This year's Artist Open Studios marks a decade of showing work in the rambling Whanganui building otherwise known as "Bricksticks".
Weaver Mere Keating has been exhibiting there since the beginning. Working with flax, she uses traditional methods learned from kuia in the Far North.
"I had actually taught myself to weave mostly out of books from the library," Keating said. "And they were kind of smiling to themselves and having a wee cackle."
When she asked why they were laughing they told her they could tell she learnt to weave from a book.
"When you learn to weave from a book, it's mirror fashion. From then on I started to weave properly and I've never really looked back."