The Kaleidoscope Community Quilt Project
May 6 to 23, 2011
The Kaleidoscope Quilt is the Canadian Tulip Festival's visual celebration of Peace and Friendship through Colours, Culture and Community.This unique piece of textile art will be created by the Canadian Tulip Festival's 25,000 community members, in partnership with Moon Rain Centre (www.moonrain.ca) and the direction of textile artist Gabby Ewen.
The Kaleidoscope Quilt will be created using appliqué, crazy quilting and contemporary textile techniques, working with satin ribbons which will be hand-sewn into the image of a radiant tulip in full bloom with a
background of brilliantly coloured fabric diamonds pieced, embroidered along the seams in the crazy quilt style and embellished to form a radiating kaleidoscopic image.
The Kaleidoscope Community Quilt Project is a hands-on intercultural, intergenerational participatory art activity that will be set up on the festival site for the duration of the Canadian Tulip Festival.
Participants are invited to personalize a piece of fabric or ribbon by contributing a positive message of Peace and Friendship.
Messages of Peace and Friendship will be recorded and displayed, and all participants will be invited to sign, along the border of the quilt. The incorporation of these signatures into the art piece creates an active "living" record of all the community contributors and attests to the iconic quality of this legacy project.
The Canadian Tulip Festival is seeking skilled individuals to facilitate the hands-on creation as well as the integration of members of the public into this exciting large scale community quilt project.
For more information please e-mail..
workshops@tulipfestival.ca
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Thursday, April 21, 2011
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
The Kaleidoscope Community Quilt Project
Moon Rain and Gabby Ewen are excited to present The Kaleidoscope Community Quilt Project, FUNtasia, Major’s Hill Park, Ottawa, May 6-23 2011.
The Kaleidoscope Quilt is the Canadian Tulip Festival’s visual celebration of Peace and Friendship through Colours, Culture and Community.
This unique piece of textile art will be created by the Canadian Tulip Festival’s 25,000 community members, in partnership with Moon Rain Centre www.moonrain.ca with textile artist Gabby Ewen’s direction.
The Kaleidoscope Quilt will be created using appliqué quilting and contemporary textile techniques and working with satin ribbons and brilliantly coloured fabrics which will be pieced and hand-sewn into the image of a radiant tulip in full bloom.
The Kaleidoscope Community Quilt Project is a hands-on intercultural, intergenerational participatory art activity that will be set up on the festival site for the duration of the Canadian Tulip Festival. Participants are invited to personalize a piece of fabric or ribbon by contributing a positive message of Peace and Friendship.
Messages of Peace and Friendship will be recorded and displayed, and all participants will be invited to sign, along the border of the quilt. The incorporation of these signatures into the art piece creates an active “living” record of all the community contributors and attests to the iconic quality of this legacy project.
For more information check out the offical website at
http://www.tulipfestival.ca/2011/03/21/the-kaleidoscope-community-quilt-project/
Moon Rain and Gabby Ewen are excited to present The Kaleidoscope Community Quilt Project, FUNtasia, Major’s Hill Park, Ottawa, May 6-23 2011.
The Kaleidoscope Quilt is the Canadian Tulip Festival’s visual celebration of Peace and Friendship through Colours, Culture and Community.
This unique piece of textile art will be created by the Canadian Tulip Festival’s 25,000 community members, in partnership with Moon Rain Centre www.moonrain.ca with textile artist Gabby Ewen’s direction.
The Kaleidoscope Quilt will be created using appliqué quilting and contemporary textile techniques and working with satin ribbons and brilliantly coloured fabrics which will be pieced and hand-sewn into the image of a radiant tulip in full bloom.
The Kaleidoscope Community Quilt Project is a hands-on intercultural, intergenerational participatory art activity that will be set up on the festival site for the duration of the Canadian Tulip Festival. Participants are invited to personalize a piece of fabric or ribbon by contributing a positive message of Peace and Friendship.
Messages of Peace and Friendship will be recorded and displayed, and all participants will be invited to sign, along the border of the quilt. The incorporation of these signatures into the art piece creates an active “living” record of all the community contributors and attests to the iconic quality of this legacy project.
For more information check out the offical website at
http://www.tulipfestival.ca/2011/03/21/the-kaleidoscope-community-quilt-project/
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Tapestry Workshops at Moon Rain Centre 2011
“During the process of designing and weaving each tapestry, I attune to ancient mysteries of the weaver’s path. The repetition of over and under, followed by under and over, meditatively connects me to Navajo, Mayan and Buddhist beliefs where weaving, or the union of warp, or tantra, with weft, or sutra, creates harmony.” Thoma Ewen, artistic director
Inspired by the natural environment, workshop participants explore and develop their own creativity, immersed in techniques and practices developed at Moon Rain Centre that demystify tapestry weaving, making it accessible to everyone.
