Yesterday, we (Vancouver Island Surface Design Association) hung an exhibition in the new Art Gallery at Cedar Hill Recreation Centre, VictoriaThis is what we started with What the space will look like for the next monthHere is a quick look around the walls… …filled with over 60 works (minus the ladder) A most interesting collection of contemporary textile […]
Read More...More rescued wool embroideriesI used the 2 in the top left… …to make ‘Handwork 7’ To make ‘Handwork 8’, I used the one in the top left… …and part of the one in the top right. These 3 works will be hung in a gallery tomorrow.The Vancouver Island Surface Design Association has a month long […]
Read More...Hand washing some of my thrift store finds and successful bids at auction houses.2 fine wool shawls, one with beautiful, woven, floral border Wool blanket – well used but laundered carefully over its life time so no sign of fulling. Piece of old silk velvet in blue and gold – a little fragile but washed up well. A […]
Read More...A friend gave me this lovely blanket. She has a much larger one displayed on a wall and it looks magnificent.We are both curious to find out any information about this style of blanket.It is woven in long strips then sewn together. The fibre is coarse, like goat hair. The yellow and red colours here […]
Read More...While in New Brunswick we stopped in at Briggs & Little, Canada’s oldest woolen mill. This is their new mill, built after a fire destroyed the original. They still use vintage machines… …and continue to make the same products, well loved by knitters and weavers throughout North America.
Read More...On the last day of our residency in The Banff Centre, we all drove back to Calgary in the morning. Ingrid & ReBecca weren’t flying home until the next day so once we had unpacked the cars, we walked over to the Alberta College of Art + Design campus. Fortunately we caught the Fibre Department’s […]
Read More...Our tour group watched as Mashru cloth was woven with a pit loom Skeining the hand dyed rayon & cotton thread The double woven cloth is starched to make it smooth & shiny
Read More...I didn’t finish telling you about the master weavers who make double ikat silk textiles. Here father and son (an architect) work side by side … on a traditional silk sari pattern that they can weave 8″ to 9″ per day. This sari took 5 people 6 months to make. No wonder the family members […]
Read More...A visit to a natural dyer of Australian merino wool. A 2-year old indigo pot. Pit loom weaving.
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