The Future is wool

It’s a wrap! Thank you everyone for our end-of-the-term community stitch gathering. We are enjoying new natural colours and all the new thoughts through making. Slowing down and connecting with each other are the movements we appreciate a lot. You all have been very kind to join this stitch adventure. End of the winter semester 🪻 Looking forward to all the sunshine ahead of us 🌿🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑 📸 @sharmistha_kart Project lead @kathleen.sheila.vaughan RA team @gen_larousse @laine.leau @fer____su @pramilach @sharmistha_kart

It’s a wrap! Thank you everyone for our end-of-the-term community stitch gathering. We are enjoying new natural colours and all the new thoughts through making. Slowing down and connecting with each other are the movements we appreciate a lot. You all have been very kind to join this stitch adventure. End of the winter semester 🪻 Looking forward to all the sunshine ahead of us 🌿🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑 Project lead @kathleen.sheila.vaughan RA team @gen_larousse @laine.leau @fer____su @pramilach @sharmistha_kart

Join us for a pop-up end-of-term stitching gathering as we come together to stitch a new panel exploring the politics of wool. A space to slow down, make together, and open conversations around material histories, labour, and wool/textile politics. Wednesday, 15 April 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM EV Junction 1515 Ste. Catherine St. W. Metro: Guy-Concordia Drop in anytime, bring your curiosity, and stitch with us. Hosted by Project lead @kathleen.sheila.vaughan And RA team @sharmistha_kart @laine.leau @gen_larousse @fer____su @pramilach #StitchingEvent #TextilePolitics #PoliticsOfWool #MaterialCulture #ConcordiaUniversity CommunityMaking SlowMaking WoolStories PS we are thinking about our last gathering at @landmade_fibre these photos have been captured there ☺️🐑🌱

THIS COMING MONDAY! Join us for the next Canadian Wool Coffee House Monday, March 30 6pm Central Time (please check your own time zone) lasting for approximately 1 hour. We are pleased to welcome Dr. Kathleen Vaughan of @thefutureiswool (La laine : Matériau d’avenir) research project. The Future is Wool is an on-going research and creation project exploring the personal and planetary benefits of wool – emphasizing Canadian wool and celebrating wool from around the world! Through studio practice, collaborative art-making, and public outreach, we are celebrating the wonders of wool. Beautiful, ethical, and biodegradable, wool is an extraordinary material for sustainable art and design. Wool is just 1% of the world textile market but deserves to be so much more! Too much of the Canadian wool ‘clip’ gets discarded before it can reach its great potential, but awareness-raising and innovation can help change that. A centrepiece of The Future is Wool is our stitched wool tapestry, which, in multiple panels, will tell a people’s history and propose some positive futures for wool. Learn more about this fascinating project and how you can get involved at this month’s coffee house. Topic: Canadian Wool Meeting Time: Monday, March 30 6pm Central Time (Check your own timezone) Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81677083263?pwd=S256aVgyeW81SVFQbGFEN2tXbDJVZz09 Meeting ID: 816 7708 3263 Passcode: 885989 <tel:816%207708%203263;885989>

Throwback to our community event took place in December, our phone is showing memories, what a wonderful way to revisit, as we are still dreaming about all the love revived at @landmade_fibre Project lead @kathleen.sheila.vaughan RA team @gen_larousse @laine.leau @fer____su @sharmistha_kart @pramilach

We are still thinking about all of you have joined our stitching table and cultivated conversation all things woolly and sustainable. @landmade_fibre thank you for creating thoughtful event with care and love. Team @thefutureiswool

Beautiful community moments we have experienced recently at @landmade_fibre our heart is full ♥️🐑 Thank you everyone for your generous contributions to new panel with your marks and stitches 🌿🐑 We look forward to be part of such gathering soon. Photo courtesy @sharmistha_kart

@thefutureiswool is live at @landmade_fibre , with our large embroidery frame telling histories and futures of Canadian wool (best fibre EVAH!). @gen_larousse takes the first stitches on this new panel, about the politics of wool!! She’s using madder-dyed wool to stitch an image of madder Root. Naturally dyed and undyed Canadian wool@on linen, à la Bayeux!! Come and stitch with us on this collaborative project, today, March 6, 10 to 5 pm at Toronto Metropolitan University’s School of Image Arts!!

On Friday we are excited to welcome The Future Is Wool - a collaborative project where you are invited to participate by sitting and embroidering. Read through to learn about this amazing group event. #landmade #embroidery #wool #canadianwool #collaboration @fashion_tmu @rachelmachenry @thefutureiswool

Not all hero’s wear cap ✨🐑 Some advocate, nurture fibers and animals, write books, bring friends to the crafting circle 🐑 Join us at Landmade festival for our community stitching circle 🐑 @landmade_fibre We are eager to host you 🐑

Monday wools from our studio session 🌿 Seen here, how we as a team take turns on our embroidery frame. We start with a ritual of setting up the space, frames, tying knots at the edges and mutually deciding on which area each one of will continue to stitch. With some laughter, giggles and sometime serious discussion over colour, form and textures Project lead @kathleen.sheila.vaughan RA team @gen_larousse @sharmistha_kart @pramilach @laine.leau @fer____su

For The Future is Wool project, this is our first panel, which we have envisioned as a team. Community members from the ages of 5 to 90 have contributed their hands along the way. Our aim was to launch the project and work with locally farm-grown natural sheep-colour wool, as well as naturally dyed wool in various counts and thicknesses for testing. Along the way, we learned about the fibre and the stories we want to tell through our upcoming panels, highlighting our learning about various sheep breeds. We also explored ways to incorporate hand drawings and hand embroidery, with the help of technology to trace the blue lines. Now we are in the phase of knitting the yarns, connecting all the dots, and getting ready for the next panel, which we will be bringing to @landmade_fibre Fest in March in Toronto. Keep watching this space for more updates. Valorising Canadian local sheep wool, while also sharing sheep wool stories from elsewhere. Project lead @kathleen.sheila.vaughan RA team @gen_larousse @fer____su @pramilach @sharmistha_kart @laine.leau