tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35513595775753398322024-03-05T16:56:55.697-08:00Line Dufour: tapestry and textilesLine Dufourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09105886448203918477noreply@blogger.comBlogger155125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3551359577575339832.post-31769773004352093952019-09-04T12:48:00.003-07:002019-09-04T12:48:29.804-07:00Portrait of a Marriage<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Conscious
and unconscious memory is activated by our associations with cloth, stirring
our senses and emotions.<b> ‘Portrait of a
Marriage’</b> is a textile assemblage book within which a poem reveals the
intimate emotions and thoughts that textiles evoke. This oeuvre references the
textile books of Louise Bourgeois. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5496; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">I awaken to the scent of your body <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5496; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">in the sheets and your pillow<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5496; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">in the clothes you wore
yesterday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5496; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">still unwashed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5496; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">My hand caresses the creases <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5496; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">of where you lay<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5496; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">I inhale slowly and deeply
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<span style="color: #2f5496; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">absorbing the redolence <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5496; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">that still summons my love.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5496; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">I sort through your clothes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5496; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">where your absent body still resides<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5496; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">in the stains and in the folds<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5496; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">in the way your elbows and knees<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5496; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">have shaped them. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5496; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">I leave them there, absented<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5496; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">your body still lingering <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5496; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">longing that once again<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5496; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">you will inhabit
them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5496; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">molecules and cells <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5496; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">imbedded between the threads <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5496; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">are all I have of you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Line Dufourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09105886448203918477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3551359577575339832.post-6058877130747774262019-09-04T12:37:00.000-07:002019-09-04T12:37:13.973-07:00Branded<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Branded.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">51cm x 47cm. cotton canvas, garment and domestic textile
tags. machine stitched, embroidered. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Though garments and household
textiles we purchase may be recyclable and environmentally sustainable, the
tags attached to them are not. Many rank others according to the fashion brands
they purchase and acquire. This is an assemblage of people with small budgets
and no extra money for the luxuries of designer products.<o:p></o:p></div>
<br />Line Dufourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09105886448203918477noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3551359577575339832.post-14206925169095124512019-09-04T12:34:00.004-07:002019-09-04T12:34:44.762-07:00Threadbare<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Diana Scott participated in the community component of Worn Worlds installation. The absence of maternal love and affection in her
life was revealed as she shared the story of her 1927 Patsy Ann doll. The many outfits made for this doll outlived Diana's mother and Grandmother, but not Diana's pain from the absence of love and affection towards her as a child. The years fray and deconstruct the dress as it does the toxic hold these unloving
relationships had upon us.</div>
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Referencing Louise Bourgeois' textile works, and finding from them a source of inspiration, I played with useful textiles through the lens of art, and the eyes of an artist. It alludes to the repetitiveness of our daily domestic tasks. </div>
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<br />Line Dufourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09105886448203918477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3551359577575339832.post-63591584717834729112019-09-04T11:52:00.001-07:002019-09-04T12:13:32.993-07:00At Loose Ends<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">a series of textile sketches. Dryer sheets, denim work
pants, cheesecloth, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">machine stitched, hand mended.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">28cm x 21.5cm.</span><br />
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years fray my edges<br />
wear me out in places<br />
each thread pulling away<br />
undoing the fabric of my life<br />
time ripping and shredding<br />
each thread a moment<br />
a memory , an experience<br />
an emotion, a parting<br />
an anger, a tenderness<br />
a resentment, a kindness<br />
these threads woven together<br />
the warp and weft of what I was<br />
and am no longer<br />
now that time has<br />
unravelled<br />
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<span style="color: #2f5496; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">copyright Line Dufour 2019</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;">Our personal
narratives are pieced together by fragments of our past including the textiles
that have accompanied us along the journey, imbuing them with memory and
feelings. Embedded in cloth are our stories, our histories, our identities and
our cultures. Cloth arouses thoughts of
warmth, comfort, protection and intimacy but also paradoxically, confinement,
containment, fragility, and impermanence.
So much of women’s labour is invisible, impermanent and unseen. Domestic
work is consumed, disintegrates, dissolves, disappears, is forgotten, is
invisible…so many of these hours regarded as insignificant and inconsequential.
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;"><b>Landscapes</b> (below)<b> </b></span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;">consists of four textile assemblages that paint the
canvas of a domestic life. Constructed
of textiles collected over the duration of the artist’s life, these
‘Landscapes’ utilize everyday and mundane textiles that are part of domestic
chores - endless menial tasks most often done without remuneration or praise,
often not seen by others, and usually only noticed by a small and intimate
circle. These textiles are silent witnesses, archaeological evidence of a life
and its relationships. Each piece takes years to create and has left these
markings ꟷ the wearing, the fraying, the stains and the rips. These
‘landscapes’ are the art that forms an ordinary life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The Terrain Travelled:</b> linen dishcloth, vintage flour bag, denim construction work pants, 'art' class apron, Queen of Hearts playing card: stitched</td></tr>
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<b>The Daily Terrain
of Living</b>. 101cm x 81cm. cotton, denim, dryer sheets, clothing tags. upcycled
fabrics <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>The Landscape of
Everyday, </b>104cm x 78cm<b>. </b>Linen, cotton, denim, found objects<b>. </b>upcycled textiles<b>. </b>2019<b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b><u>Dream Fields</u></b> 86cm x 79cm<b>. </b>cotton pillowcase and bed sheet, dryer sheet, plastic netting,
window screening, garment tag<b>. </b>2019. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br />Line Dufourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09105886448203918477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3551359577575339832.post-87758652030653806682019-09-04T07:49:00.001-07:002019-09-04T07:49:10.713-07:00Finding the Words<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Finding the Words. 101cm x 65cm. Dryer sheets, transfer, cotton cheesecloth. Handstitched, embroidered<br />
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The various roles society demands that women assume create fragmentation and division of self. In women’s roles as mother, sister, aunt, daughter, friend, professional, employee, employer, it often seems that too many people want pieces of you, demand more of you than you can give. All this creates a disconnect with the self and threatens well-being and wholeness.<br />
With each art work created is an entry point into myself, uncovering me and making myself visible to others. This is especially true of Finding the Words, where my full-length portrait is curtained by the text and painting, nebulous and numinous. My silent voice makes itself heard. Text plays a more prominent role in my life, at times appearing to eclipse the visual art I am creating. The textile collage mirrors how words and images shape my thinking process. Slowly they emerge to form strands of words that are then stitched into a cohesive whole. My artistic process parallels my awkward, tedious and meticulous writing journey. Each word is carefully examined for flaws and tested for its quality and authenticity.<br />
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Finding the Words (poem)</div>
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<span style="color: #2f5496; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">I vanish between the spaces of the words<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5496; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">I disappear into the blanks<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5496; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">I recede into the silences<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5496; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">I can only find my creativity in the quiet places<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5496; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">I live in the place where there are no words<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5496; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">fueled only by the quiet <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5496; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">punctuated by various sounds<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5496; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">in this space </span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5496; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">my awareness wanders </span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5496; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">into nooks and crannies<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5496; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ideas and </span><span style="color: #2f5496;">thoughts</span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5496; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">into<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>memory and
emotion <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5496; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">where love is stored <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5496; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Each word that comes to me a pearl <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5496; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">formed in the shell of my silence<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5496; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">and like the pearl <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5496; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">clear luminescent smooth and hard<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5496; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">each word a bead strung upon a strand<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f5496; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">to make me whole<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Clothes are our autobiography and our identity. Through them, we “can trace the connections of love across the boundaries of absence, and of death, because cloth is able to carry the absent body, memory, genealogy, as well as” the characteristics of its materiality.<br />
