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  • TGSW December Meeting

    19:00 -21:00
    2021/12/08
    TGSW

    Kristiina Lahde
    Behind the Scenes of Fashion & Textiles at the ROM
    Wednesday, December 8, 2021

    Kristiina Lahde is a Collections Technician in the Global Fashion & Textiles Section at the Royal Ontario Museum. A graduate from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and Sir Sandford Fleming College, Kristiina combines her acute organisational skills and artistic expertise to collection care and exhibit preparation. Having worked at the ROM since 2003 Kristiina has prepared and installed fashion and textiles in numerous exhibitions including The Cloth that Changed the Worldin 2019, Christian Dior in 2017 and Viva Mexico in 2015.

    In 2019 Kristiina co-presented with Karla Livingston, a talk titled CEREX fabric: Solutions for storing the Textiles and Costume collections at the Royal Ontario Museum at the Toronto Area Conservators Group: Forum on Preventive Conservation.
    In 2018 Kristiina and Karla published their research report, Weightless: The Evolution of Magnetic Mounting Systems at the Royal Ontario Museum, in DRESS, The Journal of the Costume Society of America.

    Kristiina Lahde is also a visual artist who has exhibited across Canada and in the USA, her work is represented by MKG127 gallery in Toronto.

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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.

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.