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Booklist:  Publications about Canadian Textile Arts and History

fibreQuarterly with the help of the volunteer staff at the H. L. Pullar Library at the TMC has compiled a Bibliography of published books since 2000, covering Canadian Textile Arts, Craft, Apparel and Costume history and conservation. We have also included a list of Exhibition Catalogues presenting Canadian fibre and textile artist. 

 Books 

CRAFTING IDENTITY: the development of professional fine craft in Canada, edited by  Sandra Alfody, McGill-Queens University Press, 2005. 300p.ISBN 00773528601. http://www.mqup.mcgill.ca/book.php?bookid=1779
Fashion a Canadian Perspective   edited by Alexandra Palmer University of Toronto Press Incorporation 2004 ISBN 0-8020-8809-0 (CLOTH) ISBN 0-8020-8590-3 (PAPER) http://www.utppublishing.com/pubstore/merchant.ihtml?pid=8049&step=4 [ read review by Martha Cockshutt ]
rompkey_jessie.gif Jessie Luther at the Grenfell Mission ,  Edited by Ronald Rompkey, McGill Queen's University Press 2004 ISBN 0773521763 (Cloth) http://www.mqup.mcgill.ca/book.php?bookid=767  
laverty.jpg Silk Stocking Mats: Hooked Mats of the Grenfell Mission, by Paula Laverty, McGill Queen's University Press 2004 Paper 0773525068 http://www.mqup.mcgill.ca/book.php?bookid=1819
 Irene Avaalaaqiaq: Myth and Reality, Judith Nasby, McGill Queen's University Press, 2002 ISBN Paper 0773524401 http://www.mqup.mcgill.ca/book.php?bookid=742  
vonfinckenstein.gif Nuvisavik: The Place Where We Weave Edited and with a preface by Maria von Finckenstein, McGill Queen's University Press 2002, ISNB 0773523359 (paper) http://www.mqup.mcgill.ca/book.php?bookid=1013  

Clothing and Textile Collection Disaster Contingency Plan  

Alyssa Becker, Shirley Ellis, Elizabeth Richards, Edmonton: University of Alberta, 2002. ISBN 1551051584.

to order a copy

Shirley Ellis, MAC, CAPC 
FSO/Conservator, Department of Human Ecology,
 B-20 Human Ecology Building, University of Alberta, 
Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2N1 ph (780) 492-7678  fax (780) 492-4821
http://www.hecol.ualberta.ca/

 

 

Chinese Embroidery from the Collection of the Textile Museum of Canada by  Margaret Vant Erve, Textile Museum of Canada. Toronto: , 2001, 21 p. http://www.textilemuseum.ca/shop.html 

Chinese Embroidery from the Collection of the Textile Museum of Canada Winnie Nelson, --2nd ed. --Hong Kong: Textile Society of Hong Kong, 2000.310 p. ISBN 9628607715.
Exhibition Catalogues  
Wandering Weavers: Nomadic Traditions of Asia Wandering Weavers: Nomadic Traditions of Asia
Natalia Nekrassova
Produced by the Textile Museum of Canada; © 2006
48 pages, 25 colour ill. 10x10 cm in soft cover
$25.00 CDN/US (23 EUR)

The Textile Museum of Canada holds a wide variety of traditional textiles from Asia and Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey. Through these textiles, the author draws a picture of traditional nomadic life, a life that is gradually vanishing as a result of rapid social and economic changes. The textiles discussed include a broad range of items made by nomadic people of Central and West Asia: Turkmen, Kazakh and Kirghiz, Uzbek, Baluch and Shahsevan, Bakhtiari, Kurds and Qashqai. The rugs, tents, clothing and animal gear show various textile techniques.

to purchase publications from the Textile Museum of Canada visit the Museum Shop on line at http://www.textilemuseum.ca/shop_books.html 

