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 Editorial: March 5 2009

As I sit down to write this I am listening to one of my favourite Indy accordion bands, the Bill Hilly Band from Victoria, the have a lyric that goes “ aren’t you glad you built that front porch when you where young?” I am not quite sure about the youth part or weather it is my computer or fibreQUARTERLY that is my “front porch”. A good front porch situates you in your community while keeping it at a distance, you can sit back and look, or you can invite exchange. For me fibreQUARTERLY is both at the same time....

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fibreQUARTERLY Volume 5 Issue 1/ Winter 2009 –

2008 a Year in Textiles  

 5  individual, PDFs to download and easy to print and take out on the front porch to read.

Part 1 Artist Work: Profiles and Products,

Part 2 Artist Work: Projects and Research,

Part 3, At the Museum,

Part 4: From the Fine Arts Reading Room,

Part 5, From the pages of fQ

Art on display this winter in Toronto 

Orly Cogan size Matters 2007

Vintage fabric, stitching117 x 109 cm (46 x 43”)
Photo: Courtesy the artist 

Currently on display at the Textile Museum of Canada in the "She Will allways be Older Then Us" show 

"Stag" (Wall Hanging) by Grant Heaps, 2,200 1"square pieces of cloth part of Made presents Radiant Dark 09 Elegant Corruptions: an exhibition of modern Canadian Design, February 4 th to 8th, 2009.

Annie Thompson with her uber dolls at Harbourfront Centre

Inspired Design Jacquard and Entrepreneurial Textiles Conference 

Industrial Jaquard Looms at the Oriole Mill in Hendersonville, North Carolina, where the Inspired Design Jacquard and Entrepreneurial Textiles Conference took place January 2009, This Conference is the spring board for the Spring Issue of FibreQUARTERLY 

Left to right: Christina Leitner from the Textile Kultur Haslach in Austria, Vibeke Vestby of Digital Weaving Norway developers of the TC1 loom and board member of the Europe Textile Network, to my right is Beatrijs Sterk the Secretary of the ENT and publisher of Textile Forum magazine. we are standing in the classroom at the Jacquard Center, also in Hendersonville

Just Click on the image to open  the PDF you want to read

  Artist Work: Profiles and Products, PDF

Part Three: At the Museums, PDF, 29 pages

 Part Four: From the Fine Arts Reading Room. PDF 35 pages

Part Five: from the pages of fQ, PDF 30 pages

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