Toronto Craft Alert

This is kinda crazy news – the Textile Museum is now on Ebay!

At the moment they have listed five embroidered Central Asian panels originating from the late 19th to early 20th century as ‘Buy it now’ offers. All proceeds from the sale of Shop merchandise will benefit the TMC’s exhibitions, collection and educational programming. You can view all the TMC’s Shop merchandise here: http://bit.ly/ulQujV.

These pieces are also sold in the TMC museum shop so you can drop by at 55 [...]

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If you have retail dreams but are not ready to take the plunge on opening your own shop, this may be just the thing. Please contact Eva directly with any questions at eva@tnkvintage.com .

Established retail business in Toronto is looking for partners to help expand their selection of handmade accessories. Tomorrow Never Knows is looking for up to 3 designers or artists to be featured in their shop on a temporary to full time basis. This would offer you the [...]

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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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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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Just got a heads up on this great-looking space opening at the end of the month a mere block away from me (what luck!), right across from Trinity Bellwoods Park. Miracle Thieves will be a craft and design retail space as well as a workshop and community art space. See below for all the deets about their upcoming day-long opening celebration.

Miracle Thieves is a new and exciting multi-purpose creative space. Aside from a curated retail component which exclusively houses [...]

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Those of you reading from outside of Toronto will be excited to learn that the workroom has launched an online pop up shop.  Karyn has put together a collection of the most requested items, plus some special things special for the shop, like the adorable bauble purse frames pictured above. Hop on over to the webshop to check out thier great selection of Japanese Dress books, sewing patterns, embroidery floss, and even workroom-made [...]

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