[For Paid Members] Multimedia artist Tracy Carefoot uses multiple skills to create remarkable fabric flower sculptures on a dramatic scale. Here, she speaks with frequent contributor Michelle Woodvine about these detailed and accurate super-sized replicas of natural wonders.
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[Open Access] Michelle Woodvine shares her third ever knitted sweater, a fully customized cardigan, and includes some of the new skills she learned along the way. Part of our 2023 Me Made May celebration.
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[For Armchair & Studio Members] From the Coast Salish wool dog—”ignited by Indigenous ingenuity and extinguished by European colonization”—to WWII-era wool shortages, the remarkable and not well known history of dogs’ wool.
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[For Armchair & Studio Members] Textile artist Lorraine Roy talks with Michelle Woodvine about her process and the inspiration behind her vibrant, nature-inspired textile collages, and how they illuminate the connections between plants, the environment and the humans who experience her art.
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[For Armchair & Studio Members] Ontario-based social enterprise Career Services employs people with disabilities to manufacture kollage SQUARE ™️ knitting needles and crochet hooks. Read about how the square design helps people with hand or wrist issues knit or crochet more comfortably.
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[For Armchair & Studio Members] Visit behind the scenes at the Royal Ontario Museum with textile conservator/curator Chris Paulocik for a deep and fascinating dive into the tools and techniques used to restore and preserve historical textiles. Learn tips for caring for textiles at home, too!
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[Open Access] Sistering’s Spun Studio is an innovative social enterprise providing skills development, community and supplemental income to marginalized women and trans people through textile arts and crafts.
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[Open Access] Nova Scotia’s TapRoot Farms was already one of the largest organic farms in Atlantic Canada when they decided to begin growing and milling flax. Learn about their operation, including how flax is processed into yarn.
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[Open Access] An interview with Canadian macramé artist, designer and social media star Chantel Conlon, who uses a variety of materials and combines techniques to create modern pieces entirely different from the iconic plant hangers of the 1970s.
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[Open Access] Researchers are developing ways to measure and confirm what we crafters have known all along: Making things with fibres and textiles can help us manage stress, fend off depression, delay age-related cognitive decline, learn, grow, fail, and even build communities. This World Mental Health Day, explore what scientists are learning about how our creative pursuits help to keep us healthy.
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