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Campaign for Wool in Canada’s Virtual Town Hall for Artisans
[For Free Members] Digits & Threads member and textile artist Barbara Williams attended the Artisan Town Hall hosted by The Campaign for Wool Canada to learn more about the campaign’s efforts to advance the domestic wool industry. Here’s her summary.
Common Threads: Volume 13, May 2022
[For All Readers] A round-up of news and events in fibre and textile arts and crafts across Canada in May 2022. Look forward to events in July and August to help you plan your summer travel, and check out some job openings across the country in crafts and textiles. Also, the greatest wedding cake topper ever?
A Lasting Signature: Restoring a Vintage Quilt
[For Armchair Members] Quilt designer Krista Hennebury was commissioned to restore a treasured decades-old “signature quilt,” a popular fundraiser item in the early to mid-20th century. Learn how she approached the restoration of both quilt and embroidery, giving new life to the well used family heirloom.
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Campaign for Wool in Canada’s Virtual Town Hall for Artisans
On April 12, 2022, the Campaign for Wool in Canada and the Canadian Wool Council (CFW /CWC) held a virtual town hall to discuss the relevance of the Campaign and the Wool Plan to artisans and mini-mill operators. Michale Raske’s October 2021 Digits & Threads...
Common Threads: Volume 13, May 2022
Franco-Manitoban fibre artist Rosemarie Péloquin has created remarkable sculptural portraits of the Queen and Prince Charles. They are made entirely from Canadian wool, and will be presented to the heir to the throne when he visits St. John's, Newfoundland, this week....
A Lasting Signature: Restoring a Vintage Quilt
Although my quilt practice started over twenty years ago, I’ve not once entertained the thought of quilt restoration. Friends, family, and sometimes people I don’t even know have asked me to help with many sewing tasks, including (but not limited to) hemming jeans,...
Bookbinding Tutorial: How to Make a Japanese Stab-Bound Notebook
Bookbinding is a long-standing tradition in Japan. One type, known as fukuro-toji, or stab bookbinding, was popularized during the Edo period (1603–1867). It is still in practice. Stab binding relies on stitch patterns. In Japan it is based on a four-hole stitch...
The Creative Instigator’s Handbook: Leanne Prain on Making Social Change Through Art
Do you have a belief that you feel really passionate about? Something that you would be prepared to act upon to preserve, protect, or prevent? For me, talks of cuts in library funding make me feel that I would be prepared to engage in acts that might mean going to...
Threads of Hope: Sistering’s Spun Studio
It’s a pre-pandemic day in an outwardly unassuming building on one of Toronto’s busiest streets. Barbara Aikman and Asunta “Sue” DiTrani, studio facilitators at Sistering’s Spun Studio, present one of the studio’s participants with a cheque—earnings from the sale of...
SISTERING… A Prose Poem
One of the participants in the Sistering Spun Studio program wrote this prose poem to express her gratitude for the support she was given. We publish it here with thanks to the author, and to Sistering. Learn more about the program.SISTERING...The open door to my...
Washing Day: How to Wash Woollens So Moths Stay Away
It’s Spring! And while I’m a huge fan of wearing and making woolly garments and accessories, I’m also very happy to be able to put them all away, when the weather turns warm. I don’t just stuff them in the back of the closet—that’s asking for trouble. Animal-fibre...
Thanks to Our Sponsors: April, 2022
A big thank-you to the Canadian businesses that have supported Digits & Threads this month: Edmonton Fibre Frolic Mawdsley Fibre Arts Mississippi Valley Textile Museum Magazine Association of BC We hope you enjoyed learning about them! Advertising from Canadian...
April 2022 Studio Hours: On Sustainability in Craft
For the April Studio Hours, we shared a vibrant discussion on sustainability in craft in honour of Earth Day this month and we welcomed new members who joined D&T after learning about the magazine at Knit City Montreal. We started with some polls set up by Kim and...
Making a Book About Canadian Wool
When we launched Digits & Threads, we formed a company called Nine Ten Publications; we knew we wanted to publish books along with this online magazine. Indeed, we launched co-founder Kate Atherley's ebook, Custom-Fit Hats, at the same time we launched D&T....
Fibreshed Stories: Students Unravel Textile Tales to Support Our Fibre Future
While many of us think about the fibre composition of the textiles that we work with, there is a growing movement that looks beyond our supplies to the very land that they come from. The Fibreshed movement supports a “soil to soil” process. In a regional fibreshed, a...