ISAACS SEEN : 50 years on the art front; a gallery scrapbook, edited by Donnalu Wigmore, Hart House, University of Toronto; University of Toronto Art Centre; Textile Museum of Canada; Art Gallery of Ontario, 2005. 168 p. Exhibition in four locations in Toronto, ON, 2005. ISBN 0969438265

THOR HANSEN : Crafting a Canadian style Rachel Gottlieb, Textile Museum of Canada, 2005. 35 p. Exhibition held at the Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, ON (January- April, 2005).ISBN 0973665610

OVER HERE : Women, work and WWII,  Jolinnene Maddison, Gallery Lambton, 2004.Exhibition held at Gallery Lambton Sarnia, London, Chatham, September 4/04 to July 24/.05 ISBN 0771425082.

TOUCHED BY INDIGO : Chinese blue-and-white textiles and embroidery  edited by Ka Bo Tsang, Toronto, ON: Royal Ontario Museum, 2004. 83 p. [limited edition] Exhibition at Royal Ontario Museum, October 2004-February 2005.  

HUMAN/NATURE: Contemporary Canadian installation, edited Amy Gogarty, Edmonton, Alberta: Visual Arts Alberta Association, 2004. 48 p. Catalogue for an exhibition shown in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Edmonton, and Saskatoon. Exhibited from April 30, 2004 - February 26, 2005

THE GRAND NATIONAL: reflections of Canada, edited by Susan Burke, Kitchener, ON: Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery,2003.60.p  Exhibition held at Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, ON (May -June, 2003) ISBN 0973192615.  

FIGMENT: fictional realities in the work of Tania Kitchell, Alison Norlen and Minh Nguye, George Harris, Two Rivers Gallery, 2002. 20 p. .Exhibition, Two Rivers Gallery, Prince George, BC, (November 22, 2002 - February 9, 2003).ISBN 0969546629

THE OTHERS: ASINGIT  Ursula Mathis-Moser,  Sybille-Karin Moser, Leopold-Franzens Universitat, 2002. 80 p. First exhibition of Canadian Inuit art in Austria - Innsbruck (May 2002) and Vienna (July-August 2002). Text in English and Austrian. ISBN 3901249567  

THE UNDERSIDE OF CLOTHING, Danielle Lord, Musee Marsil, 2002.32 p. Exhibition held at Musee Marsil, Saint-Lambert, Quebec (January-April 2002). Text in English and French .ISBN 0921557213

WORKS ON CLOTH: imagery by artists of Baker Lake, Nunavit, Judy  Kardosh, Robert Kardosh, - Vancouver, BC: Marion Scott Gallery, 2002. 61 p. Exhibition held at the Marion Scott Gallery, Vancouver, BC (July - August, 2002).ISBN 0921634366

JANICE WRIGHT CHENEY : disorderly creatures; CREATURES DESORDONNEES Lianne McTavish, Rodman Hall Arts Centre, 2001. 28 p. Exhibition, Rodman Hall, June 24-September 9, 2001. Text in English and French. ISBN 0968892507.  

Gillian Collyer: Cozy Robin  Metcalfe, London, ON: Museum London, 2001. 16 p. Exhibition held at Museum London in London, ON (September - November 2001.) ISBN 1895800552  

LOOKING FORWARD new views of the craft object, Susan Warner Keene, Toronto: Ontario Crafts Council, 2000. 55 p. Exhibition held at the National Trade Centre, Toronto, November December, 2000. ISBN 0921059434  

FELT Kathryn Walker, Kenneth Hayes, Museum for Textiles. 2000. 84 p. Exhibition held at the Museum for Textiles (October, 1999 to January, 2000). ISBN 0968441149  

HAND AND SPIRIT : an exhibition of works by craftsperson of the Ontario / Crafts Council Northern Region L / Bill Huffitan, Art Gallery of Sudbury, 2000. 28 p.. Exhibition held at the Art Gallery of Sudbury, Sudbury, ON (June-July 2000).

 

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