Maiwa East - Sense of Style

A Style for all your Senses

MAIWA EAST

An Oasis of Interior Design 

An English enamelled pot. "JUDGE" WARE. These came to us by way of India.
Beautiful black finish - perfect for warming your mulligatawny ($129.95 - $149.95).
 It rests on a vintage Indian kantha quilt (149.95).

Hammered copper vessel.
The finish of this item recalls each blow of the artisan's hammer - a wonder of craftsmanship and
a pleasure to hold ($499.95). It rests on a vintage Indian kantha quilt (149.95).

Two white enamelled cups ($12.95 each) sit on a black marble platter.
The platter - as heavy as the rock it was cut from, is a marvel of the stonecutter's art ($249.00).
Both items sit on a vintage Indian kantha quilt (149.95).

A small brass bucket ($69.95) is filled with the small bells ($1.95 each)
made by artisans from the Kutch desert. The bellmakers are justifiably famous - for they can
make a bell to suit any herd animal. Moreover they can tune the bell so that you can tell
your goats apart from the goats of the other shepherds. 

Maiwa East

Open Thursday - Saturday 10 - 5

Open Sunday 11 - 5

1310 Odlum Drive, Vancouver, Canada

Handwoven Solutions to Winter - 50% Off Selected Coats

50% off
Beautiful handwoven wool coats.

Two coats. Two distinctive styles. 

One wool is woven in Bengal, the other wool is woven in the Kutch desert in Gujarat. 

Both coats are available in a range of sizes and colours. These coats are lined with soft blockprinted linen, a dash of colour when you turn up your sleeve or turn down your collar.

From February 8 until the 23rd. both these beautiful coats are 50% off.

Regular $249 - now $125.

Come down to Granville Island and slip you arm into one ...

Only in the Main Maiwa store. 

#6 - 1666 Johnston Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6H 3S2

604 669 3939

Quilts of a Lifetime

Our Living Blue special continues until February 9th.

We have marked these exquisite masterworks down 50%

as a fundraiser for the Maiwa Foundation. 

Regular $899, they are now $450 each.

These white on white quilts are all approximately 62" x 87"

They are made from handspun cotton threads

handloomed into khadi cloth and then quilt-stitched

(again by hand) in a variety of simple patterns.

We have put up these items in our online store.

Click the image below for an enlargement and

additional information.

Here they are ...

[Update - these quilts are now all sold]

The Real Heirlooms - now is your chance.

A rare opportunity to aquire a

COLLECTABLE MASTERPIECE 

QUILT

50% Off 

The Quilts of Living Blue

Jan 28 - Feb 9

These are the real heirlooms. Handloom textiles that can be passed down for generations.

The quilts from the Living Blue cooperative in Bangladesh begin with threads of handspun cotton, the threads are then woven on handlooms into khadi fabric. This gentle cloth is then stitch resist dyed in natural indigo grown by Living Blue. Finally the layers of cotton are quilt stitched together in row after row of exquisite hand work.

In addition to the very popular indigo quilts we have a selection of white on white 

kantha quilts. Some have figures worked entirely in white, others have added subtle touches

of colour into the quilting. Some of these are truly regal - the perfect

showpiece for a guest room.

To fund our ongoing work in Bangladesh

we are selling the work of Living Blue at 50% off.

Proceeds from these pieces goes to the Maiwa Foundation.

For more information on the Living Blue co-operative see our previous posts:

In Store Exhibition: Living Blue

Opening Night of the 2012 Symposium: Living Blue

Review - Off the Road in Bangladesh

Maiwa Related - Exhibition Opening and Book Launch

Maiwa's editor and photographer, Tim McLaughlin has a solo exhibition opening next week at West Vancouver's Ferry Building Gallery. On exhibit will be 16 large-format portraits and selected smaller works. The exhibit runs until February 9th, 2014.

Opening reception: Tuesday January 28th 6-8pm.

The exhibition will also be the official launch for the hardcover book Portraits: Found and Taken.

Book launch & reading performance

 Thursday January 30th 7pm (with musical guest Sophia Danai).

Portraits: Found and Taken is a collection of over 75 portraits made over the past three years. The book includes three types of portraits: found, taken, and written. Preface by noted Vancouver writer, publisher and photographer Stephen Osborne. 

A peek inside the book is available at Ampersand and Company.

For those who don't live near Vancouver, 

the book is also available in the Maiwa Online Store

the Sample Sale is still on ...

Each day we stock the store with fresh items for our sample sale. If you come down this weekend you will still see many new things in the Main Maiwa store. Also we have some fantastic stock of men's shirts included in the sale. Naturally dyed, preshrunk, hand blockprinted shirts marked down from $69.95 to $15. For full information about the sale see our previous blog post here.

The 2014 Sample Sale starts Tuesday

Samples from our lines of clothing, shawls, and tablecloths.

All at surprising prices: $10 - $85

The sale starts

TUESDAY January 14th at 10am

and runs until everything is gone.

Only in the Main Maiwa Store

Located in the NetLoft, Granville Island

Vancouver, Canada

All items as is, final sale.

Maiwa is on Instagram

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something new in the Main store ...

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Maiwa in India ...

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handweaving, on the loom, in a stack, on its way ...

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new yarns arrived in Maiwa Supply ...

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a natural dye workshop on Salt Spring Island ...

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antique furniture in Maiwa East ...

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something unexpected...

Maiwa on Instagram

A stream worth following

It's 2014 - Start Something

It's 2014

START SOMETHING!

10% off

everything in the 

MAIWA ONLINE

store

If it's online ...

you can get 10% off.

When adding an item to your online cart,

enter "2014" as the Disount Coupon.

Sale runs January 4 - 31, 2014.

Discount is applied to items in the online store only.

Discount is applied before taxes and does not include shipping.

Maiwa Holiday Hours

Maiwa East is open a few extra days before Christmas. 

Monday December 23, 10 - 5

Tuesday December 24, 10 - 4

Friday December 27: Open 10 - 5

Saturday December 28: Open 10 - 5

Sunday December 29: Open 11 - 5

Maiwa East will reopen January 2

and then we are back to our normal hours:

Thursday, Friday Saturday Open 10 - 5

Sunday Open 11 - 5

Do you have Maiwa East coupons left?

Coupons for Maiwa East expire on December 29, 2013

So, if you have been stashing them in a sock drawer all year, 

now is the time to bring them in. 

The 2013 Maiwa Coupons expire on December 29, 2013. 

We give out coupons at our Granville Island stores (Maiwa and Maiwa Supply) 

when you make a purchase over $100. 

The coupons are good for $20 off a furniture purchase over $200 made at Maiwa East. 

These coupons can be combined and used on a single purchase.

Holiday Hours at our Granville Island Stores

Maiwa and Maiwa Supply

We are open every day from 10-7.

The three days we are closed each year are:

December 25 & 26.

and January 1.

Happy holidays to everyone!