[columns] [span4] [/span4][span8] [/span8][/columns] The Fibre Report with Joe Lewis J. Penney Burton is an independent curator, artist, and writer with an M.A. in Fine Arts from Concordia University who specializes in contemporary Canadian fibre art and artists. She has presented papers on Canadian Textiles and Fibre practitioners at national (Neocraft in Halifax 2007) and […]
Category Archives: Fibre Art
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Feb
Feb
[columns] [span4] [/span4][span8] [/span8][/columns] Good to Know part 1 of 2 specifically chose Bali, ‘the island of the gods’, as a vacation destination because of the fabulous batik fabric that is produced there. It was February 1999 and my search for rayon batik fabric led me to Benny and Frida, who, with their two […]
[columns] [span6] [/span6][span6] [/span6][/columns] This is a landscape of a lighthouse in Maine. The photo was taken while working as a stern person on a lobster boat in Maine in the USA. A stern person’s job is to bait fish onto a long needle with an eye in it. The strings are then fed through […]
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Feb
Feb
[columns] [span4] [/span4][span4] [/span4] [span4] [/span4] [/columns] Legacy was created for and entered into the juried exhibition Threadworks 2010, a national competition of needle arts which tours Ontario galleries and museums for three years. Every entry submitted to the show was to interpret the theme of Trees. It was my first submission into a juried […]
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Jan
Jan
Spring is close at hand and it is time to celebrate the season with projects that remind us of flowers and warmer weather. These little wallets from collage designer Donna Funnell of Milton, Ontario, will come in handy as change purses or make perfect gifts for friends who need a business card case. These are […]
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Dec
Dec
[columns] [span6] [/span6][span6] [/span6][/columns] The Fibre Report with Joe Lewis At age 16, I discovered the American expatriate writer Gertrude Stein who spent most of her adult life in Paris, France. In 1914 she published a book of poetry entitled Tender Buttons. In Paris, Ontario, I grew up with a fascination for the […]
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Dec
Dec
[columns] [span6] [/span6][span6] [/span6][/columns] I am a self taught fibre and embroidery artist in Saskatoon, and this is my love story. I was raised on the prairie by a landscape artist who couldn’t sew. I have relatives whom I deeply admire because of their magical abilities to sew, quilt, and cross stitch. As a […]
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Jul
Jul
[columns] [span6] [/span6][span6] [/span6][/columns] The Fibre Report with Joe Lewis Virginie Rochetti was born in Aix-en-Provence, France, and lives in Paris – by profession a stage designer, by passion an embroiderer. I saw her Tapestry of Bagnolet and met her in person the opening weekend of the Kaunas Textile Biennale in Lithuania in September 2011. […]
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Jun
[columns] [span4] [/span4][span4] [/span4][span4] [/span4][/columns] My mother was a wonderful seamstress. As she was growing up, she learned to make a lot of her own clothes, and over the years advanced to suits out of Ultrasuede® and anything else imaginable. She was determined to drag me into her world of patterns and alterations. I did […]
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May
[columns] [span6] [/span6][span6] [/span6][/columns] Herald summer with this intriguing banner – quilted and embellished using templates and thread painting. Read more in our Summer 2013 issue. Designed by Elizabeth Dillinger Art of Fabric 955 Brock Road Pickering, Ontario L1W 2X9 905.420.1101 elizabeth511.wixsite.com/creative