Shaun the sheep and woven friends

We attended the opening of a quilting and basket making exhibition on Saturday at the Straithnairn Gallery.  For reasons that I didn't identify the basket makers had also decided that each exhibitor would also weave a sheep!

Our favourite was this form of the TV star Shaun the sheep.  (Incidentally I was having trouble remembering how to spell the name: Shawn and Sean were my picks, but both were incorrect.  Then daylight dawned about the genesis of the name  - Shorn!)
On asking the artist (our friend, Jean Egan) about the materials the white areas are bobble wool and the black is draught excluder!  See this close up!
There were a range of other very clever examples using all sorts of media.


My second favourite work is left until last because it simply is not a sheep.  It does remind me however of the dingoes of Lin Onus.

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