You are welcome to come and visit Grampians Texture.
Open for your enjoyment

Traders: Saturday 21 to Thursday 25 February from 8.30 am – 5.30 pm.
Halls Gap Centennial Hall.

This is in the main street of Halls Gap next to the Visitor Information Centre. They will be selling a range of fabrics, fibres, books, kimonos, buttons and much more to tempt the textile artist.

Some of the traders will include:

Beautiful silks - will have for sale natural based fabrics, yarns and fibres – silk, cotton, linen and wool - also stock dyes.  They will be demonstrating throughout the week, and are happy to bring your order to theGrampians.www.beautifulsilks.com and accept mail orders and all credit cards.

Fibreworks whose specialty is hand dyed fibres and yarns for textile artists. Their specialty is in natural products including wool, mohair, silk, cashmere and alpaca. The range of 20 colours reflects the landscape, flowers and bird life of Australia. They will have all of the fibres for felting classes.

Old Rosemount Quilts – selling patchwork fabrics, ribbons and kits. The fabrics are bright, contemporary and a little different.

The Button Lady – with vintage and hand made buttons made from bakelite, glass, horn, bone, shell, wood and metal. Threads including Irish Linen and Mop Cotton, Sequinned and Beaded Motifs, Vintage Swiss and French laces, leather and fur pieces and all sorts of haberdashery surprises.

Artisan Books (Sat, Sun Mon) selling beautiful art and craft books,

TAFTA Books – (trading Tue, Wed, Thur only) visit TAFTA bookshop! The Australian Forum for Textile Artist is bringing a great selection of Textile titles to the Grampians.

Spiral Dyed and Raes Rags supply a dyed rainbow of products for all your fibre art needs. Merino, silk, fabrics, threads and other more exotic goodies such as feathers and paper are available. In addition they supply paints, printing blocks, beads, shivas and a few more hard to find products.

Tombo (trading Sat, Sun, Mon) selling Kimonos at $15 and $35 each, lots of Japanese silks, cream and coloured, Japanese silk obi at $20 and natural and dyed hemp from Japan and China

Saturday 20 Feb

Grampians Texture Twilight Makers Market 5 pm – 6.30 pm

Students and tutors selling their interesting and exotic art and crafts– over 25 stalls. This should be a busy evening as the market is being advertised extensively as well as locally. The market will be in the marquee next to Halls Gap Centennial Hall. Grampians Estate Winery from Great Western will have a lovely selection of wines for sale.

Sunday February 21

3 pm – 4.30pm open classroom at Halls Gap Centennial Halls. Students from all the weekend classes will bring their work in to the central area to be viewed.

Thursday February 25

3.30 – 4.00 pm open classroom at Halls Gap Centennial Hall. Students from all the 4 day classes bring their work in to the central area to be viewed.

Exhibitions

Birds of a Feather-Wartook Artist Studio, Wartook.

An exhibition of work including textiles and other mediums, by local artists. Open daily (except Monday) 10 am—5 pm. 20 Feb—14 March.

Cara Mia—Kookaburra Restaurant, Halls Gap.

Work by Val Robinson form Mildura. This exhibition combines textiles, found objects and painting exploring themes about pioneer women's’ stories from the Sunraysia.

Open restaurant hours until 19 March -12 April 2010.

Coming together - Gap Winery 4113 Ararat Halls Gap Rd.

An exhibition of work by local felt making group “Just Felt Like it”. Open daily 10 am—5 pm until 19 March—12 April 2010