Annabel Taylor

1937, Lucky Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada–2006, Deep River, Ontario, Canada

Annabel Taylor was a founding member of the Prince Albert Spinners and Weavers Guild and a former student of Margreet van Walsem and Ann Newdigate.

Ten Shades of Sheep is a prize-winning example of her interest in natural dyeing and spinning, techniques which she often taught. “The challenge of using a simple structure, a limited palette of colour, pure materials and classic elements of carpet design,” Taylor writes, “have involved me in a process which is simple and direct, a process which has been very satisfying.”(1)

1. Annabel Taylor, “Artist’s Statement,” in Annabel Taylor: New Works in Fibre (Prince Albert, SK: The Little Gallery, 1993), n.p.