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Pop-Up Vintage: The Melissa
On Saturday Mike and I got the chance to play tourist in our own town by taking a gallery tour of West Queen West with the inimitable Betty Ann Jordan, a local art writer and flâneur extraordinaire. It was a brilliant afternoon. Near the end of our tour we ducked into a brand new pop-up store, The Melissa (1080 Queen Street West) where owner Melissa Levin has loaded in her stock of flea market finds and vintage fabrics and draperies.
Full post and comments...Heads Up: Gladstone Textile Show & Sale
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Fluf gals Nathalie Butterfield and Terra Kushner join an impressive roster of fellow textile artists and designers at Toronto's Gladstone Hotel (1214 Queen Street West) this weekend to show and sell their latest wares. Dubbed pieceWORK, the show is like a mini One of a Kind but without the candles, food or admission fee. Fluf will be hawking their latest array of pilllows, naturally ($50 - $135), bags ($25 - $79) and napkins and felt napkin rings (4 for $14.50). Friday 6 - 10 pm, Saturday and Sunday 11 am - 6 pm).
Full post and comments...Heads Up: Designers Walk Sample Sale
Thursday, October 15, 2009
It's a busy, buzzy week at Toronto's Designers Walk, the city's premier assemblage of to-the-trade showrooms. Collections 2010, a three-day showcase of what's new and what's next, kicks off today for designers but regular consumers like you and I are invited to a Designer Sample Sale Saturday from 9 am - 4 pm at the DW Resource Centre (168 Bedford Road).
Full post and comments...Cheap Thrills: Kobe Fabric Outlet
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Kobe Fabric Outlet in Burlington, Ontario, just a few highway exits west of the fabulous Moveline Liquidations, has some pretty fantastic prices on fabric by-the-yard, lots of it reduced by 65 per cent. But what really stood out at Kobe were the inexpensive cushions and pillow forms. The 20" x 20" accent cushions pictured were priced at just $29.99, a great price for fabric and fill of this quality. And that's just a tiny taste, there were literally walls of accent cushions to choose from in the $15 - $30 price range.
Full post and comments...Colour Story: More About Madder
Friday, August 28, 2009
Although it can be quite vivid as in the samples below, madder typically refers to a rustier red like the carpet above or it can have a rosy, purplish cast. Madder is to red as Indigo is to blue, a valuable, ancient commodity that presaged commercial dyes by thousands of years. Madder was the basis for alizarin, the first natural pigment to be synthetically duplicated (in 1869).
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