Toronto Craft Alert

Spring at the Textile Museum of Canada!
Go to http://www.textilemuseum.ca/ to plan your visit or to learn more.

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Fashionably Wrapped: The Influence of Kashmir Shawls
To May 30, 2010
Curated by Natalia Nekrassova
Fashionably Wrapped presents examples of dazzling and exuberantly beautiful shawls, details this garment’s shape, style and symbolism throughout history and discusses the impact of fashion trends and industrialization on traditional craft practices. Follow along as Fashionably Wrapped traces the origins of the shawl from the noble courts of India, where finely woven pieces [...]

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I know we have some readers from BC, so I thought I’d share some of these great-looking events happening at the Vancouver Museum, spotted on magpie & cake.

DIY @ MOV: A Night of Social Crafting
January 21, 2010 / 7:00 PM

Come celebrate the creativity and community of the growing DIY craft, art and design movement in Vancouver.

Generously sponsored by OPUS and Blim, there’ll be materials and workshops in a range of art and craft media from paper to yarn. Workshops (listed below) will begin at 8pm. There will also [...]

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CRAFTIQUE – An Exclusive Handmade Experience

Bata Shoe Museum . 327 Bloor St W (at St George)
November 13, 14 & 15
Friday 2 -5 . Saturday 10 – 9 . Sunday 10 – 5
Free Admission to the museum with donation of a pair of socks, canned good or pay what you can
http://www.batashoemuseum.ca/events/index.shtml

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Kaleidoscope
Antique Quilts from the collection of Carole and Howard Tanenbaum

NEW EXHIBITION AT THE TEXTILE MUSEUM OF CANADA
September 23, 2009 to March 21, 2010

Curated by Max Allen
Join us for the opening reception: Wednesday September 23, 6:30 – 8:00 pm; remarks 6:45 pm

TORONTO – Kaleidoscope presents 43 dazzling quilts collected by Carole and Howard Tanenbaum. These quilts are remarkable pieces of art – full of beauty and rich in history.

Through each quilt’s breathtaking workmanship and intricate compositions, Kaleidoscope will lead you on an [...]

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Suzanne Swannie is a Halifax-based designer and weaver who creates functional textiles, tapestries and large architectural installations for private and public environments. She also weaves pictorial tapestries and is known for unique fabric constructions such as the gallery installation Repassage. Both the woven works and the constructions display the “Danish Modern” principle of repetition of modular units as a means of generating surfaces and structures with a typical emphasis on rich colour harmonies.

See her weavings, tapestries, and textile installations in Danish Modern.

July 22, [...]

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Well this looks like a ton of fun …

Film Screening: 24 Stitches Per Second

Curated by Allyson Mitchell

Wednesday June 24, 2009

Textile Museum of Canada

Frames move through a film projector at a rate of twenty-four per second. See the handiwork and labour of textile art translated into film in this program of short films curated by Allyson Mitchell.

Program:

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