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In his article Worn Worlds: Clothes, Mourning and the Life of Things, Peter Stallybrass tells us he lost his friend Allon White to cancer. When Allon died, Stallybrass came into possession of Allon’s favourite jacket. Stallybrass wore it to a presentation where suddenly, he was overcome with emotion and could not continue. He recalls,<br />
“…I was inhabited by his presence, taken over…..he was there in the wrinkles of the elbows, which in the technical jargon of sewing are called ‘memory’. He was there in the stains at the very bottom of the jacket….above all, he was there in the smell”.<br />
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He goes on to tell us that clothes and textiles that are part of our everyday life, receive us and yield to our shape, absorb our odours, scents and perspiration, wearing in the places where our bodies exert more friction. When parents, children, close friends, and lovers die, their clothes still hang in their closet “holding their gestures, both reassuring and terrifying, touching the living with the dead.”<br />
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Textiles are witnesses and recorders of our daily lives. Our skin, the food we eat and other particles become imbedded within the intersections of the threads. They absorb scents from our immediate environment and those that emanate from our bodies. Our fingers recall their feel, surfaces, textures, and materiality. The sensors in our fingers like threads dressed on the loom of our mind, unspool our feelings and our re-memorying of a person or events. <br />
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the persons who sold it and disposed of it. </div>
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about the person who wears it</div>
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each day and the event it was worn for</div>
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stories for the adventures they accompanied us on</div>
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stories of the people met while wearing them</div>
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stories of the relationships that they witnessed.</div>
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each stain, each rip, each frayed seam</div>
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commemorating like a marker</div>
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our memories </div>
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their only inhabitants </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Emanuel Jaques<br /><br />Art Gallery of Burlington<br />1333 Lakeshore Road, Burlington<br />Opening Reception: November 30 2017 17h-19h<br />On exhibition until January 28 2018<br /><a href="https://artgalleryofburlington.com/">https://artgalleryofburlington.com/</a><br />Part of a group exhibition entitled Holding By a Thread, featuring the work of Lorraine Roy, Kelly Bruton, Carole Baillergeon and Line Dufour.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">
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Our personal narratives are pieced together by fragments of our past and that includes the textiles that has accompanied us along the journey. Cloth is imbued with memory and feelings. Embedded in cloth are our stories, our histories, our identities and our cultures. Conscious and unconscious memory is activated by our associations with cloth, stirring our senses and emotions. Cloth arouses thoughts of warmth, comfort, protection and intimacy but also paradoxically, confinement, containment, fragility, and impermanence. </div>
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The entire installation is rooted in embodied cognition and speaks of the act of remembering as a mental, emotional and physical matrix. Social identity is explored through the process of creating this body of work, re-creating each likeness, in a way that presents each victim as an icon, to be loved and revered, echoing the manner in which martyrs are elevated in Christian biblical traditions. Making the image as a material presence is a narrative act though they are not fixed and factual accounts. Enmeshed within the subjective embodied experience, is a forensic curiosity formed in large part through the research of each story, weaving together the partially glimpsed, yet profoundly felt. </div>
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Re-Collection references the Shroud of Turin, and each shroud depicts the face of a child or young woman killed by a sexual predator in Ontario. The horrified shock and disenchantment I felt 25 years ago when I first learned of the fatal assaults on Kristen French, Leslie Mahaffy and Tammy Homolka has never waned. Since then, I’ve been haunted by the need to pay tribute to these individuals who left this life under such tragic circumstances. At the time of their occurrence I felt immobilized, not knowing how to proceed in expressing this tribute to the victims and their families. As the years went by, it was impossible not to peer into the Pandora’s Box of these recurring traumatic social and cultural behaviors. Oliver Sachs and T.S. Eliot would call this long incubation period necessary to one’s creative process. It is a time when one is consciously and subconsciously, - learning, gathering, reorganizing, reconfiguring and synthesising information, methods, and techniques. </div>
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The term ‘shroud’ refers to a textile that” covers or protects an object”, usually a deceased human body. Historically, shrouds were hand woven in a 3/1 herringbone twill or plain weave and with a natural fibre such as cotton, wool, or linen, - an inexpensive easy way to produce cloth. In contrast, I created a series of jacquard woven shrouds. Historically, jacquard woven textiles were available only for the powerful and wealthy to command respect, and denote status. In using these patterns, I transfer these associations to each of the portraits, adding more potency to the homage. </div>
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The shrouds have a surreal quality and could be faces glimpsed in a dream. Memory is made visible and the viewer’s memories are stirred and recalled as faces appear before us like apparitions. The clearness of their features are dissolved by the overlaid jacquard pattern, alluding to the veil which I will return to in a moment. In close proximity to the shroud, it appears as a patterned textile. As one moves further away, the face emerges. This disintegration alludes to how memory works - sometimes clear, sometimes vague and blurry. As memory fades, it leaves one with an imperfect recollection of the event or person. This body of work also explores how memory creates dissonance in its incompleteness and its unreliability in apprehending the truth or reality fully, which is further intensified by the limitations of perception. </div>
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A veil is a semi-transparent textile through which we can see that which is curtained behind it. It is often used in religious ceremonies to honour a religious object, space or person. It is frequently worn as an article of clothing or accessory, usually by a female and is often intended to cover part of the head and/or face. The veil is an object imbued with the sacred and the profane. The idea of holiness, sanctity, piousness, purity, humility and submissiveness, is often associated with it, but it is also associated with being alluring. A veil can disguise or it can reveal; It can arouse, or denote status. The veil is often referred to metaphorically in various religions, as the curtain that separates us from the departed. </div>
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The collection highlights the disorientating effects of impermanence and loss, and brings to light the transformative effects of our subjectivity and numinosity. Feeling our way out of our dark place and our confusion, we are led to enlightenment that expresses itself in compassion, action and creativity. In turn it ignites the impetus to contribute in some way, to positive social transformation. Mary Sarton’s poem captures these thoughts succinctly and it reads: </div>
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Help us to be the always hopeful gardeners of the (heart and) spirit</div>
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A special thanks to the Ontario Arts Council ( <a href="http://www.arts.on.ca/grants">http://www.arts.on.ca/grants</a>) , Montreal Centre for Contemporary Textiles, Suzanne Chabot, Adrien Landry, Lheila Palumbo without which this project would not have been possible. Thank you too, to the Fondazione Lisio in Florence for creating the braille cards. </div>
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Toronto Star Article by Robert Cribb may 25 2016</div>
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<a href="https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2016/05/25/child-abduction-and-murder-data-paint-chilling-new-portrait.html">https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2016/05/25/child-abduction-and-murder-data-paint-chilling-new-portrait.html</a></div>
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<b>Upcoming Exhibitions: </b><br />
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<b>Craft Council of BC</b>, 1386 Cartright Street, Granville Island, Vancouver, BC<br />
March 26-May 5 2016. Co-created by 197 people, 310 contributions, 20 countries. More entries are arriving each day.<br />
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<b>Centre d'Action Culturelle de la MRC de Papineau</b><br />
20 August - 7 October 2016<br />
3, rue Principale, Saint-André-Avellin,<br />
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<b>San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles</b><br />
520 S 1st St, San Jose, CA 95113, USA<br />
January 20-April 16 2017<br />
Opening Reception: January 29 2017. 1-4pm<br />
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<b>Art Gallery of Burlington</b><br />
1333 Lakeshore Rd, Burlington, ON L7S 1A<br />
2017 - dates undetermined<br />
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In the meantime, I continue to<br />
collaborate with Erin Lewis on<br />
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You can go to the Facebook page for the<br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/MatrixErinLine/">https://www.facebook.com/MatrixErinLine/</a>.<br />
So far I've woven fibre optics, linen<br />
with paper. Next on to wire. Erin is<br />
working on the tech details. She recently<br />
discovered that she was accepted into the PhD program at Boras University in Sweden.<br />
I will be sorry not to have her around.<br />
Maybe I'll have to go to Sweden?<br />
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<br />Line Dufourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09105886448203918477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3551359577575339832.post-83126627572043101252015-11-26T09:03:00.002-08:002015-11-26T09:04:26.474-08:00Exploring New Materials and Processes<br />
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A few weekends ago , I took an electronics course at interAccess. The instructor was a very good speaker and explained the theories and the principles of electronics very eloquently, however, my practical knowledge was not greatly expanded and hoping that other experiences will fill that deficit. I am learning more about this area because of my recent forays into incorporating assorted materials, technologies and new media into woven textiles. It has been very satisfying for my creativity and I am finding this path enchanting. I am collaborating with the new media artist, Erin Lewis.<br />
I just finished weaving the a large fiber optic panel. Erin is helping in working on the finishing at Toronto Weaving School. Next, we'll be 'connecting' it for illumination. You will be hearing more about our ventures together.<br />
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Earlier this month, I was thrilled to be invited by the Textile Department Head, Rachel Miller, as a guest instructor at Sheridan College, to share my body of work, and to teach students how to design for weaving.<br />
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The jacquard woven piece, Alicia, was accepted into an exhibition, Fiber Art VII, held at the Sebastopol Center for Art, in California. I call this series my Shroud series, and each cloth depicts the face of young girl killed by sexual predators. If you want to read more about the project go to the previous blog page: <a href="http://tapestryline.blogspot.ca/2015/10/re-collection.html">http://tapestryline.blogspot.ca/2015/10/re-collection.html</a><br />
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The international tapestry installation, Fate, Destiny and Self-Determination, co-created by 193 people from 20 countries, and composed of 285 submissions, will be exhibited in Vancourver, British Columbia in March 2016. It is not too late to make a contribution. If you are interested, contact me at linedufour.tapestry@gmail.com.<br />
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Recently, my jacquard woven piece entitled "Alicia" was accepted into Fiber Arts VII, to be held at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts in California. It will be exhibited from October 22 - November 28, 2015. The opening reception is Friday, October 23 between 6-7:30 pm. </div>
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"Alicia" is part of my Re-Collection series that I have been working on. Each piece woven is a shroud for a young girl or young woman, killed by a sexual predator. Each shroud is jacquard woven and I am looking for ongoing funding to support this project. It is the first time this shroud is being exhibited, and it means a lot to me that it is making its maiden voyage out into the world, to be seen, and to not be forgotten. </div>
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dissolves the clearness of the features of the face, apparition like and haunting.
