Textile Museum of Canada
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The Textile Museum of Canada, located Toronto, is the only Canadian museum dedicated to the collection, exhibition, and documentation of textiles.
Founded in 1975 by Max Allen and Simon Waegemaekers, the Textile Museum has a permanent collection of more than 12,000 textiles from around the world. Covering 2000 years of textile history, the collection includes fabrics, ceremonial cloths, garments, carpets, quilts and related artifacts.
The Textile Museum of Canada presents curated exhibitions of contemporary work and historic and ethnographic artifacts drawn from its own and others’ collections. The museum also offers lectures, round-table discussions, workshops, music and dance performances, hands-on demonstrations, school programs and public tours.
Canadian Tapestry: The Fabric of Cultural Diversity, one of the museum’s digitization projects, provides online access to 7,000 artifacts and a second phase will provide access to an additional 3,500 items.
Several of the museum's exhibits and publications have won multiple awards, including
- Cloth & Clay: Communicating Culture (2003) [1][2]
- Canadian Tapestry: The Fabric of Cultural Diversity (2006) [3]
- A Terrible Beauty: An Installation (2006) [4]
- Thor Hansen: Crafting a Canadian Style (2006) [5]
