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Textiles and the fiber arts, traditional craft, natural dyes, culture, trade, and artisan markets.
Like all great arts, textiles recreate our visiton of the world. We hold them up as exemplars of skill, ingenuity, creativity, and ambition....
Joy Boutrup is a textile engineer, chemist, and historian from Denmark. Catharine Ellis is a textile artist from North Carolina who speciali...
In this lecture Amy Putansu will discuss how notions of spirituality have influenced her own hand-woven artwork. Inspired by Buddhism, Zen de...
Recorded at the Maiwa School of Textiles September 14th 2017.
Aya Matsunaga is a Japanese textile artist who tempered her formal studies by moving to Nottingham, England and embracing the UK fibre art s...
When leading natural dye expert Michel Garcia goes into a garden, what does he see? He sees botanical strategies for survival that often giv...
When leading natural dye expert Michel Garcia goes into a garden, what does he see? He sees botanical strategies for survival that often giv...
For over thirty years Susan Shie has been producing art on cloth that mixes the personal and the political. Her distinct method of working c...
On October 5, 2015, Barbara Todd delivered her lecture, "Stone Drawings and Quilted Lines" or "One Day Tells Its Tale To Another." to a full...
Recorded at the Maiwa School of Textiles Lecture series on September 19, 2016.
Each member of our panel has carved a road in the wilderness. It is not easy to walk off the map, but they have all done it, struck out alon...
Each member of our panel has carved a road in the wilderness. It is not easy to walk off the map, but they have all done it, struck out alon...
Each member of our panel has carved a road in the wilderness. It is not easy to walk off the map, but they have all done it, struck out alon...
Each member of our panel has carved a road in the wilderness. It is not easy to walk off the map, but they have all done it, struck out alon...
The Artisan's Alliance of Jawaja make their presentation to a Vancouver audience at the Maiwa Textile Symposium via Skype.
The Artisan's Alliance of Jawaja make their presentation to a Vancouver audience at the Maiwa Textile Symposium via Skype.
Inspired by both the colour and the plant, the Lamberts created Bleu de Lectoure in 1994. Soon their lives were given up to woad. It took mo...
Join Michel Garcia as he leads us on a walk through the garden of natural dye plants, explaining the motivation and origins of this project,...
Join Michel Garcia as he leads us on a walk through the garden of natural dye plants, explaining the motivation and origins of this project,...
In part two, Ashoke Chatterjee presents the remainder of his lecture and answers questions from the audience. Part one contained the visiual...
In part one Charllotte Kwon introduces Ashoke Chatterjee and explains the application process for a Canadian visa (Mr. Chatterjee, an Indian...
In part three Rosemary Crill explores India's trade with the west as the focus shifted from printed cottons to muslins and Kashmir shawls. S...
In part two Rosemary Crill explores India's cotton trade with the west. Printed cotton known as "chintz" changed the very fabric of life its...
In part one Rosemary Crill describes the scope and range of India's trade, its historic beginnings and describes in detail the commerce with...
In this lecture master craftsman Gasali Adeyemo fields questions from the audience about traditional techniques and about working in Africa...
In this lecture master craftsman Gasali Adeyemo will open the evening with a description of his early life in Nigeria and tell how fibre art...
Razzaque and Ismail are Khatris – a hereditary community of dyers and printers who live and work in the desert district of Kutch in Gujarat,...
Razzaque and Ismail are Khatris – a hereditary community of dyers and printers who live and work in the desert district of Kutch in Gujarat,...
In March of 2008 CBC radio's Sheryl MacKay came to the Maiwa Loft and interviewed Charllotte Kwon, Owner of Maiwa Handprints and director of...
Working to commission involves forming a special working relationship with a client. Large works for public spaces require working with arch...
In part three Karen explores India and visits both the giant tusser moth and the Salvi community, makers of a famous double silk ikat known...
In part two Karen describes her experience in Laos and explains how weaving traditions are an essential part of Laotian culture.
Karen Selk has been a textile designer and artist since 1972. Her primary focus has been weaving and fusing felt with silk. In addition to w...
Bhakti Ziek has the ability to talk to a group about her life as a weaver while making it seem as if she is sitting talking directly to each...
Bhakti Ziek has the ability to talk to a group about her life as a weaver while making it seem as if she is sitting talking directly to each...
In his episode Edwards tells the story of the events leading up to her first trip to India, how it felt to arrive, and how her life was chan...
Recorded at the Maiwa School of Textiles Lecture series 2007.
In this, the final episode, John Gillow, Noorjehan Bilgrami and Charllotte Kwon address specific questions from the audience.
In this, the third of four episodes, Charllotte Kwon speaks about how she started Maiwa Handprints and how this business led her to start wo...
Noorjehan is an artist, textile designer, and researcher. Her interest in traditional crafts led to the establishment of Koel, a workshop th...
In this, the first of four episodes, John Gillow introduces his life and speaks about his passion for textiles. John is a well established a...
Local archaeologists working in Chinese Turkestan have uncovered numerous naturally mummified and spectacularly clothed bodies of Caucasians...
Recorded at the Maiwa Textile Symposium 2007