In close proximity to the shroud, it appears
only to be a patterned textile. As one moves further away the image comes into
focus. This disintegration alludes to
how memory works - sometimes clear, sometimes vague and blurry. As memory fades,
it leaves one with an imperfect recollection of the event or person. Memory is
described as “the process in which information is encoded, stored and
retrieved”. Similarly in jacquard
weaving, information is encoded and stored in the punched cards and software and
then retrieved as the treadle is pushed and released. The image also alludes to
patterning found in textiles, created by
the circular clusters of dark and light points which form patterns of negative
and positive space, associating it to the pattern of these societal behaviors." <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Videos that you might find interesting: </b><br />
Rebecca Mezoff and Barb Brophy talking about James Koehler: <a href="http://rebeccamezoff.blogspot.ca/2015/07/the-james-koehler-videos-from-denver_24.html">http://rebeccamezoff.blogspot.ca/2015/07/the-james-koehler-videos-from-denver_24.html</a><br />
Teaching: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S19yrJlR2ac">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S19yrJlR2ac</a><br />
Colour: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6ukOr5f3WY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6ukOr5f3WY</a><br />
Weaving as Meditation: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCjBsn_jEGg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCjBsn_jEGg</a><br />
Distinct Style: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiatDVZP_Co">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiatDVZP_Co</a><br />
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Debbie Harris let us know about a commemorative tapestry for John Lennon. <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/watch-john-lennon-commemorative-tapestry-unveiled-on-ellis-island-1.3174247">http://www.cbc.ca/news/watch-john-lennon-commemorative-tapestry-unveiled-on-ellis-island-1.3174247</a><br />
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Moonrain Centre <a href="http://www.moonrain.ca/">http://www.moonrain.ca/</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">EXHIBITIONS</span></div>
Fate, Destiny and Self-Determination: an international tapestry installation<br />
<a href="http://tapestryline.blogspot.ca/2015/08/a-thrill-for-lifetime.html">http://tapestryline.blogspot.ca/2015/08/a-thrill-for-lifetime.html</a><br />
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Ramses Wissa Wassef tapestries on display in Oakville, Ontario<br />
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Textile Art exhibitions in Italy<br />
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Carlos Coelho recently emailed me expressing his desire to learn tapestry. In some email exchanges he mentioned that he was from Brazil and was inspired by tapestry weavers in his home country. These were some of the names he mentioned:<br />
1- Genaro de Carvalho<br />
2- Kennedy Bahia<br />
3- Jacques Douchez (French-Brazilian)<br />
4- Burle-Marx<br />
You can find many works searching for their names on Google Images and visiting the website of the "Passado Composto" gallery in São Paulo: http://passadocomposto.com.br/<br />
Also, sometimes instead of searching for "tapestry", you can also search for its equivalent word in portuguese "tapeçaria" to improve your results in websites not translated to English.<br />
These are the artists that sparked my interest in tapestry and I would like to learn with you how to design similar tapestries.<br />
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<br />Line Dufourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09105886448203918477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3551359577575339832.post-64415005169465607902015-08-06T05:38:00.004-07:002015-08-06T05:38:39.064-07:00Fate, Destiny and Self Determination at Regis Universtiy, Denver, Colorado<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Fate, Destiny and Self-Determination/le Sort, le Destin et l'Auto-determination: an international tapestry installation</b> exhibited at the Doyle and Margaret Hartman Gallery, Dayton Memorial Library, Regis Universtiy, Denver Colorado. August 2015. All of these pictures document this exhibition as well as the reception. </div>
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Some of the shapes contributed to FD&SD. </div>
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Rebecca Mezoff's tapestry, Emergence 1, woven under the guidance of James Koehler. </div>
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Tapestries by Aneesha Parrone, and shapes contributed by FD&SD participants. Recognize yours?</div>
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On the right, a tapestry by David Johnson, along with more shapes contributed to the FD&SD installation. More information about David and his tapestry ventures </div>
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RECEPTION SUNDAY AUGUST 2 2015</div>
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VERNISSAGE DIMANCHE 2 AOUT 2015</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Left to right: Aneesha Parrone (co-curator) and me (Line Dufour). </span></div>
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Aneesha curated all the other tapestries as part of the FD&SD platform. </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Left to right: Sarah Swett, Line Dufour and Alex (Susan) Marriott. </span></div>
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Here is a blog post by Sarah Swett on the weekend of the opening which coincided with a workshop she was giving and in which I participated: <a href="http://www.afieldguidetoneedlework.com/blog">http://www.afieldguidetoneedlework.com/blog</a>. To see more of Sarah's work go to her website at <a href="http://www.afieldguidetoneedlework.com/">http://www.afieldguidetoneedlework.com/</a></div>
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Left to right: Rebecca Mezoff, Sarah Swett, Line Dufour and Debbie Harris</div>
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Summer Larson and Victoria Stone</div>
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Foreground left to right: Barb Brophy, Margaret Sunday and husband, Pete. </div>
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Background left to right: Sarah Swett, Line Dufour, Mary Colton and Rebecca Mezoff</div>
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Cheryl Nachtrieb (owner of The Recycled Lamb, Golden, Colorado) and Sarah Swett reading over the names of all the contributors. </div>
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Shapes by Melanie Siegal, Emoke, and Erin Lewis. Tapestry by Celine Grigore</div>
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I’ve just returned from Golden, Colorado from setting up the exhibition, Fate, Destiny and Self Determination: an International tapestry installation at the Doyle and Margaret Hartman Gallery situated at Regis University. Aneesha Parrone invited me to bring the installation to this venue, and assisted and co-curated the exhibition. While this was a plan we had made at least a year ago, about 2 months prior to its confirmed date, I discovered that Sarah Swett was to give a tapestry workshop at The Recycled Lamb, also situated in Golden. I had already tried to lure Sarah to give a workshop through the Toronto Weaving School but she had declined, as she is apprehensive about travelling. I recognized the rare opportunity it was to be under her tutelage and that one could not be sure if such an opportunity would arise again, so I signed up for it. It seemed so serendipitous that she would be there while I was setting up the exhibition! Debbie Harris, a friend who has been taking my weaving classes for many years, also joined me and off we went for our incredible weaving adventure!<br />
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As a teacher, Sarah is animated, dynamic, effusive and vibrant and this comes through in her tapestries. Throughout the tapestry workshop, Sarah talked about how and from whom she acquired her weaving techniques and practices. She constantly referred to the several instructors she has had: Archie Brennan, Susan Martin Maffei, Mary Lane, Jean Pierre Larochette and Yael Lurie. From these experiences, and from relentless tapestry weaving, Sarah distilled her own tapestry weaving techniques and approaches, based on what worked best for her. We all benefitted not only from Sarah’s teaching, but also that of all the other teachers she has studied with.<br />
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Waves of quiet, then waves of animated conversation between participants and with Sarah ebbed and flowed throughout the four days. She gave students constant feedback and support and addressed all the topics we presented her with. Her self-awareness, mindfulness and responsiveness created a stimulating environment in which to practice the techniques she discussed and encouraged us to undertake.<br />
