Maiwa East - 50% off Starts May 31

50% OFF 

ALL BEDS 

SELECTED CABINETS AND TABLES 

Sale Starts 10am Thursday May 31st 

 MAY 31, JUNE 1, 2, 3 

 only at 

MAIWA EAST 

1310 Odlum Drive Vancouver BC Canada 

 Open Thursday - Friday 10 - 5 

Sunday 11 - 5

Chris Berry Delivers the Historic Stitch

Speaking to a sold out audience, City and Guilds educator Chris Berry outlined the development of stitch samplers, their relationship to embroidery practice, and the diverse examples preserved in the historic record. Portraitists such as Hans Holbein often paid such attention to sartorial details that double running stitch patterns may be taken directly from the paintings.

The evening was augmented by a trunk show of Banjara embroideries from the Maiwa Collection. Many were for sale as a fundraiser for the Maiwa Foundation.

EVENT Wrap Party and Auction

WRAP PARTY and AUCTION

$10
Live music and dance,
food, refreshments, and auction

7:30 pm – Friday, October 26, 2012

NET LOFT, GRANVILLE ISLAND

The Maiwa Wrap Party is a night to remember. We put on a spread, bring in a live band, and let loose.

The highlight of the evening is the Maiwa Auction—it’s entertaining to watch and exhilarating to participate. On the block are complete outfits, carpets, furniture, and carefully assembled lots containing books, objects, and textiles. All proceeds go directly to the Maiwa Foundation.

EVENT Banjara Embroidery

BANJARA EMBROIDERY

EXHIBIT AND LECTURE

$15
Exhibition and Lecture
with food and refreshments

Presentation 7:30 pm – Saturday, October 20, 2012

NET LOFT, GRANVILLE ISLAND

Join Jan Duclos, a French national who has lived most of his life in India, and Laxmi Duclos, a member of the Banjara community and traditional embroiderer, as they guide us through an exhibition of Banjara embroidery.

Jan and Laxmi together run the Surya’s Lambhani Women Welfare Trust (Surya’s Garden) in Hampi, India. It is one of the most vital co-operatives working with Banjara embroidery today. The group works with local craftspeople to preserve traditional needlework skills and designs.

Well known for bold colours and a forceful design sense, the Banjara (sometimes called Lambhani or Lambada) are thought to be descended from the Roma who migrated through the mountains of Afghanistan and settled in the deserts of Rajasthan.

Since the 14th century, the Banjaras have gradually traveled down to the south. They worked for the Moghuls transporting provisions and trading goods, traveling with large herds of thousands of bullocks and carts, buying and selling sugar, salt, grain, and perfumes. Their habit of living in isolated groups away from others, which was a characteristic of their nomadic days, still persists.

EVENT Blue Alchemy

BLUE ALCHEMY

SCREENING with the DIRECTOR

UPDATE:
this event was originally booked into the 
Ridge theatre which has now closed.


New Venue!
Fifth Ave. Cinema
2110 Burrard Street,
Vancouver, BC, Canada

$15
Screening 7:30 pm – Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Join award-winning documentary filmmaker Mary Lance for the British Columbia Premiere of her latest work:

Blue Alchemy: Stories of Indigo

A feature-length documentary that explores the history, beauty, and importance of indigo, Blue Alchemy weaves together stories about textiles and culture with interviews from artists, artisans, and historians.

Mary Lance will give a short introduction to the film and lead a question and answer after the screening.

EVENT 結 Musubu: The Ties That Bind

結 MUSUBU: THE TIES THAT BIND

EXHIBIT

No Charge - Please RSVP


Exhibition opening with Misao Iwamura and Chisako Hisamatsu
with food and refreshments

6–8 pm – Friday September 21

SILK WEAVING STUDIO, GRANVILLE ISLAND

A leading textile artist of Japan, Misao Iwamura has also been a mentor to weaver Chisako Hisamatsu. This exhibition will feature exquisite and innovative works from both artists.

Please RSVP to Maiwa (604) 669-3939 or Silk Weaving Studio (604) 687-7455

(Exhibition runs September 21–October 5, 2012)

EVENT The Art of Noren

THE ART OF NOREN

EXHIBIT

No Charge - Please RSVP


Artist' Reception with Yoko and Kazuho Kano
with food and refreshments

6-8 pm –Friday, September 14, 2012

SILK WEAVING STUDIO, GRANVILLE ISLAND

Noren are the traditional Japanese cloth dividers that hang in doorways and windows.

Working with stitch resist and immersion dyeing, master noren artist Yoko Kano has worked on two major projects creating noren for the towns of Katsuyama and Naoshima, Japan. On display will be pieces showing both traditional and contemporary designs.

Please RSVP to Maiwa (604) 669-3939 or Silk Weaving Studio (604) 687-7455

(Exhibition runs September 8–19, 2012)

EVENT Living Blue

LIVING BLUE

EXHIBIT AND LECTURE

$15
Exhibition and Lecture
with food and refreshments

Presentation 7:30 pm –Tuesday, September 11, 2012

NET LOFT, GRANVILLE ISLAND

Bangladesh is one of the most suitable regions for growing indigo. However, due to the colonial history of the crop and the subsequent rise of synthetic indigo, its potential has remained dormant. Now Living Blue, a project of the Nijera Cottage and Village Industries, has revived the famous crop. They are using it to add this distinctive blue to a range of exquisite textiles.

Village artisans combine a variety of traditional stitches with nui shibori on handspun, handwoven (khadi) cloth. The results are a range of quilts, shawls, and scarves that convey the feeling of well-loved cloth.

Join Anowarul Haq and Apurba Deb Roy from the Living Blue project as they take the audience on a guided tour of some of the most exciting textiles to come out of South Asia. There will be a discussion of the cooperative and how the Living Blue project is changing lives in Bangladesh.

Lecture on May 24th: Chris Berry - Stitch by Stitch

Stitch by Stitch

Chris Berry

One of the most knowledgeable hands working in embroidery today,

Chris Berry is in high demand as an instructor, exhibitor, author and speaker.

This lecture will give a fascinating look at stitch and technique from 14th century Coptic Egypt up to British work in the eighteenth century.

Chris Berry is well known for her courses that teach the historic needlework of the Tudors and Stuarts. For over twenty years she has taught the City & Guilds advanced textile courses. For six years she was Chair of the UK Embroiderers Guild. Her recent 2011 exhibition in London, England used threadwork to explore ideas of a Venice in Peril.

Chris Berry joins us from the UK to deliver this lecture.

There will also be a Trunk Show & Sale of historic and contemporary embroidery from the Banjara community in India.

Join us:

7:30 pm

Thursday May 24th

Net Loft on Granville Island, Vancouver, Canada

TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLINE 

 or by phone 604 669 3939

LECTURE Joan Morris

Joan Morris

New Hybrids from Ancient Tools

Thursday October 25

7:30 pm NET LOFT GRANVILLE ISLAND - $15

Joan Morris is one of the most innovative hands in the textile arts today. A master dyer at Dartmouth College’s theatre department, Morris is also co-inventor of a patented process for putting precious metals on cloth. Since 1983 she has been working in the ancient technique of shaped-resist. It is both time- and labour-intensive, but Morris has found it to have many qualities that can be played against printing, photography, photo-resist, metal work, and other forms of resist such as wax.

Join Joan Morris as she presents a three-decade-long journey through the frontiers of textile manipulation. This richly illustrated talk will explore theatric, cartographic, and painterly “canvases.” Joan will show some of the altered forms that result from merging personal and historical sources of inspiration with shaping and dyeing.