{"id":1382,"date":"2015-05-22T16:16:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T06:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/?p=1382"},"modified":"2025-03-20T14:37:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T03:37:02","slug":"the-fibre-show-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/the-fibre-show-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fibre Show 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Fibre Show, a much awaited event each year at Blue Knob Hall Gallery has kicked off with great enthusiasm, from a very well attended Opening, and the Fibre Festival run by the Blue Knob Farmers Market on Sat 23rd, this winter show and Festival has proved to be as popular as ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"280\" height=\"373\" data-id=\"1383\" src=\"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_0215.jpeg\" alt=\"Fairy Doll (Needlefelt)\nby Hisako Saito\" class=\"wp-image-1383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_0215.jpeg 280w, https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_0215-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Fairy Doll (Needlefelt)<br>by Hisako Saito<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"180\" height=\"284\" data-id=\"1385\" src=\"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_0213.jpeg\" alt=\"Pum Kin Dress\nby Polly Stirling\" class=\"wp-image-1385\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Pum Kin Dress<br>by Polly Stirling<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"180\" height=\"270\" data-id=\"1387\" src=\"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_0211.jpeg\" alt=\"Dolly Odd Sox (1 of 5)\nby Anthea Moffatt\" class=\"wp-image-1387\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Dolly Odd Sox (1 of 5)<br>by Anthea Moffatt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>With Eric Smith opening the exhibition, music provided by John Hosking and Peter Warne, and dinner provided by Cafe Blue Knob, it was an enjoyable, warmly felt evening where Fibre shone in all its glory on the walls and in the variety of clothing worn by the guests, who often come out to this event in their felted garments, fibre jewellery and more often than not one of Melissa Hume\u2019s or Myfanwy Stirling\u2019s beautiful vests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This annual exhibition shines light on the world of fibre and all its versatility, functionality and beauty, from wool to wood, felting to carving and weaving to stitching; it represents the diversity and practicality of all that is fibre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" data-id=\"1386\" src=\"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_0212.jpeg\" alt=\"Coral Reef-Symbiosis (detail) by Lynda Clark\" class=\"wp-image-1386\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Coral Reef-Symbiosis (detail)<br>by Lynda Clark<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" data-id=\"1384\" src=\"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_0184-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Eric Smith Opening The Fibre Show\" class=\"wp-image-1384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_0184-1.jpeg 350w, https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_0184-1-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Eric Smith Opening The Fibre Show<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Anthea Moffatt\u2019s \u2018Dolly Odd Sox\u201d, a series of dolls, with her iconic images hand painted on to the fabric are a fundraiser for Medecins Sans Frontierre and are a wonderful addition to the exhibition. The Knitting Nannas \u2018yarn bombing\u2019 our verandah posts proves that the fibre arts continues to be a strong expression of the value fibre plays in every part of our lives in all parts of the world, as a protest medium and at the heart of our everyday lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Fibre Show will run from Friday 22nd May to Sunday 12th July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This annual exhibition shines light on the world of fibre and all its versatility, functionality and beauty, from wool to wood, felting to carving and weaving to stitching; it represents the diversity and practicality of all that is fibre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1386,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,33],"class_list":["post-1382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibitions","tag-26","tag-fibre"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1382"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1645,"href":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions\/1645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}