Art created by Canadian textile artists encompasses a wide range of forms including embroidery, hand woven clothing, quilts, baskets, wall hangings, rugs and tapestries - functional pieces with texture and colour that embraces the Canada's cultural fabric.
wall work, installation and lifestyle objects
Shayna Love is a Canadian textile artist. She has been involved with various textile crafts since her early childhood. Shayna’s main disciplines are knitting, crochet & weaving. She excels in fine, intricate lace designs and is dedicated to wo... (more)
textile art and handpainted fabric
Props, costumes, armour, masks
Prolific visual artist with that experiments with many styles, various substrates and mediums.
Kai-Liis Art Studio and Heed Farm Alpacas - features a selection of framed and unframed watercolours, cards, acrylics on canvas, alpaca products (hand-spun, hand-knitted items). Style -colourful whimsical to (almost) realistic. Inspiration often f... (more)
Feminist book artist Lise Melhorn-Boe creates artist's books, both unique and in small editions. For almost 40 years, Melhorn-Boe has explored topics such as body image, women's role in our society, the socialization of children, and how our envi... (more)
Nature and the environment inspire Liz Menard. Sustaining environmental biodiversity is important and a recurring theme in her work. Menard is interested in native and invasive species and the natural, abandoned and built environments where they... (more)
Original hand-hooked rugs
I create hand dyed silk textiles while exploring the infinite modern twists and turns on the ancient art of Japanese shibori resist dyeing.