[For Armchair & Studio Members] A virtual tour of the Darn It! exhibition at the Maritime Museum of BC. The exhibition explores sustainability through the lens of the necessary repair and reuse of items at sea.
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[For All Readers] Member Sarah Thornton recaps our April, 2022, Studio Hours. We had an engaging conversation about sustainability in craft—about what it means, and how it touches all aspects of making. Members shared many resources for further reading, for supplies and materials, and for organizations doing work in this area.
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[Open Access] Leanne Prain interviews Emily Smith about her work with the Fibreshed Fieldschool, and the multimedia Fibre Stories resources that resulted. The experimental mentorship program invited student researchers from Emily Carr University and Simon Fraser University to look at the local textile landscape through the lenses of climate-beneficial and economically viable methods of production and consumption.
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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] Alberta farmer Tara Klager sought and received A Greener World’s Animal Welfare certification for her fibre flock. Here’s why she pursued this official designation, and what the process involved.
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[Open Access] Learn about an extraordinary collaboration between weaver Deborah Livingston-Lowe, dyer Liam Blackburn, and costume designer Jennifer Triemstra-Johnston to create a truly local flannel shirt for Ontario farmer James Craig. Wool from Ontario-raised sheep of a unique Canadian breed was processed by an Ontario mill, woven in Toronto on a Canadian-made loom, and sewn in Ontario to become James’s “fifty-year” flannel shirt.
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[Open Access] Basketry artist Jane Whitten uses traditional methods to transform household waste into remarkable works of art. Combining knitting and basketry techniques, and using found and discarded materials, Jane expresses her passion and concern for the environment, climate change and the effects of material waste on our natural world.
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[For all readers] “Sorry, I’m behind. I’ve got sheep in the garage.” That’s a message writer and wool expert Catherine Knutsson got this past winter from Troy, a sheep farmer in Saskatchewan. It was -51 C at the time, and they were working out how to get a Targhee fleece from his farm to a mill in the Interior of B.C., and eventually to Catherine’s studio on Vancouver Island. This is the first entry in an eye-opening and entertaining four-part series detailing the journey of the wool, from sheep to yarn, from Saskatchewan to the Pacific coast.
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