click on cover image to enter Volume 6 Issue 2 Summer 2010

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Shadow Puppet Dog by David R. Harper goat hide embroidery thread 30”x19”  as seen at Beyond the Frayed Edge image provided by Laurie Carmount and used with permission

Comfort Zone blankets, sweater, scarves old family textiles things that inspire safety: this was the editorial call that was posted last November. The response was not what I expected.  I wish makers of textile and fibre based work felt their position on the creative stage was clearly defined, secure, legitimate, well documented and had a place in history that was static. This is not the case regardless of how they work what they make exist on shifting ground, and it is any thing but Comfortable.

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cloche à croquer : turnip

  Lena Guézennec, a new graduate from the Montreal Centre for Contemporary Textiles presents an exploration of fibre and thread an exploration which is specifically food based. Delicate, colourful, poetic and intriguing, her work provides a new perspective on the common (and often underestimated) root vegetable.

 

 

 At the opening reception of Around the Frayed Edges, 9 people getting into Suzen Green’s sweater "Here We Are As One"  image provided by Laurie Carmount and used with permission

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