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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 and join us for an Outdoor Stitch-in on July 30th? Here are the details: Meet Wednesday, July 30th – 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. at…

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. Read on…. Picture credit of East Panel and West Panel – image by Vasgen Degirmentas The Canadian Embroidery Tapestry was first conceived in May 2014…

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 down and here is what I discovered about one of them; The North Vancouver Centennial Banner. In February 2007 an idea was spawned when our…

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 “many rabbit holes” that she perused and what she discovered. The Tapestry is a product of the Keiskamma Arts Project of the Keiskamma Trust of…

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 Hospital’s palliative care facility is the work of our long time member Marie-Claude Tremblay. In order to get to know her, I presented Marie-Claude with…

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 may not fit the strict definition of tapestries, but nevertheless those tapestries brought members together to stitch lasting legacies. In coming posts we will talk…