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  • January Meeting
    18:30 -20:00
    2018/01/10

    55 Centre Ave, Toronto, ON, M5G 2H5

    55 Centre Ave, Toronto, ON, M5G 2H5

    Diligence and Elegance: The Nature of Japanese Textiles at the Textile Museum of Canada
    This month we have our annual trip to the Textile Museum of Canada, this time for a guided tour of the current exhibition, ‘Diligence and Elegance: The Nature of Japanese Textiles’.

    Diligence and Elegance: The Nature of Japanese Textiles presents over 50 textiles and garments from the Textile Museum of Canada’s collection of 19th and 20th century artifacts made in Japan for both everyday and occasional use. The exhibition focuses on the highly refined skills and materials by which textiles have been constructed and decorated over centuries, and on how diligence and ingenuity have shaped their timeless beauty.

    This event is for members only. Please arrive at 6:15pm, sign in at the desk, then meet upstairs outside the shop for a tour (6:30-7:30pm). Feel free to come earlier to browse the museum in your own time.

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  • Complexities and Cloth Exhibition – Opening
    18:00 -21:00
    2018/01/16

    Artscape Youngplace, 180 Shaw St, Toronto, M6J 2W5

    Artscape Youngplace, 180 Shaw St, Toronto, M6J 2W5

    Exhibition runs 15th – 26th January. The venue is open 8am – 8pm everyday.

    As part of the Toronto Design Offsite Festival, this exhibition by weaver Dani Ortman Complexities & Cloth looks at the detailed process involved in crafting woven textiles, while opening a dialogue with the fabrics of our time. Using natural and organic yarns she encourages the viewer to revaluate the value of cloth.

    Through the lens of hand weaving you are invited to take a closer look into the process of making cloth.  Where each thread is calculated to bend over and under one another, creating the structural bonds that form our fabrics.  Observing that within these bends of interwoven lines, lays the potential for delicate pattern work.

    For more information visit the Facebook event

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  • Nourish to Flourish
    14:00 -16:33
    2018/01/28

    56 Neilson Drive, Etobicoke, ON, M9C 1V7

    56 Neilson Drive, Etobicoke, ON, M9C 1V7

    Nourish to Flourish is an exhibition of works by the instructors who teach at the Neilson Park Creative Centre in Etobicoke, spanning a wide range of mediums and disciplines. Join the exhibitors at this opening reception to celebrate their skills and hard work in passing on those skills to others.

    The exhibition runs from the 8th January – 4th February and is open at the following times:
    Monday – Saturday: 9am – 4pm
    Tuesday Evening: 7pm – 9pm
    Sunday: 12pm – 4pm

    For more information: neilsonparkcreativecentre.com

    Our very own spinner/knitter extraordinaire, Diane Martin, is displaying some pieces – do go and support her!

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REGULAR MEETINGS

MONTHLY GUILD MEETINGS Beginning April 2023 we will resume holding  in-person meetings at Riverdale Farm. We will continue to hold some meetings virtually. Our Member’s Meetings are held from September-June, with a break for the summer. Check out the Calendar for up-to-date information.
If you are interested in spinning or weaving, you are welcome to join us as a guest at one of our monthly meetings.
When: 2nd Wednesday of the month, 7:30 – 9:00 pm for in-person meetings; 7:00 – 8:30 pm for virtual meetings
Where: In-person meetings are held in the Meeting House at Riverdale Farm- come in the gate and keep going past the sheep.

TEXTILE/SPINNING DROP-IN 
Guild members join Riverdale Farm staff to host textile drop-ins at the Farm once a week in the afternoons. All are welcome to watch, chat, learn, or bring a project to work on– it’s totally free! Occasionally we have themes, such as a regular Spinning Clinic. At some of the drop-ins, the Farm provides some equipment, including Lendrum spinning wheels, for visitors to use. If you want to take your yarn home, bring a Lendrum bobbin. Equipment is not available to borrow at all drop-ins.
When: Summer 2023: Tuesday afternoons, 1 – 3 pm (through September 2023) at the Simpson House Porch.
Where: Riverdale Farm, 201 Winchester St., Toronto, M4X 1B8

IN THE COMMUNITY

The Guild generally participates in the following Riverdale Farm events , demonstrating fibre processing, spinning, weaving, and other textile skills to the public. After a hiatus during the pandemic, we look forward to resuming these events this Spring.

FAMILY DAY
Riverdale Farm is a great place to spend Family Day, with lots of fun activities taking place, including weaving and spinning demonstrations and activities that the whole family can enjoy.

SHEEP CELEBRATION
Riverdale Farm opens its doors with the farm’s popular Spring Festival at which Guild members use the fleece shorn from the farm sheep to demonstrate the skills needed to wash the wool, prepare it for spinning, make yarn, dye it, and weave it into cloth. Come and watch the process, from sheep shearing on!

FALL FESTIVALS
See the Guild in action on the second weekend in September at the Riverdale Farm Fall Festival, and at the Cabbagetown Festival too!

More information on Riverdale Farm.