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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[Open Access] 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] 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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