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Many things struck me about Sarah’s approach to tapestry weaving. Sarah works spontaneously almost all the time, continuously making intuitive decisions as she weaves her tapestries. She works from a black and white drawing the size of her tapestry, and the colour choices only reveal themselves as she weaves. Her weaving of weft is not formulaic, nor does she become complacent by relying upon a prescribed image where all is predetermined at the outset. She emphasizes that her weaving practice is about being in the moment, and along with that, the struggles, or what she calls her ‘microdramas’ play out as she weaves - an assortment of tensions created by constant decision making, and in this way, remains connected to her inspiration which in turn, makes her tapestries inspiring. Her main message to aspiring tapestry weavers is to “trust your intuition”.<br />
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As though tapestry weaving is not already a lengthy and time consuming process, Swett also spins the bulk of her yarn, both warp and weft, and in addition dyes them with natural dyes. Her passion for tapestry weaving and the yarn she spins is intense and unabating. What is also clear is that Swett has given herself with abandon to her spinning and tapestry weaving. <br />
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What makes Sarah's work especially distinctive is her fertile imagination which forms her own aesthetic, and brings to that her own authentic and genuine self, undisguised and searingly honest. Her joy emanates from all she creates. There are distinguishing elements that are repeated in Sarah’s tapestries – little coloured boxes that often form frames around the tapestries and sometimes find their way into the tapestry’s image. Slits are ubiquitous, as well as her sense of humour.<br />
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With each series, Sarah establishes a set of parameters that will present new technical challenges. Looking at the several series that she has created ( on her blog <a href="http://www.afieldguidetoneedlework.com/">http://www.afieldguidetoneedlework.com/</a> ), you will be able to observe what some of her challenges have been. Her blog also documents her process and progress. Like herself, it is delightful, fun, witty and intelligent.<br />
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I enjoyed weaving tapestry with other tapestry weavers who respected tapestry as much as I did. It was a pleasure getting to know them, one of which I had already been acquainted with on the internet - Rebecca Mezoff, herself an accomplished tapestry weaver who studied with James Koehler. This was my first time weaving tapestry with other tapestry weavers, and it was an energizing and stimulating experience. It has left me raring to get going on my next series, and better able to technically address the issues that will arise while I weave them.<br />
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Recently a Picasso sold at auction for a record price - about $182 million. As you know, Picasso developed a distinctive and recognizable style, as did many well known artists of this period like Monet, Turner, and in Canada, A Y Jackson, and the Group of Seven. These are artists that the general public are familiar with.<br />
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In the tapestry world there are tapestry artists whose work I recognize instantly: Barbara Heller, Jane Kidd, Marcel Marois, Sarah Swett, Rebecca Mezoff, Kathe Todd Hooker , Archie Brennan, and Thoma Ewen. What distinguishes each artist? What makes their work have impact? To me what comes through is a clear sense of who one is, and this shapes the aesthetic and practice that defines them. In each of their tapestries, they are telling you something of who they are, something very personal. Personal values, perceptions and points of view are conveyed, as well as consistent aesthetic and colour choices, which reveals to the viewer a pattern in the persons work, practice and visual representations. These repeated elements create a coherent and unified body of work, and come to define the artist's style.<br />
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TEx@ATA: Over the Sea, Under the Sky:<br />
Contemporary Danish Tapestry<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Marianne Poulsen, 2000, haute-lisse, cotton warp, wool, linen, silk, metal threads, 200 x 250 cm, (photo by Jan Djenner)</span></div>
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Visit our latest Tex@ATA online exhibition!<br />
'Over the Sea, Under the Sky' features works by contemporary Danish weavers produced during the last 15 year. The exhibition is curated by Ulrikka Mokdad, weaver and art historian. "It has been my intention to curate an exhibition of tapestries that relate to the Nordic landscape and seascape and to their connected history and myths. The artists represented here are united by their respect for the integrity of weaving, but there the resemblance ends. Some of them reflect their subject matter in potent realism, others let the woven surface blossom in vibrant natural lyricism and others compress emotional experiences into subtle symbols."<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Monique submitted these two small (above and below) tapestries as part of her OHS Tapestry Unit, to obtain her Master Weaver Certification through the Ontario Handweavers and Spinners.</span></div>
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America, tapestries were also being created, and certainly by 3000 BC, </span><span lang="EN-US"> </span>Egyptian burial sights<span lang="EN-US"> </span> such as in the tomb chambers of Beni-Hassan show tapestry weaving activity <span lang="EN-US">based on drawings and inscriptions </span> on walls of linen being spun and the loom being prepared. </div>
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There are accounts in the Old Testament of the Bible that the Hebrews also wove tapestries. The Old Testament talks about 3 kinds of weavers; the weavers of plain weaves, the weavers of colour, and the ‘art’ weavers. Eventually, the Egyptians, Mesopotamians, Hebrews, Phoenicians and Greeks came under the domination of Imperial Rome. The Latin word for tapestry is derived from Greek and so it has been assumed that the Greeks taught the Romans how to weave tapestries. Stories in Greek mythology illustrate also that tapestry weaving existed. The most comprehensive description of ancient tapestry is given around 43 BC by the poet Ovid in his Metamorphosis in which he describes the battle between Arachne and the goddess Minerva. From the earliest onset of the practice of tapestry weaving, tapestries were designed and woven by weavers and this was a standard practice until the start of the Renaissance, about 1400s onwards, where it became common for an artist to design the painting (cartoon or cartouche) to be translated into tapestry. It is not until the twentieth century that the weaver and the artist are the same person creating the tapestry once again. </div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Dear Line,<br />....Shortly after you sent me the shapes to weave, I heard that my husband’s cousin had been diagnosed with lung cancer. I have dedicated the weaving to her. Felicity Munn, from Montreal, Canada, has just lost her battle with cancer. She died a few days ago. I remember her as a warm, lively, slightly irreverent, funny and caring person. Flis’s initials, F M, have been woven into the pieces.<br />I do not have a website or blog.</span></blockquote>
Historically, the role of tapestry changes over the course of time, but for many centuries, the role of the great tapestries of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, were to tell a story, such as the Apocalypse tapestries in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Angers</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">France</st1:country-region></st1:place>, or the grand victories of some great leader (usually royalty). The images also illustrated stories from mythology, and from the Bible. In addition to illustrating the great political events, achievements and morality stories, they served as insulation for cold castle walls. The word tapestry in French is ‘tapisserie’, which is the word used today for wall paper! Tapestry became so prominent in its appeal that in <st1:place w:st="on">France</st1:place> the concept of factory emerges to ‘manufacture’ tapestries to keep up with demands. So why exactly did tapestry’s popularity wane over time? With technical developments in pigments (for painting), painting superseded tapestry as pictorial ornament because of it being of lesser cost, and took less time.<br />
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When tapestries first started being made, the weaver was also the artist/designer. Many examples of tapestry found from between the earliest examples (2000 to 3000 BC) to before the Renaissance continued this practice. During the Renaissance Art Period, professionally trained artists were brought in to create the cartoons for the huge tapestries of the period. The weaver served only in the technical execution of the tapestry. Presently, both traditions continue. The latter being more prevalent in Europe and Australia. </div>
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One place that tapestry still has a thriving practice is in the UK. There is West Dean in Chichester England, and you can study tapestry intensively as a summer short course and/or as part of your university studies. The have a tapestry studio affiliated with it which you can arrange to visit. <a href="https://www.westdean.org.uk/CollegeChannel/FullTimeCourses/TapestryandTextileArts.aspx">https://www.westdean.org.uk/CollegeChannel/FullTimeCourses/TapestryandTextileArts.aspx</a></div>
