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Resume
Rodrick Owen -
Braidmaker
TRAINING
& RESEARCH
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Educated
in Australia.
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1975
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Retired
from Industry.
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1975
- 78
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Founded
Learning Centre in France.
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1979
- 81
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London
College of Furniture, City & Guilds Creative
Textiles.
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1979
- Ongoing
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Researching
Braids from around the World.
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GRANTS
& AWARDS
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1981
- 82
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Craft
Council & Southern Arts Grants.
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1984
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Winston
Churchill Fellowship to Study Kumihimo in Japan.
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1985
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Crafts
Council Sponsorship Interior Context
Olympia.
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1991
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Southern
Arts Grant, towards organising Anglo Japanese
exhibition Sunrise
in the West.
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PUBLICATIONS
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Author
of Braids: 250 Patterns from Japan, Peru and Beyond.
Examples
of own work appear in three books:
- Interlacing
by J. L. Larsen
- Rugs
& Wallhangings by Dorling Kindersley
- Exotic
Beads by Sara Withers, Chilton Press.
Articles
on braids, for Weavers Journal, Embroidery, and
Shuttle Spindle &
Dyepot.
Beadwork.
Yarnbarn
Video - Japanese Braiding
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COMMISSIONS
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Work
in the collection of: P & A Bakker, Braid Co Ltd, A
& P Lodge, P & L McCartney, M Tada
(Japan).
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MEMBERSHIP
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Braid
Society. Oxford Asian Textile Group, Baltimore Weavers Guild
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TEACHING
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England
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Gt.
Missenden Summer School.
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1983/1984
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London
College of Furniture.
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1984-1992
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Association
of Weavers Summer School.
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1985-1989
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Oxford
Summer School.
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1991
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Braid
Society Taka Dai Workshop.
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1998/1999
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Europe
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Ghent,
Belguim.
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1982
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Copenhagen,
Denmark.
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1991
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Stockholm,
Sweden.
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1994
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Japan
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Tokyo,
Kasei Daigaku (Itabashi).
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1984
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Tokyo,
Bunko Gakuin (Ochanomizo).
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1984
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U.S.A.
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Riverside,
S.W. Fiber Conference, California.
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1991
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Seattle
Weavers Guild, Washington.
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1991/1995
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Convergence
Washington D.C.
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1992
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Textile
Arts Center, Chicago.
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1992
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Fiber
Fanfare N.W. Conference, Seattle.
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1993
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Western
Northern Carolina Fiber Guild.
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1993
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Baltimore
Weaver's Guild, Maryland.
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1993/1999
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The
Weavers Place Baltimore.
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1993/1999
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Mendocino
Art Center, California.
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1994/1995
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Mid
Atlantic Fiber Conference Bucknell Uni: Pen.
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1995/1999
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Beads
and Beyond, Bellevue, Washington. 1995
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3rd
Internatinnal Bead Conference. Washington. DC
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1995
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Lambspun,
Fort Collins, Colorado.
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1996
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Boulder
Weaver's Guild, Colorado.
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1996
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Coupeville
Arts Center, Washington.
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1996/1998
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Brookfield
Arts Center, Connecticut.
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1996/1998
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Harrisville
Designs, N. Hampshire.
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1996
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Yarnbarn,
Lawrence, Kansas.
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1997
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Mid
West Fiber Conference, Canton, Ohio.
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1997
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Westcheste
Weaver's Guild, New York.
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1997
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Convergence,
Atlanta.
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1998
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Marymount
College, Tarrytown NY
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1998
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Connecticut
Weaver's Guild
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1999
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Philadelphia
Weaver's Guild
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1999
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Cincinnati
Weaver's Guild, Ohio
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1999
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Miami
Valley Weaver's Guild, Ohio
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1999
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Arrowmont
School of Art & Crafts
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2000
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Florida
Tropical Weaver's Conference
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2000
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The
Fine Line Crafts Centre, St Charles
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2000
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Convergence
Cincinnati
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2000
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Sarcamento
Weaver's Guild
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2000
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Textile
Arts Council, De Young Museum, San Francisco
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2000
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Australia
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FibreForum,
Mittagong. Sydney, Adelaide, Perth, and
Melbourne.
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1997
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EXHIBITIONS
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England
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Solo
Exhibition - Woodstock Museum, Oxon.
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1981
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Group
Exhibitions, Canterbury,Woodstock, Oxford, Kendal, Cardiff,
Styal, and Peterborough.
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1982-1987
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Chelsea
Crafts Fair.
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1983-1985
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Threads
International Exhibition Aldeborough, Suffolk.
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1985
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Co-Director,
"Textile Arts Festival", Bradford.
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1990
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Director,
Sunrise in the West Anglo-Japanese Travelling
Exhibition. Shrewsbury, Milton Keynes, and
Oxford.
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1991
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Group
Travelling Exhibition, Cornwall.
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1994-1995
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Japan
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Joint
Exhibition with Makiko Tada, Tokyo & Osaka.
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1984
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Group
Exhibition, Tokyo & Osaka.
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1988
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U.S.A.
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Interlacing
American Crafts Museum, New York and Textile Museum
Washington DC.
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1987-1988
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