Toronto Craft Alert

Robyn lays down The Knitted Mile in Dallas, Texas (2008)

Greetings, readers! Welcome to the first installment of a short series of interviews with a few of the talented craftspeople taking part in this year’s International Craft Biennale in Cheongju, Korea, which opened just a few days ago. There are 8 Canadians taking part in the festivities this year– one of them being Robyn Love, who was invited to the Biennale to create an ambitious site-specific installation. Robyn is an [...]

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Met a woman on the train who told me all about her Aunt who loved crocheting doilies. She told me my work was beautiful. I realized I couldn’t fake it, pulled out all the work I’d already done and started all over again this time using instructions.
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Grant Heaps is traveling about the US on the train stopping in cities and crocheting in public places.

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Photo courtesy of Robyn’s blog; http://myfairisle.blogspot.com

This just in from NFLD/NYC fibre artist extraordinnaire Robyn Love…a call for submissions of knitted or crocheted squares to put towards a massive piece of public art for the 2011 Cheongju International Craft Biennale! Robyn’s work is well known and loved for her understated and often profound takes on public art. The following text was scooped up from a recent post on her blog, My Fair Isle. Read on for [...]

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We have all been there, stealing surreptitious glances at a stranger’s knitting across the subway aisle.  Or perhaps you have been the one subtly ogled as you crochet hook bobs and weaves its way to your streetcar stop.  All coyness goes out the window at the annual TTC Knitalong (KAL), which brings together knitters and hookers (aka crocheters) alike from all over the GTA, Ontario and beyond for a day of yarn related tourism, shopping, and chatting it up with fellow yarnheads.  All funds raised [...]

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Bioplastic Buttons by Stephanie Phillips

For those of you who don’t know, Subtle Technologies is a really exciting annual festival of art and science that gathers artists, scientists, innovators, technologists, engineers, designers and the general public to discuss and exhibit work that intersects such disciplines. A few weeks ago, I noticed their website was up and was thrilled to see that there is some really interesting crafty programming attached to the festival this year. One piece [...]

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Behold Sponsor News for April!  (Also, don’t forget that the OOAK Show is on now until Sunday)

Image courtesy of the Textile Museum of Canada

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Silk Oasis on the Silk Road: Bukhara
New Exhibition at the TMC Curated by Natalia Nekrassova
March 23 – September 25, 2011
Silk, a precious fibre from China, was for centuries a connecting thread between regions and cultures. Silk Oasis on the Silk Road: Bukhara speaks to the influence of a single site within [...]

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