quilt canada 26 april – 1 may 2010 |
still crazy 17 nov 09 – 7 feb 10
mill bay guild sale 31 oct – 3 dec 09 |
slide show & sale with kongthong jun 09
victoria fibrefest 2009 13–21 jun 09 |
gibsons landing fibre fest 19 – 22 aug 09
cowichan fleece & fibre fair 25 oct 09 |
ivan sayers vintage clothing shows oct 07
salt spring island fibre fest jul 07 |
fibre fest international may 07
Quilt Canada
Calgary, Alberta
26 April – 1 May 2010
Classes, workshops, professional development conference, lectures, juried show, special exhibits and a merchant's mall. Tour the Glenbow Museum Archives, attend the Western Closing Banquet and take part in the Trend-Tex Challenge. Visit Banff and Lake Louise; see the Calgary Olympic Park; tour the Drumheller Badlands and the Royal Yyrell Museum.
www.canadianquilter.com/events/index_events_quiltcanada2010.htm
Still Crazy
San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
Opening reception Sunday, November 22, 2-4pm. Free to members and free to the public with Museum admission.
November 17, 2009 – February 7, 2010
Still Crazy mines the Museum's permanent collection to explore the glorious Victorian crazy quilt. A purely decorative art object that fused a 16th century Japanese patchwork tradition with the fine embroidery revived by the British Arts & Crafts Movement, the late 19th century crazy quilt presaged modernists' use of abstraction and collage techniques, and was a forerunner of the contemporary art quilt.
Crazy quilt-making reached fad proportions during the Victorian period of 1876 – 1900. Made of fine dress fabrics like brocades, silks and velvets, and ribbons they were heavily embellished with areas of decorative embroidery or paint or even photographic images on fabric. They were most often made of irregular shapes and sizes, a kind of collage aesthetic, and they were pieced together with an astounding variety of embroidered stitches, in a multitude of colors. They are dark, saturated and luxurious in look and feel, and the embroidered details are often nature inspired or symbolic or personal. This exhibit features an unusual variety of the kinds of textiles that were created such as quilts, wall hangings, table covers, comforters, to a one of-a-kind matching pair of Victorian parlor curtains.
www.sjquiltmuseum.org/exhibitions.html
Mill Bay Guild Sale
Join the Tzouhalem Spinners & Weavers Guild for their annual Weavers Sale.
DEMONSTRATIONS
Wednesday October 21
• Children's Demo with Alison Irwin at 10am and 1pm
Wednesday October 28
• Silk Reeling with Els van Dam at 11am
Saturday November 7
Saturday November 14
• Clues to Researching Textile Tools lecture with Florence Feldman-Wood, at Toad Hall, Pine Lodge Farm, 10.30am, $15 (proceeds to Cowichan Valley Museum & Archives and the Shawnigan Lake Museum)
Saturday November 21
Saturday November 28
OPENING
Saturday, 31 October, 1 – 4pm
DATES
31 October – 3 December 2009
LOCATION
The Loft Gallery, Mill Bay Centre, Mill Bay, Vancouver Island
HOURS
Monday 9.30am – 5pm
Tuesday & Wednesday 9.30am – 6pm
Thursday 9.30am – 7pm
Friday 9.30am – 6pm
Saturday 9.30am – 5pm
For more information Mill Bay Guild Sale
Contact Alison Irwin 250.746.6330, Els van Dam 250.743.0851
Slide Show & Sale
with Kongthong, a weaver from Laos
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Orange Hall, Victoria, BC
Thursday, June 25th, 2009
Maiwa Handprints, Granville Island, Vancouver, BC
Join us to hear Kongthong's heartwarming family story:
The perseverance of a widowed mother who found a way through weaving to send all four of her children to university during some of the most challenging years of Lao's history.
Kongthong was one of those children and along with her mother, brothers and sisters created Phaeng Mai Gallery. The gallery teaches Lao women the art of natural dyeing and silk weaving as well as markets their exquisite cloth worldwide.
