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Inspired Design Jacquard and Entrepreneurial Textiles Conference 
HELEN MARIE DUFFY 1923-2008
Subtitled: fibre revolution: Tapestry Before During, Now & Next, this issue is built around a 1973-74 Art Gallery of Ontario extensions programme exhibition called Textiles into 3-D which toured 13 centers around Ontario returning to Toronto in time for the World Craft Council conference and "In Praise of Hands" exhibition held at the Ontario Science Centre in 1975. Textiles into 3-D, was organized by influential curator Helen Marie Duffy who passed away in September of 2008 and this issue is in honour of her. Craft Activist and artist Jean Johnson in consultation with friends and peers she complied a thoughtful portrait of Mrs. Duffy for this issue.
Art on display this fall / winter in Toronto  Jean Lurçat, Le gladiateur et la mer(The Gladiator and the Sea)202 x 153 cm, Wool and linen, tapestry-woven in St. Céré, France, 1930-1940 Collection of Textile Museum of Canada: Gift of Arnold and Betty Issenman, D: T2008.2.1 This tapestry is part of the Textile Museum of Canada's web project and exhibition In Touch: Connecting Cloth, Culture + Art September 30, 2009 - March 31, 2010 | |  Ixchel Suarez: Impressions in the Savannah. Tapestry.
Hands during The Big Weave community tapestry project Photo ©Joanne de Nobriga
Volume 5 Issue 3/ Fall 2009 now on line 
Austrian Designer Susanne Bisovsky welcomed ETN Conference attendees into their atelier in Vienna. Their shared their incredible collection of traditional Austrian folkwear, which inspires her designs The newly renovated former Vonwiller Linen Mill home of Textile Centre Haslach where the 2009 European Textile Network Conference took place
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