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Another thriving tapestry institution is Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh. "Established in 1912 by the 4th Marquess of Bute, Dovecot Studios’ founding weavers came from William Morris’ Merton Abbey Workshops in Wimbledon, London. The Studios were incorporated in to The Edinburgh Tapestry Company in 1946 although they also continued to be known as Dovecot. It is only a short journey back to those founding weavers who, with a succession of artistic designers, influenced the world of tapestry throughout the 20th Century." There are many more countries where tapestry thrives, and we'll get around to that in the upcoming blogs. </div>
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Our most recent submission to the<b> Fate, Destiny and Self Determination / le sort, le destin et l'auto-determination tapestry installation</b> is from Jan de Meyer who writes: </div>
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Dear Line, Please find ...three pieces I have woven for your international tapestry project. I chose to weave with plastic bags I cut into small ribbons. The bags I used are the one you get for free in the supermarket over her to put fruits and vegetables away you want to buy. I thought that fruit, vegetables and plastic are a disturbing comination. I consider the fact that plastic litters our planet in a huge way (specifically the oceans) and tried to put the SOS morse code into the weft (hard to see, I confess.) The large piece in the right hand corner is from this series. Then I changed and cut white tyvek into even smaller ribbons and started again. This endup up in what now number 2 and 3. The SOS is still hidden in the weft (very hidden!). It all looks pretty white as I saw no white pieces in the pictures of the show at Galerie Trames at the Centre Conemporain Textiles de Montreal and I wanted to add something different. I had a lot of fun in doing the pieces and Maria (herself a very distinguished professional tapestry weaver) was a great help for the finishing touch in each of them, so this is a bit of a joined venture. I hope my small contribution will be useful for your wonderful artistic endeavour." </blockquote>
If you would like to see how this project has evolved go to its Facebook page: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fate-Destiny-and-Self-Determination-An-international-tapestry-project/194385150700425?ref=bookmarks">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fate-Destiny-and-Self-Determination-An-international-tapestry-project/194385150700425?ref=bookmarks </a><br />
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The installation continues to accept contributions. Your name will be included in upcoming exhibitions of the installation. The next exhibit is in Denver, Colorado at Regis University, August 1-31 2015. Please contact me if you would like to be a part of it, at linedufour.tapestry@gmail.com.<br />
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Fate, Destiny and Self-Determination/Le Sort, Destin and l’Auto-determination is a tapestry installation generously funded by the Ontario Arts Council and co-created by people all over the world. Composed of three sections, it was designed and managed by Line Dufour, who wove the first panel measuring 5’ x 3’ and exemplifies the contemporary practice of tapestry weaving, where artist and weaver are one and the same. The second panel, measuring 5’ x 18” was woven by visiting participants ranging from the inexperienced and amateur to the professional. This referenced traditional tapestry conventions in that many weavers worked on the tapestry at the same time or at various stages and neither did they create the tapestry designs. I documented those who wove this section both in pictures and video and as the project progressed, I kept participants updated via Facebook and emails. This audio visual component is exhibited with the tapestry installation.<br />
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The final section is composed of irregular shapes positioned with pins at varying heights, between the 2 main panels, floating freely in space, as though the tapestry is pulling apart or coming together. As each shape arrives, Dufour photographs/documents it, posts it to her Tapestry blog, as well to as to the Facebook page for the project www.facebook.com/pages/Fate-Destiny-and-Self-Determination-An-international-tapestry-project/. She also includes information about the participants such as their website if they have one, and other comments they have made about the project or about their work. Furthermore, the entire project has been documented on its Facebook page. Thus far, 230 completed shapes have been received from 18 countries, and a total of about 160 people have participated in the entire project thus far. The installation continues to expand and build community as it accepts woven shapes on an ongoing basis and will do so indefinitely. Part of the exhibition is the list of all participant names shown below.<br />
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Each time Fate, Destiny and Self-Determination is installed the shapes are never placed in the same positions, making it highly interactive and spontaneous. This invites the curator to be part of its creation. Conversely, the curator could also invite the gallery guest to position shapes on the wall between the two panels, having them re-create the installation. <br />
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The first exhibition of the project was at Craft Ontario in Toronto, Ontario Canada in September 2014, followed by one is in Montreal at the Montreal Centre for Contemporary Textiles in January 2015. After Denver, Colorado in August 2015, another exhibtion has been confirmed for the Craft Council of British Columbia in March 2016. Others are being organized internationally.<br />
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Craft Ontario is asking emerging fibre artists/craftspeople to submit their work for an upcoming exhibition. Get your tapestries and wall hangings out there! (Juried). Deadline is May 24 2015. <a href="http://craftontario.com/exhibitions/upcoming/call-for-entry">http://craftontario.com/exhibitions/upcoming/call-for-entry</a></div>
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The American Tapestry Alliance has a scholarship opportunity for studying <a href="http://americantapestryalliance.org/event/ata-scholarship-for-tapestry-study-deadline/">tapestry: http://americantapestryalliance.org/event/ata-scholarship-for-tapestry-study-deadline/</a></div>
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Are you interested in talking a workshop with one of these tapestry artists? Please google them to find out more about them and let me know at linedufour.tapestry@gmail.com<br />
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Recently I was listening to a CBC Ideas podcast entitled Eureka! It examined the processes by which we have that flash of insight, that AHA moment.....essentially what we think of as creativity. Though many of the stories they used to describe this phenomena were based on science, the same processes occur when we are problem solving in our every day life, and our creative endeavours. I thought Agata's shape above, was a good example of intuition.....the reconfinguring of experience, knowledge and insight. </div>
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downtown <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Wroclaw</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Poland</st1:country-region></st1:place>, is a treasure of an art
gallery called “Galeria Tkacka ‘Na Jatkach’” (Gallery of weaving "Na
Jatkach"). The gallery is one of the hidden gems of cultural attractions
in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Wroclaw</st1:place></st1:city>, and
it is burrowed within a historic 13<sup>th</sup> century alleyway constructed
on medieval foundations. Some elements from the 13<sup>th</sup> century are
still visible on the south side of the Stare Jatki street. Today this attractive
alleyway is home to several artists’ galleries and studios; it is hard to
imagine that in past times it was a meat market, full of wooden stalls stuffed with
butchered animals.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gallery "Na Jatkach" is</span><span class="hps"><span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> classified</span></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> <span class="hps">as the only</span> <span class="hps">gallery</span>
<span class="hps">in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Poland</st1:country-region>
and possibly in <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place> that is </span>promoting
<span class="hps">primarily</span> the art of <span class="hps">weaving. It is a place where international artists
meet and exhibit their tapestries and woven art. This gallery was established in 1978
together with the weaver's group called "10 x TAK" (“10 x YES”). At the newly founded gallery, the weaver’s
group boasted a permanent place to exhibit and show the talent of its members.