Kongthong will give a short slide presentation about their work, the importance of weaving to Lao women and the meaning of the patterns woven into the cloth. There will be beautiful silk items for sale and an opportunity to chat with Kongthong.
Victoria FibreFest 2009
June 13-21, 2009
Victoria, BC
Events include:
Knit-Out, Saturday June 13 at Mile 0 Park, 1-4pm
Gallery show, Sunday June 14
Master Spinner Level 1 Course, June 15-19
Swap 'n' Shop (no vendors), Tuesday June 16 at Norway House, 6-9pm
Dinner & Fashion Show, Friday June 19 at Med Grill, 4-8pm
Saxe Point Park Market, Saturday June 21, 10am-4pm
Classes include:
Yarn Crawl | Round Table discussion | Basic Sock Knitting | Knitting with Self Patterning (SP) Yarn | Introduction to Saori Weavng | Mittens & Gloves with SP Yarn | Knit a Beaded Knecklace or Braclet
Saturday June 20, 9am-4pm
For more info: www.victoriafibrefest.com
August 19 – 22, 2009
2009 is the 10th anniversary of the Gibsons Landing Fibre Festival!
Come to British Columbia's beautiful Sunshine Coast and explore the wonderful world of fibre.
Whether you're an experienced fibre artist, keen novice or just appreciate high quality art and crafts, the Festival has lots to offer you, with workshops, exhibits, merchant and artisan markets, demonstrations and entertainment.
Set amid spectacular mountain-to-sea scenery in picturesque Gibsons Landing, the Festival is known for its friendly atmosphere. Now in its ninth year, it has grown to become western Canada's leading fibre event.
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Festival and the 100th anniversary of our Presenting Sponsor, Howe Sound Pulp and Paper Partnership, you are challenged to create a work of art, using hard pulp, wet pulp or newsprint. There are no other rules; the possibilities are limitless! The finished works will be exhibited at the Festival. Entries will not be juried.
For more details: www.gibsonslandingfibrearts.com
Cowichan Fleece & Fibre Fair
October 25th, 2009 10am - 5pm
Eagles Hall, Boys Road, Duncan, BC
With the fall season at our doorstep, it is once again time to get ready for the Cowichan Fleece & Fibre Fair.
We have lined up some exciting and informative demonstrations and interesting displays on a wide variety of textile techniques including basketweaving, rughooking, various forms of feltmaking, knitting, spinning, weaving and braiding. Our vendors are bringing a large variety of fibres, yarns, beads and finished textiles to this year's fair.
Browse our Vendor booths and get an early start on your Christmas shopping. Bring your whole family to participate in a full day of fibre fun. Learn to knit, try your hand at spinning, or share your favourite knitting pattern with a new friend.
Kids Onstage, geared especially for youngsters, will present six different mini–workshops with a fibery slant. At 10:30 kids can learn finger knitting and kumihimo braiding followed by felting and spinning at 12:30 and ending with paper weaving and rag weaving at 2:30.
And if you get hungry or need a break, grab a lunch from our fabulous Fleece and Fibre Fair Food Fare kitchen. We will be ready with coffee, tea, juice, and a warm and hearty vegetable soup or chili with a bun. And don't forget dessert!
Admission: Adults $2.00, children free
Contact person: Els van Dam 250.743.0851 jacoba@telus.net
Silk yarns hand–dyed with Brazilwood: one dye bath, many different colours by using different mordants and after baths
Ivan Sayers Vintage Clothing Shows
Two Vintage Clothing Shows to Benefit the Seeds for Malawi Project
October 12 & 13, 2007
Ivan Sayers returns to Salt Spring on October 12th and 13th for two live model vintage clothing shows at ArtSpring to benefit the Seeds for Malawi Project of the Salt Spring Garden Club. The theme for this year is the good, the seedy and the ugly.
