ANNE FIELD has been weaving and spinning since 1962, and for the past 25 years has been teaching regularly in New Zealand, Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States. Her work has been entered in many exhibitions, both in New Zealand and overseas. As an international teacher, weaver, spinner and writer, her work has done much to promote New Zealand fibre craft abroad.

Anne’s published books include Weaving with the Rigid Heddle Loom (1980); The Four-shaft Table Loom (1986), and The Ashford Book of Spinning, also in (1986). This has been a particularly popular book, with many international editions, including Japanese and German translations. The Ashford Book of Weaving was published in 1991 (now out of print) and Spinning Wool: Beyond the Basics, was published in 1995. The Ashford Book of Four-Shaft Weaving, published in 2007, is an up-date of the Four-shaft Table loom book. Collapse Weave: Creating three-dimensional cloth, (2008). Devore for Weavers and Knitters(2010). An up-dated of Spinning Wool Beyond the Basics is due out in October, 2010, and Anne is currently working on Learn to Spin with Anne Field.

For this event, Anne has selected to talk about early weaving in NZ with some Maori weaving included, then move into more contemporary stuff and include some background on her creative development, her weaving and books.