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2016 - the MAIWA BLOG

It's the Final Week of Simple Gifts!

Simple Gifts Week 4 is Here Visit MAIWA on Granville Island in Vancouver December 19-23 from 10am to 7pm and December 24 10am to 5pm and receive 20% off all scarves and shawls purchased in store. For yourself or someone on your list. Discount does not apply to...

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Spring Workshops - Registration is Now Open

Registration is now open for the 2017 SPRING WORKSHOPS Maiwa School of Textiles We have launched our most ambitious ...

20% Off All Bags, Wallets & Pouches

The Third Week of Simple Gifts is Here Visit MAIWA on Granville Island in Vancouver December 12th - December 18th ...

20% Off All Embroidery - Simple Gifts Week 2

THE SECOND WEEK OF SIMPLE GIFTS IS ON NOW Visit MAIWA on Granville Island in Vancouver December 5 - December 11, ...

20% Off All Clothing - Simple Gifts Week 1

 THE FIRST WEEK OF SIMPLE GIFTS BEGINS! Visit MAIWA on Granville Island in Vancouver November 28 - December 4, ...

2017 Spring Registration is Almost Here!

39 WORKSHOPS LED BY TOP ARTISANS & CRAFTSPEOPLE FROM AROUND THE WORLD Registration Opens December 12th at 10am Learn ...

Return to the Banjara – Madhya Pradesh

Maiwa is on the road travelling through Madhya Pradesh right now. One of the goals of this trip is to return to ...

Maiwa on the Road - Giving Back

Maiwa is on the road again. We are in India working on a rather epic journey that will take us to both coasts and down ...

Review - Final Lecture of the 2016 Symposium

October 19th was the final lecture of the 2016 series. Traditionally the last lecture is the Threads lecture - a ...

Textiles of the Banjara in The World of Interiors

The World of Interiors is one of our go-to magazines for inspiration in textiles, arts, and culture. So we were quite ...

Maiwa 2017 Spring Workhops — The List is Out!

Next week these will be mailed out to everyone. It's the course catalogue for our 2017 Spring Workshops, and it ...

Granville Island - Help plan for 2040 on October 15th.

Maiwa has two stores on Granville Island. We are proud to call Granville Island the "artisan heart of Vancouver' ...

Amy Putansu Wakes the Divine

On October 4th Amy Putansu took the Maiwa audience through a meditative consideration of her weaving. With reference ...

EARTH&WEAR - its about to happen...

Maiwa is participating in  EARTH&WEAR A one-night event happening Tuesday September 27 7-10pm  The Gallery of BC ...

BANJARA - photos from the opening.

For our readers who live too far away to visit our new exhibition. Here are some photographs taken during opening ...

Cat Bordhi Interview by C. Labonte-Smith

2016 marks the first year that we have had Cat Bordhi teach at the Maiwa School of Textiles. Cat's reputation precedes ...

Rosemary Crill Presents Curating the Fabric of India

Rosemary Crill speaking at the Maiwa School of Textiles In Victorian England, during the heady summer of 1851, an ...

Opening of BANJARA - Monte Clark Gallery

Meet the Banjara through image and stitch. OPENING NIGHT Thursday September 22, 6-9pm Free Admission Exhibition runs ...

Jenny Balfour Paul - Deeper than Indigo

Jenny Balfour Paul with the manuscripts of Thomas Machell - Photo Tim McLaughlin Last night Jenny Balfour Paul took ...

EARTH & WEAR - Tuesday, September 27th

Maiwa Handprints | Devil May Wear | The Gallery of BC Ceramics present EARTH&WEAR A combination of some of the most ...

Christine Mauersberger delivers a Stitch in Time

On September 14th Christine Mauersberger delivered her lecture A Stitch in Time. From the influence of family and a ...

India Flint opens the 2016 Maiwa School of Textiles Symposium

Being (t)here with India Flint Ochres, leaves, string, bundles, landscapes, maps ... the intimate territory of ...

Maiwa Supply: Welcome back to the Source

Welcome back to the source—Maiwa Supply Maiwa Supply on Granville Island has just finished renovations. We have ...