Friday Show
The Friday night performance at 7:30pm focuses on 100 years of what makes fashion beautiful; what fashionistas were dying to wear over the last century. Ivan will bring the must have outfits from the leading haute couturiers and trend setters, no Rosie the Riveter here – only the Belles of the Ball.
Saturday Show
After the Saturday noon Garden Club fall plant sale, (that's the seedy part), the Saturday matinee at 2:30pm is a laugh–filled spoof on the worst of "fashion". Do you remember those outfits that were "to die for" but now when you look back you wonder how you ever wore such a thing? Yes, Ivan will entertain us with the ridiculous, the sublime and the just plain ugly.
As a Jan. 2004 Vancouver Sun article noted, Mr. Sayers has the "best, most representative clothing collection in private hands in the country."
Mary Boni, coordinator of the fashion program at Kwantlen University College said,
"It is an awesome collection," and Sayers "is the best presenter of history I've heard on this continent." Attendees to the 2005 performance at ArtSpring would agree, we never laughed so hard getting educated about the clothes we wear.
Tickets
Tickets are $14.00 for each performance. If you purchase a ticket for each performance, the set is $25.00. Come in person to the ArtSpring box office, or telephone 250.537.2125 or go on-line artspring.ca to reserve your seats. And bring a friend.
Congratulations to everyone involved in Fibre Festival 2007! It was a fabulous event.
In Praise of Hands — July 2007
Workshops |
July 18–24 |
Salt Spring Island's Fibre Festival is unique: it focuses on natural fibres of all sorts – their histories, and how they are produced, processed, and used in the creation of extraordinary fabrics and fashions. We want visitors, artisans, designers, and fashion houses to discover (or re–discover) the special qualities of luxury fabrics made of breed-specific wools, silks, alpaca, llama, mohair, linen, soy silk, hemp and a long list of ancient and modern fibres.
On the weekend, July 21 and 22, the public is invited to attend the Festival proper. This year, the events will be held at ArtSpring — Salt Spring Island's sophisticated Arts and Theatre Centre — so we'll be right downtown and easily accessible. Some of the events and displays:
• Fibre to Fashion demonstration. Some of the finished items will be auctioned off, so you can actually own a one–of–a–kind, handwoven garment.
• demos (some hands on) and displays of a huge range of textile processes and the work they produce.
• an Interweave Knits Trunk Show with batches of spectacular sweaters.
• a major quilting exhibition.
• selected garments from Saturday night's Designers' Showcase on display.
• fleeces of many kinds of animals with touch & feel samples available; there will also be fabrics spun, woven and knit from the fleeces.
• a Postcard Challenge.
And, of course, there'll be some wonderful vendors on–site, offering excellent fibre, tools, books and finished goods. www.fibrefestival.com.
May 11 – 12, 2007
www.fibrefestinternational.com
From Fleece to Fibre Arts and Everything In-between!
Join us at Fibrefest International, while we celebrate 2007, the Year of the Craft, at Tradex, in Abbotsford BC, Canada.
The 5th Annual Fibrefest International is an exhibition and conference for the fibre enthusiast. The show is produced by Marilyn Ross of Sterling Farms in Aldergrove, British Columbia.
The goal of Fibrefest is to bring together weavers, spinners, quilters, fibre animal fanciers, fibre artists, children, and the interested public in a joint atmosphere of appreciation, learning and camaraderie.
The show will incorporate world class workshops from top instructors, exhibitor booths selling everything from raw fibre to quality finished goods, a marketplace containing the wonderful works of local artisans, instructor's exhibits and demonstrations, as well as live sheep, cashmere goats, llamas and suri alpacas on display to show off the source for much of the fine fibre available for sale at the various exhibitor's booths.
This premier event will be held at Tradex, in Abbotsford, British Columbia. Tradex is a spacious 60,000 square foot, air conditioned building at the Abbotsford Airport.