Toronto Craft Alert

FAT has become an institution in the world of Toronto fashion over the past few years. They seem particularly great at mashing up fashion design with other artistic practices in their annual festival’s awsomely diverse programming. Take a look at this call for submissions for their exhibition component this year, which will centre around notions of the body within the landscape…

Call For Submissions
Multi-Arts Festival – |FAT| Arts & Fashion Week ‘fashionSCAPES’ 2012
Produced by Fashion Art Toronto |FAT|

In its seventh year, |FAT| Arts & [...]

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Lovely yarns, plant-based dying, traditional knit patterns, reach-for-the-sky styling – what’s not to like about these gloves by Jessica Rae Gordon? As the mercury drops, your fingers can still stay fancy.

From the Craft Toronto photo pool. You can join, too!

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Around the city, the change of season is certainly sensed in the present tense this week. For those of us not as fond of the colder months, a visit to local screen print artist, Geneviève Jodouin‘s, new exhibition Change of Seasons may be in order. Her 175 sequential figure drawings walk viewers through a year in the city as the urban backdrop changes form and the figure in the foreground changes clothes. Me, I might like to [...]

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Clothing Brand Experiment (best known for their most awesome colour-blocked hoodies), is opening the doors to its holiday Pop-Up Shop tomorrow, and will keep em open all the way until the end of December. In the spirit of all CBE projects, in addition to their clothing line, the Shop will feature the work of 15 Toronto-based makers (Monster Factory, SLO, Julie Sinden & Ella’s Botanicals to name a few) as well as rotating installation window by local artists including Lauren Hall, Caroline Larsen, Braden [...]

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I’m sure I’m not alone in feeling that itch for new fall duds with the days creeping their way towards sweater weather.  If your budget is tight or you are more thrill of the find than off the rack in sensibility, this mega swap event run by nathalie-roze & co. might be just the thing.

Autumn Uber-SWAP
A Big, Fab (used/vintage) Clothing Exchange
Trade your cool cast-offs with 100+ stylish scavengers in Leslieville!

WHEN: Saturday, October 1 · 11:00am – 2:00pm
WHERE: [...]

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No, I am not in Slovenia at the moment (I wish) but I am going through pictures from my spring tour of the Continent and finding some real crafty gems. Ljubljana became one of my favourite cities on the planet from the first moment I set foot there. And it got even more wonderful on this spring visit when I discovered Niti Niti, a small knit boutique and supply store located right on the main canal through town. Carrying the works [...]

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