POSTCARDS FROM THE ROAD: Joseph Schneider Haus in Kitchener Ontario
by jen
Stop two on my Ontario craft road trip was Kitchener-Waterloo, and a definite highlight was visiting the Joseph Schneider Haus Museum and Gallery, a Pioneer Village-eque spot in downtown Kitchener. The central building is a Georgian farmhouse built by one of the area’s first pioneers, Joseph Schneider, a Pennsylvania-German Mennonite c. 1816. The rooms are filled with gorgeous woven Menonnite blankets and quilts, linen feedbags, super heavy duty functional ceramics, hand woven baskets, wool spinning wheels, and fellows stitching up cotton sausage casings for an upcoming butchering bee. The museum also hosts a Folk Artist-In-Residence program “designed to support the efforts of local artists and artisans working in traditional crafts and trades”. So cool.
Tags: Heritage · Kitchener · Spinning · Textiles
Filed under: Postcards from the Road,TCA on the Road
1 Tara B. // Feb 28, 2012 at 11:43 pm
BUTCHERING BEE? Wow…that’s a funny visual.
Great photos, Jen! This looks like such an amazing journey through the world of Ontario craft…lucky you!
2 jen // Feb 29, 2012 at 8:48 am
agreed. lucky me!!
3 erin // Mar 22, 2012 at 4:24 pm
Jen! When where you at Schneider Haus?? I work there, but I must have missed you!
4 jen // Mar 22, 2012 at 5:44 pm
i’m gonna say november 17th? or 18th. what an amazing place to work – sad to have missed you!
5 erin // Mar 23, 2012 at 2:52 pm
oh, during the week then! I work weekends. It is a great place to work; and sometimes I even get to handle those fabulous textiles! Your photos are just lovely; great to see the “same old” things in a new light.