winner: Hand knitted socks using hand spun, hand dyed yarns | Shepherd's Crook Winner: A woven tapestry | Morton Casket Winner: A box covered with tapestry woven faces, each representing a different season with the night sky on the top face and the earth on the bottom face. |