Polish weaver </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ewa Poradowska - Werszler was the
initiator of 10 X TAK and has been an incredible advocate for keeping tapestry
weaving alive.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Galeria Tkacka ‘Na Jatkach’, she remains the owner of the gallery, and she
continues to promote weaving and fiber art with all her heart. Ewa, an
internationally recognised fiber art artist and recipient of many art awards, is
a dedicated, energetic coordinator and curator of numerous art exhibits and
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of <st1:placename w:st="on">Poznan</st1:placename> and lecturer at universities
of <st1:city w:st="on">Wroclaw</st1:city> and <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Kalisz</st1:place></st1:city>. She is also regularly providing
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wonders, visitors may purchase beautiful yarn and weaving supplies, or even
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am organizing a group to take a workshop with Sarah Swett whose work you can see on the American Tapestry Alliance website. This probably won't occur until 2016. If you are interested please contact me at linedufour.tapestry@gmail.com.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you didn't get a chance to see Fate, Destiny and Self Determination tapestry installation at the Montreal Centre for Contemporary Textiles below are the links. Previous ones did not work. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Exhibition</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Susan Martin Maffei</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">March 5th to March 26th</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tapestries by Susan Martin Maffei</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the Intimate Multi-Cultural Gallery at</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The International House of Rhode Island</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">8 Stimson Avenue</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Providence RI</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Opening reception March 5th from 5:30 to 7PM</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">contact information:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">tel#: 401-421-7181</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">email: InternationalHouseofRI@gmail.com</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">hours: Monday to Friday 10 to 4.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>MORE ABOUT TAPESTRY WEAVING AND OTHER FIBRE ART RELATED TO WEAVING</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Erin Lewis will be giving a talk on Fibre Optics in weaving and her work at the Burlington Weavers and Spinners. Monday Mar 2 2015 7pm-10.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Susan Middleton, tapestry weaver, will be giving a talk/presentation on her work at the Toronto Weavers and Spinners at Riverdale Park 7:30 pm. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I (Line Dufour) will be giving a talk on the direction of my work at the Etobicoke Guild of Weavers and Spinners at Nielson Park April 7 2015 at 7pm. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">left to right: Louise Lemieux Berube, Line Dufour, Suzanne Chabot (the Director of the CTCM/MCCT) and Isabelle Sentenne (who teaches machine knitting and does the jacquard weaving for the centre.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In biology, growing is defined as " the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level" and today this is my theme for this blog as it applies not only to my recent endeavours but also to the lives of some of the people whose path have crossed mine over the the years of my teaching weaving, as you'll see as you read on. Growth occurs if proper nutrients, environment and support are provided. Over the last several years I can gladly say that many factors have positioned themselves into enabling me to grow as an artist in my area and in developing flourishing relationships. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is evidenced in the ongoing expansion of the Fate, Destiny and Self Determination international tapestry installation, as more shapes continue to come in worldwide, and more connections are made with other tapestry weavers and fibre artists. The installation continues to accept submissions indefinitely and if you'd like to participate please contact me at linedufour.tapestry@gmail.com. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This past weekend I was in Montreal, Quebec, Canada setting up the exhibition Fate, Destiny and Self-Determination/le sort, le destin et l'auto-determination at the Montreal Centre for Contemporary Textiles/Le Centre de Textiles Contemporain de Montreal. It's weaving school and the size of the weaving classroom is about 4 times the size of the weaving class at the Toronto Weaving School. The school was co-founded by Louise Lemieux Berube over 25 years ago. They offer summer workshops and master classes as well as formal training in collaboration with other educational institutions such as Concordia University and a CEGEP. Besides weaving they also offer machine knitting, dyeing and other textile related workshops. To know more about their programming go to<a href="http://www.textiles-mtl.com/en/"> http://www.textiles-mtl.com/en/. </a></span></div>
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Hard Twist 10 - Memory, the tenth annual edition of the Gladstone Hotel's signature show of textile-based art, invites artists to explore the many and complex relationships between cloth and memory.</div>
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Memory winds its way through textiles, a constant thread that runs through the earliest archeological fragments, the latest experimental synthetics and everything in between. Textiles hold memory, recall memory, record - and occasionally obscure - memory. In some recent incarnations they even have memory.</div>
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Fate, Destiny and Self-Determination/le sort, le destin et l'auto determination continues its journey with new shapes arriving everyday to make a total of 264. To date 169 participants from 19 countries have contributed to co-creating this tapestry installation. It will be exhibited next at Galerie Trame situated at the Montreal Centre for Contemporary textiles/ Centre de Textiles Contemporain de Montreal from January 31 to February 27 2015. The reception/vernissage is January 31 from 2pm to 4:30 pm. Join us for a wonderful afternoon celebrating all the co-creators of this installation. The installation continues to accept shapes indefinitely....constantly expanding. </div>
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The Handweavers Guild of America is asking weavers to submit their work for an annual exhibition Small Expressions Entry deadlines are: </div>
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Puchka tours: weaving and knitting workshops http://www.puchkaperu.com/</div>
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Archie Brennan / Susan Maffei </div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Archie Brennan and Susan Martin-Maffei are coming to Oregon in April for a special set of retreats. Technical demos and fabulous talks will be our treasures to take into our growing kit bag that only Master Craftsman like Archie an Susan can give us. The retreats are held at my cabin/studio just south of Cannon Beach. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">I have rented a great house for all participants that has a spectacular view.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Dinners and Lodging is included in this special retreat and transportation from Portland if needed.Loaner looms and materials are providedThe two sessions are:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">April 23rd-26th 2015</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">April 30-May 3rd 2015</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">$560.00 is the fee for the three days</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">We are very excited and hope you will consider joining us.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Contact Pam at pampatriestudios@yahoo.com 503-250-1642Call 503-250-1642 before January 10th and after February 6th</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Email anytime...I will be in El Tuito Mexico with Jean Pierre Larochette and Yael Lurie</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Cooking for the gang and weaving up some long thought about ideas.Out of the phone connection from January 13th until February 6th.</span><br />
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Anne Jackson's tapestry, "Certaine Wytches" part of her Witchcraft Series will be in the exhibition Power of Ten at the Select Spring Festival 2015 in the Museum in the Park, Stratford Park, Stroud,<br />
Gloucestershire GL5 4AF from May 2 - 26, 2015. info@select.org<br />
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Archie Brennan and Susan Martin Maffei are exhibiting in two shows: The Art is the Cloth at the Walton Center Gallery at George School, Newtown, PA, through February 9, 2015 www.georgeschool.org; and Tapestry Now: An International Perspective, at the Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ. January 11,<br />
2015 to May 10, 2015. Reception and artists talks: January 11, 2015, 2:00 to 4:00 pm. www.hunterdonartmuseum.org<br />
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Contemporary International Tapestry, January 11 - May 10, 2015,<br />
highlights the work of three generations of artists from nine countries.<br />
www.hunterdonartmuseum.org; 7 Lower Center St. Clinton, New Jersey, 08809. 908-735-8415. Tuesday through Sunday, 11 am - 5 pm. Suggested admission: $5.<br />
Jan. 11, 2015 from 2:00 to 4:00 pm - Reception and artists talks.<br />
Sunday, Feb. 22, 2015, at 2:00 pm - Weaving Demonstration and Guided Tour with curator Carol K. Russell. Free with admission. Registration required.<br />
Sunday, March 22, 2015, 9:00 am to 4:30 pm - A Day of Contemporary Tapestry featuring lectures with artists Archie Brennan and Susan Martin Maffei as well as an interactive demonstration with Brennan.<br />
Sunday, April 19, 2015, 1:30 to 3:30 pm - Handweaving Tapestries with Carol K. Russell for children ages 6 and up.<br />
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span style="line-height: 14px;">Deerfield Academy, South Deerfield, MA, March 26 - May 1, 2015</span></li>
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“Textures” by Juana Sleizer<br />
North York Central Library<br />
5120 Yonge Street<br />
Opening hours:<br />
Monday to Friday 9.00 am to 8.30 pm<br />
Saturday 9.00 to 5.00 pm<br />
Sunday 1.30 pm to 5.00 pm<br />
From Friday January 02. 2015 to Saturday January 31 2015<br />
