World Embroidery Day
July 30 is World Embroidery Day, a perfect day to work on enjoying the art of this stitchery craft. World Embroidery Day is the perfect day to: Why not come
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Our Canadian Tapestry
Continuing on with our tapestry studies during our virtual Wednesdays, Catherine Nicholls of our ABC team gave an informative presentation about the details of how this tapestry came to be.
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What’s hanging at Centennial Theatre?
In a previous post here, I wondered what had happened to some of the various public artwork pieces that our Guild had created. Well I have tracked some of them
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The Keiskamma Tapestry
Continuing on with our study of tapestries, at our virtual meeting in April, member Catherine Nicholls presented her research related to the Keiskamma Tapestry. What follows is the result of
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Display Features Marie-Claude Tremblay
As previously mentioned here, one of the mandates of our Guild is to reach out to our community through displays of our members’ work. This quarter’s display at Lions Gate
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Where are they now?
With our group spending time studying tapestries, we realized that our group historically has done several group projects that one could describe as tapestries. Yes, yes, we know that these
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Study of The Plymouth Tapestry
Our recent “Virtual Wednesday” meet up brought some enlightening information about two tapestries we previously mentioned here. The two tapestries (the Plymouth Tapestry and the Keiskama Tapestry) were well researched.
Pick a Pocket or Two
In the spring of 2023 member of the guild studied the history of pockets. As part of that study, members were encouraged to make and embellish pockets. Since then a
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Boutis Specialist in Our Midst
Congratulations to Elizabeth Janzen, one of our members for receiving a remarkable honour. In recognition of her work in safeguarding “Boutis” as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of France, the Government