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The sun is shining and the blossoms are starting to show!! It’s that time of year again when the Silk Purse Art Centre hosts Cherry Blossoms: A Textile Translation. This annual event showcases the artistry of regional textile artists’ interpretation of the colours excitement and fascination of Cherry Blossom Festival. The opening for this exhibit…

So what’s a dendrite and why would a needle arts group be interested? Well…let’s start at the beginning with a definition. What exactly is a dendrite? According to the dictionary it is a branched extension of a neuron that receives signals from other neurons and transmits those signals to the cell body. Wow!! that’s scientific!!!…

You’ve got a basket that you have been tossing your orts, scraps, and solitary buttons into. It holds all those little things that are just too delicious to throw away but couldn’t be used in the project you were working on at the time. It’s been sitting in your studio, or next to your comfy…

In the late summer, North Shore Needle Arts Guild applied to the Silk Purse Gallery in West Vancouver for an exhibition in 2024 and we were accepted!!! Our exhibit will be called “Pick a Pocket” and here’s the details we have so far. There will be lots more information, posters and all sorts of visuals…

Here is an opportunity to learn about a traditional stitchery technique. Boutis is a traditional needlework technique specific to the Languedoc and Provencal regions of the south of France, whose origins can be traced to the port city of Marseilles in the 15th century. Here it became a highly popular form of embellishing plain, most…

Well our ABC Team has done it again! This quarter our Virtual Wednesday meet-ups will feature the study of tapestries. The recent presentation at our Guild meeting by guest presenter Sandra Sawatzky of her work The Black Gold Tapestry may have been the impetus for our ABC Team. This is going to make the fourth…