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Once again this week I return to the <b>Sheila Hicks Weaving as Metaphor</b> book. I continue with my reading of an inspiring essay by Arthur Coleman Danto, an American art critic and philosopher. A while back I talked about Plato's views on weaving in his treatise/book The Statesman and it is from his essay that I presented my ideas. I continue finding it fodder to feed the fire of my weaving crusade. Danto was an influential art critic, philosopher and author. He stated in this essay: "The aim of state making is justice, which means , in effect, weaving together the various social virtues without allowing one more than the other to dominate. And it is that which makes weaving so apt a metapor for statemanship. The task is 'to make the city as a whole as happy as possible....not modeling our ideal of happiness with reference to any one class.'" Somehow this quote segways with Paula Armstrong's message.......<br />
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Paula Armstrong from England writes: "I have had fun weaving the shapes so thank you for the opportunity.<br />
For me your remit is instructional and inspirational, seeing what amazing depth can be achieved just with pure hues, and I am glad to have learnt from that. Thank you! Such community projects give me hope. I see every tapestry as a droplet of love raining down where it is needed most.’<br />
I don’t have my own website, but please enclose my thoughts about the tapestry project on your blog.<br />
Warmest best wishes"<br />
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Contemporary International Tapestry Hunterdown Art Museum<br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 22px;">Submission Deadline April 30, 2015</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Memory winds its way through textiles, a constant thread that runs</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"> through the earliest archeological fragments, the latest experimental</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"> synthetics and everything in between. Textiles hold memory, recall</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"> memory, record - and occasionally obscure - memory. In some recent</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"> incarnations they even have memory.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18px;">Melanie Egan - Head of Craft, Harbourfront Centre</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18px;">Elizabeth Elliott - Textile Artist, Toronto</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18px;">Sarah Quinton - Curatorial Director, Textile Museum of Canada</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18px;">Helena Frei and Chris Mitchell – Hard Twist curators</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18px;">Britt Welter-Nolan – Managing Director Artistic Projects, Gladstone Hotel (ex-officio)</span><br />
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ATA invites tapestry artists from around the world to submit works to American Tapestry Biennial 11. Entry to ATB 11 is open to all tapestry artists who design and weave their own tapestries (defined as "hand-woven, weft-faced fabric with discontinuous wefts"), either individually or collaboratively (all assistants shall be named). Large scale works are welcome. Multimedia work will be considered as long as the primary medium is tapestry. Entries must be one-of-a-kind and have been completed after January 2012. Entries may not have been shown previously in any ATA exhibition, including the Unjuried Small Format show. Artists may submit up to three pieces, but a maximum of one piece per artist will be accepted.</div>
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South Bend Museum of Art<br />
July 2 - September 25, 2016<br />
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University of Texas<br />
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San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles<br />
March 1 - June 18, 2017<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over the many years I have been tapestry weaving, I have often been surprised by those people that tell me they too used to weave tapestry. People I hadn't expected in the fibre art circles I mingle with. Fibre artists who I greatly admire and who have journeyed far from the rigid structures that define the traditional tapestry technique. Recently I had the great privilege of visiting the highly esteemed fibre artist, Susan Warner Keene, at her Toronto Studio in Parkdale. I was taken aback when Susan showed me her own tapestry weaving forays from many years ago and I just loved it. She also showed me this book (above) on <b>Sheila Hicks: Weaving as Metaphor</b>, and I it completely enchanted me. She told me that Kai Chan, another one of my favorite fibre artists who has an exhibition at the David Kaye gallery opening this Saturday, studied with Sheila Hicks in Paris in the 1960s. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What I love about this book is its lack of pretense, simplicity and authenticity. The pages of the book themselves have an artisinal quality, and the front of the book is pristine with an embossed white on white grid like structure, referencing weaving. Freedom of constraints and expectations emanates in each work. One never gets the sense that she was ever concerned with what anyone else thought about her creations nor that she was trying to impress anyone. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Each work is a for me a meditation and captures the now, the moment she occupied at the time. They are imbued with a sense of humility in that they make evident that they are very much handmade and does not try to achieve technical excellence, exploring instead new possibilities and new ways of thinking about textiles and tapestry. I find it refreshing even after 50 years since she has created many of these pieces. It is a documentation of the pursuit of a creative path. What is ground breaking is that she is one of the first people to take fibre art in this direction, to not be concerned with textile as practical and useful, to see the beauty in the textiles and fibres themselves and to use them as a painter uses paint and brushes, and a sculptor their respective tools, that is to say, to see textiles as implements of making art. There are also a number of essays written by other people which are very interesting but more academic. From one of these essays I learned how much Plato esteemed weavers which I have mentioned at other times. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma;">Rachel Miller<br />Professor/ Studio Head, Textiles Department<br />Crafts and Design<br />Faculty of Animation, Arts and Design<br />Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning<br /><a href="tel:%28905%29%20845-9430%20X%3A2379" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank" value="+19058459430">(905) 845-9430 X:2379</a><br /><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;"><u>Email</u>: </span><u><a href="mailto:rachel.miller@sheridancollege.ca" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">rachel.miller@sheridancollege.<wbr></wbr>ca</a></u></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Art is the Cloth</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Walton Gallery</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">George School</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1690 Newtown Langhorne Road</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">215.579.6695</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">December 4, 2014 to February 9, 2015</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gallery hours:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Monday—Thursday, 9:00 a.m. —6:30 p.m.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Friday, 9:00 a.m. —4:30 p.m.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Saturday and Sunday, 1:00—5:00 p.m.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gallery Talk and Artist Reception:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thursday, December 4, 3:00—5:00 p.m.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gallery talk begins at 3:00 p.m. and will be immediately followed by the artist reception.</span><br />
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ATA invites tapestry artists from around the world to submit works to American Tapestry Biennial 11. Entry to ATB 11 is open to all tapestry artists who design and weave their own tapestries (defined as "hand-woven, weft-faced fabric with discontinuous wefts"), either individually or collaboratively (all assistants shall be named). Large scale works are welcome. Multimedia work will be considered as long as the primary medium is tapestry. Entries must be one-of-a-kind and have been completed after January 2012. Entries may not have been shown previously in any ATA exhibition, including the Unjuried Small Format show. Artists may submit up to three pieces, but a maximum of one piece per artist will be accepted.</div>
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University of Texas<br style="line-height: 19px;" />Dates to be announced<br style="line-height: 19px;" /><a class="ecxexternal" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=0012wMUlAwpqst_nmBnUXheubrAwsWyq9ZDF8bt1stAMRWePdtT9boWeszZiEW3Po4ub2p5ZdNxDQ8LUiefoethdNBsCZBC74tw1ZT60TIY1s0s7c90Hqan333r-EF2RbhEqh14_-TYsjKuSOE7qeKQWIfT4Lbklxhifsf5qdbCbRtP9vUoOprNBV0LSa3MMfzNOBxsey3nsVsAFORftEKqOu7yfXap_GxPsl7ZctG6VBveInnLAU1NRznk9qxV2s3oD0SYxtreT2LPGZkm_aJY6P-Yv0H86UfoQ58weAm8TqdJyLiB1HP55teu2J0JrQW8&c=sMIythAK-iF0GnZDP0_7WAag_BzXU2ZkqgGVjm0fx6Nv8jXceGCMPA==&ch=oN0e3ffchi-Iady9Tnz2n834avXcU_as8fz3SBB7icdoMFqatmACwA==" shape="rect" style="border: 0px; color: #32608e; cursor: pointer; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">http://gallery.unt.edu/</a></div>
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San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles<br style="line-height: 19px;" />March 1 - June 18, 2017<br style="line-height: 19px;" /><a class="ecxexternal" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=0012wMUlAwpqst_nmBnUXheubrAwsWyq9ZDF8bt1stAMRWePdtT9boWeozTMtIyay1_vD4fqLcm-XBJCXZrc6uQMZjP0kukv78vzRrRjd-EbDfGkl1GwzZP6QCFj-MX_KJY4RNeB7BMLGsAM2DQ36mELbye1OR2vgh_9JKNIFj2tXTHCWNpHv9Btq2eoOYKrp3yaGyDTaIcoGWSOxQ_1l434p2k9FktggjTUA_ktlMYOp_H9A33_AwfjE0nhlbUz1XI7N_amnCZhk5gEZhXJ0ejVvcVy8NRdCDfoBVnRvvKibEsZOY-xHNL6x1XOFE70PeW5XBDk9OahkI=&c=sMIythAK-iF0GnZDP0_7WAag_BzXU2ZkqgGVjm0fx6Nv8jXceGCMPA==&ch=oN0e3ffchi-Iady9Tnz2n834avXcU_as8fz3SBB7icdoMFqatmACwA==" shape="rect" style="color: #32608e; cursor: pointer; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.sjquiltmuseum.org/ </a></div>
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As American Thanksgiving approaches, and Christmas not far off, one's thoughts turn once again to thankfulness for what we have, and to the acts of giving and receiving, of generosity of spirit and in action. This are imporant elements of building connection to others, of deepening bonds, of building community. These are moments to celebrate the good things of life, love and relationships. With that in mind, the international tapestry project <b>Fate, Destiny and Self-Determination/le sort, le destin et l'auto-determination</b> continues to grow as it receives more shapes and people continue to give to it. The project has received 230 shapes from 160 participants from 18 countries. The project continues to accept woven shapes of any material within certain parameters. If you would like to participate in this project contact Line Dufour at linedufour.tapestry@gmail.com and I will send you more information. Exhibitions are confirmed for the installation for 2015 and other venues are under negotiation. All participants names are included as part of the exhibit. </div>
