Mississippi Valley Textile Museum Exhibits
by Reva Dolgoy
There are three exhibits currently at the Textile Museum in Almonte that would make any curator stand up proudly if one or two were at their museum at one time, but three is an embarrassment of riches!
On the first level there is an exchange called “Patchwork” between Les Quilteuses de L’Herault of France and The Laurentian Quilters’ Guild. This is the first stop in Canada with others in Quebec till next May.
The fifty-two participants shared material, each taking from the eight squares (50 centimetre x 50 centimetre) four from France and four from Canada using at least 6 to explore, with a finished perimeter of 3.2 × 4 meters. Their work is as diverse as the personalities that one would expect from two cultures separated by an ocean. And yet differences appear, as hockey played by girls in the winter, or a Moroccan holiday, the seasons in Langedoc Roussillan before the grape harvest and the north shore of The St.Lawrence in sugaring-off time.
The exhibit has already been seen in France, it is here in Almonte till the 23rd of September and then travels to Quebec and will be at various venues for a year till May 2008.
