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Maple Modern: Next Generation Canadiana
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Article by Peter Fleming
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REFRESHING NEW GENERATION of Canadian designer/makers has found equal inspiration in global design movements and locally sourced materials. This exciting collision blurs the boundaries between design and craft, revitalizes both fields, and creates new potential worlds of objects and activities. Access to...
Last Spike Pin: An Eccentric Jewel Illustrating Canada’s Railway History
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Article by Alexander Reford
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HE PHOTOGRAPH of the last spike ceremony completing the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1885 is one of Canada’s most iconic images. A small group of hatted company men, railway workers, and a small boy is gathered around Donald Smith, who is holding a...
Foil Art Imagery in Quebec
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Article by Gloria Lesser
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HESE CATHOLIC IMAGES from the 1940s or 1950s can be situated as “tinsel art” or “foil art” within the broad rubric of folk art. They are a form of domestic art/craft on the cusp of change from a rural to an urban...
Containment and Enclosure
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Article by Alexandra McCurdy
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Y WORK has long been inspired by the patterns and motifs drawn from the intricate quill work of indigenous Mi’kmaq and women’s textiles such as quilts, hooked rugs, and embroidery. I am also influenced by women’s central role in Western textile history, and by...
REVIEW From Ashgabat to Istanbul: Oriental Rugs from Canadian Collections
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Review by Leopold Kowolik
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HE TEXTILE MUSEUM OF CANADA (TMC), in Toronto, comprises more than 12,000 objects that embody a broad range of processes and global expressions of human culture. But perhaps no one object type is as representative of TMC as Oriental rugs. One of the...
Fall/Winter 2014 Issue
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Editorial: Sport and the Decorative Arts – John FlemingFlies Fit for a King – Jason Klimock
The Hockey photo with Legs – Sheldon Posen
SpotLight on tHe Collection: Animal Head Stirrup Cups – Lindsay Rose-McLean
Sculptural utility: Skatepark Design – Lorraine...
Review: Québec Folk Art
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Review by John Fleming
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EAN-FRANÇOIS Blanchette, recently retired as curator from the Canadian Museum of History after a research career in the fields of furniture history (18th and 19th century), decorative arts, and popular culture, draws upon his long career to create a far-reaching synthesis of the many...
Designed for Action: A Brief Outline of Women’s Clothing for Sport
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Article by Rita Brown
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OMEN HAVE PARTICIPATED in some form of sport for centuries, but it was not until the mid-19th century that they truly engaged in sports other than riding and swimming. The clothing worn for these various activities has evolved over time. …
Spotlight on the Object: Thinking Outside the Ring
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Article by Lorraine Johnson
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RTISTS AND CRAFTSPEOPLE often refer to the blood, sweat, and tears that go into any creative work. For the participants in the Toronto Newsgirls Boxing Club-based Shape Your Life program, who are painting on canvases that began life as the floor of a...