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Jamileh Emdadian wove this tapestry. She didn't use a cartoon and wove it intuitively. </div>
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Barbara Heller won first place prize at the HGA (Handweavers Guild of America) juried show, entitled Small Expressions, juried by Gerhardt Knoedel, a very successful and well respected textile designer. The exhibition was held at the Fuller Craft Museum in Massachusetts. <a href="http://fullercraft.org/">http://fullercraft.org/</a></div>
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Linda Needles senT this along - a tapestry commission in Scotland </div>
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Order a catalog of the tapestries included in the touring US exhibition Art of the Cloth, in which one of my tapestries was selected. The beautiful catalog for <b><i>The Art is the Cloth</i></b> is 48 pages. It<br />
includes an image of every piece of every participant in the exhibit, in<br />
color. Now available from WEBS, the yarn store (<a href="http://www.yarn.com/">www.yarn.com)</a>. Just fill in *The<br />
Art is the Cloth* in the search box at the top of their opening page--and<br />
you will be whisked away to the right location to place your order.<br />
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MOVIES/DVDS<br />
Though it may be too late to see this movie at this location, keep an eye out for it.<b> Keepers of the Loom,</b> about Estonian weavers. You may be able to order it on their website. Thanks to Barbara Aikman who sent this along.<br />
Location: Tartu College, 310 Bloor St W, Toronto, ON M5S 1W4 Date: Saturday November 15, 2014 Bilingual: 4:00 pm (Estonian/English) English: 7:00pm (Voice-over)<br />
Tickets: $10.00 each and available at the door or for purchase online at<br />
<a href="http://www.keepersoftheloom.com/screenings">www.keepersoftheloom.com/screenings</a><br />
Trailer: www.keepersoftheloom.com<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">EXHIBITIONS</span><br />
The international tapestry installation, <b>Fate, Destiny and Self-Determination/le sort, le destin et l'auto-determination</b> will be exhibited in Montreal at Trames gallery, situated in the Montreal Centre for Contemporary Textiles. <a href="http://www.textiles-mtl.com/en/">http://www.textiles-mtl.com/en/</a><br />
Opening reception: January 31, 2015<br />
Exhibition dates January 31 - February 27 2015.<br />
More details to follow.<br />
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Mary Cost is showing <b><i>Fractured Light</i></b>, her newest work, at The Contemporary Tapestry Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico.<br />
November 9th - December 6th <br />
Gallery hours: Thursday - Saturday, 12:00 - 4:00 pm <br />
The Contemporary Tapestry Gallery<br />
835 West San Mateo Road<br />
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505<br />
(505) 231-5904<br />
Contact: LaDonna Mayer: ladonna@ladonnamayertapestry.com <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">TAPESTRY WORKSHOPS</span><br />
A 4 day Tapestry weaving workshop with Mary Zicafoose: New Stories: Tapestry and Ikat Techniques, March 4-7 2015, Omaha Nebraska. Click on this link to see Mary's website: <a href="http://www.maryzicafoose.com/">http://www.maryzicafoose.com/</a>. To register and learn more go here: <a href="http://americantapestryalliance.org/education/workshops/new-stories-tapestry-and-ikat-techniques-for-weavers/new-stories-tapestry-and-ikat-techniques-for-weavers-registration-form/">http://americantapestryalliance.org/education/workshops/new-stories-tapestry-and-ikat-techniques-for-weavers/new-stories-tapestry-and-ikat-techniques-for-weavers-registration-form/</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Cynthia Miller, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">I first met Cynthia when I attended my first (and sadly my only) Convergence when it was held in New Mexico. We formed a quick bond. Even then, what impressed me most was her gentleness and her high regard and knowledge of Native American cultures. She writes:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"> "Thank you for the opportunity to participate in this project. I am new to tapestry, and find the design process as challenging as the execution. I settled on blue as it represents water. I am fortunate to live in a city with beautiful lakes, ponds and rivers. That is where I found my inspiration for this piece." </span></blockquote>
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Isabel Magin submitted 5 shapes for the Fate, Destiny and Self-Determination installation bringing the total number to 230 and 156 people from 19 countries.<br />
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<span style="color: #741b47;">She writes: A very good friend of mine, a weaver, Jennifer Bennett, informed me last August of your international tapestry project and I have since been following it on Facebook.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="color: #741b47;">She invited me to participate in your project and as I like the idea very much, I created a few shapes, which include ideas taken from some of my designs.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="color: #741b47;">I like your idea of this international project in which you invite others to join in and to use the social media to connect. It is a great way to find out more about weaving and other artists [doing weaving]. Your tapestries are so cheerful, what a wonderful splash of colours in this troubled world. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #741b47;">I am Belgian and have lived in Scotland and Norway. I an now settled in the Netherlands. I graduated from design and tapestry at Edinburgh Art College where I met Jennifer Bennett. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #741b47;">Tapestry has never turned into a full time occupation but it has stayed an important part of my life and I am still enjoying weaving and giving or selling some of my works but on a small scale. Congratulations for your recent exhibition. Just amazing and I wish you all the best with it. </span></blockquote>
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Jennifer Tweedie taught herself tapestry weaving with youtube videos. Here is her first attempt. Presently Jennifer is learning how to weave fabric.<br />
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You can see these woven art works at the World of Threads</div>
Line Dufourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09105886448203918477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3551359577575339832.post-27132885909495410772014-10-30T12:37:00.001-07:002014-10-30T12:37:53.923-07:00Fashion as Art, Art as Fashion<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A recent submission (above) for the Fate, Destiny and Self Determination international (tapestry) installation is from Maite Tanguy . She has distinguished hereself in her weaving practice in Paris France for the last 10 years by creating art /fashion fabrics for Haute Couture such as Balenciaga, Christian Lacroix, Celine, Bouchra Jarrar, and Proenza Schouler. She enjoys these collaborations and describes them as robust and envigorating experiences but also challenging and demanding in terms of productivity. She has had numerous exhibitions in Latin America and has participated in "Artextures" , an exhibition of fibre art in France directed by Marie Francine Brochard. </div>
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She loves to travel and weave connection with others which she considers very important...weaving ...people and threads - the fibre that gives meaning to her life! In her 20s she acquired her skills at sewing fashionable clothes in Paris and at night she worked on her own creations, where she discovered her gift for colour and her passion for it. When she was unable to find the kinds of fabrics she wanted to sew, she decided that she had to weave her own in order to create the garments she imagined. When she was 30 her parents gave her a weaving loom and the process was an ecstatic experience and embarked in studying textiles and weaving at the atelier National d'Art Textile under Genevieve Dupeux. </div>
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Weaving for Maite is also about transmitting it to others and she has been giving classes for the last 30 years at workshops in Vanves, a suburb of Paris.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Winkles or periwinkles were a great source of creative inspiration for many of Maite's works. </span></div>
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Maite says she loves fibre art because she loves to use it to share her stories and love for nature. After a rigorous spell of production fashion weaving she realized she needed more creative time, and time to express what was important to her. Marine life are great sources of inspiration for her work. </div>
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Another important element for creative work is silence. She feels it nourishes her creativity, and helps her to release the flow of ideas, further rejuvenating and revitalizing her in so many ways. Its all the sweeter when many opportunities like exhibitions, have resulted with her being true to her calling and direction and honouring what she needs to have her in life. </div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Maite's website: </span></span><a href="http://arts-up.info/MBR/page_dediee/galerie.php?id=286" style="text-align: center;">http://arts-up.info/MBR/page_dediee/galerie.php?id=286</a><br />
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other websites featuring her work:</div>
<a href="http://www.aiguille-en-fete.com/A-la-decouverte-de-Maite-Tanguy-creatrice-de-tissus-uniques-et-inspires_a1052.html" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">http://www.aiguille-en-fete.com/A-la-decouverte-de-Maite-Tanguy-creatrice-de-tissus-uniques-et-inspires_a1052.html</a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br id="ecxFontBreak" /></span><br />
<a href="http://www.ateliersdeparis.com/pro.php?pro=911" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">http://www.ateliersdeparis.com/pro.php?pro=911</a><br />
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Meanwhile back in the weaving class at the Toronto Weaving School, tapestry students have been impressing me immensely with their latest endeavours.<br />
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Gert Rogers created this lovely tapestry based on a photograph taken decades ago of her very fashionable sister. She framed the tapestry and will be giving it to her niece, her sister's daughter. </div>
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Jamileh Emdadian just started taking my weaving classes only a few weeks ago and already she completed her sampler (which you saw in my last post). She created the design for this tapestry in a spontaneous way not working with a cartoon. </div>
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Don't forget that the World of Threads fibre art exhibitions are going on in Oakville and they are opening this weekend. Check their website for all their locations.Line Dufourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09105886448203918477noreply@blogger.com1