This weekend workshop is an introduction to the art and craft of tapestry weaving. Basic techniques are explored and practiced on small frame looms. While learning to blend colours and build woven shapes and lines, participants create a small tapestry to take home.
$225 includes materials
During this week workshop, the patterns of nature inspire woven tapestries, as each participant explores in depth the tapestry weaving process, developing and weaving a visual idea into a finished tapestry.
$475 includes materials prerequisite: Level One
Mentoring responds to the unique questions and concerns of individual advanced students. Emerging tapestry weavers are shown how to recognize and develop their own unique creative gifts, while learning to become active creative members of their own communities.
prerequisite: Level Two and portfolio
A workshop for teachers, arts educators and cultural facilitators
Weaving transmits the energy of Peace. It has a calming, harmonizing effect on people, especially on children, so is an excellent tool for today’s classrooms and community centers. This workshop teaches simple creative weaving skills and projects that are suitable for all ages, abilities, and cultural programming budgets. In this workshop participants learn how to turn the family ragbin into woven fabric art projects, how to make simple frame looms and weave on them, how to make cloth looms and more.
prerequisite: Level Two
Photography by Ken Ewen
Inspired by the natural environment, workshop participants explore and develop their own creativity, immersed in techniques and practices developed at Moon Rain Centre that demystify tapestry weaving, making it accessible to everyone.
Level One: workshops for beginners
July 23 & 24
August 6 & 7
This weekend workshop is an introduction to the art and craft of tapestry weaving. Basic techniques are explored and practiced on small frame looms. While learning to blend colours and build woven shapes and lines, participants create a small tapestry to take home.
$225 includes materials
Level Two: weaving tapestry
July 25 to 29
August 8 to 12
During this week workshop, the patterns of nature inspire woven tapestries, as each participant explores in depth the tapestry weaving process, developing and weaving a visual idea into a finished tapestry.
$475 includes materials prerequisite: Level One
Level Three: mentoring
Mentoring responds to the unique questions and concerns of individual advanced students. Emerging tapestry weavers are shown how to recognize and develop their own unique creative gifts, while learning to become active creative members of their own communities.
prerequisite: Level Two and portfolio
Level Four: weaving and culture
A workshop for teachers, arts educators and cultural facilitators
Weaving transmits the energy of Peace. It has a calming, harmonizing effect on people, especially on children, so is an excellent tool for today’s classrooms and community centers. This workshop teaches simple creative weaving skills and projects that are suitable for all ages, abilities, and cultural programming budgets. In this workshop participants learn how to turn the family ragbin into woven fabric art projects, how to make simple frame looms and weave on them, how to make cloth looms and more.
prerequisite: Level Two
workshop fees include all materials
camping and accommodation available on-site
For more information please contact Moon Rain Centre at
819 457 9711
Friday, December 11, 2009
The Living Tapestry Workbook is now available
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The Living Tapestry Workbook introduces the philosophy of Canadian tapestry artist Thoma Ewen, and shares her technical insights and knowledge developed over 35 years of weaving and teaching tapestry. Ewen communicates the ancient indigenous understanding that weaving is a sacred path. She illustrates how tapestry’s vital contemporary role is to transmit beauty, harmony and Peace.
The Living Tapestry Workbook is now available for order. Contact info@moonrain.ca or telephone 819 457 9711. Please check the Moon Rain website at www.moonrain.ca/TapestryWorkBook.html (PayPal available)
The Living Tapestry Workbook is an introductory guide to designing and weaving tapestry.
The step-by-step instructions simplify tapestry weaving, making it accessible and easy to do. The Workbook covers all the basics needed to get started and serves as a companion to further explorations in tapestry weaving.
The step-by-step instructions simplify tapestry weaving, making it accessible and easy to do. The Workbook covers all the basics needed to get started and serves as a companion to further explorations in tapestry weaving.
The Living Tapestry Workbook introduces the philosophy of Canadian tapestry artist Thoma Ewen, and shares her technical insights and knowledge developed over 35 years of weaving and teaching tapestry. Ewen communicates the ancient indigenous understanding that weaving is a sacred path. She illustrates how tapestry’s vital contemporary role is to transmit beauty, harmony and Peace.
Monday, December 7, 2009
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"When Thirteen Moons Entwine"
a textile arts event in the Outaouais
late summer/early fall 2010
a textile arts event in the Outaouais
late summer/early fall 2010
integrating textile arts with the natural environment
and the mythology of the thirteen moons
"When Thirteen Moons Entwine" is a professional textile arts event, inspired by the legends of the thirteen moons of the natural lunar calendar. It is an outdoor laboratory that brings together established professional textile artists with young emerging artists in the creation of textile arts installations along a scenic walking path. This festive event includes exhibitions, workshops and artist's talks at Moon Rain Centre in the Gatineau Hills in the Outaouais region of West Quebec, and collaborates with major exhibition centres in the region to present textile arts exhibitions during the late summer and early fall of 2010.
"When Thirteen Moons Entwine" presents four related textile arts aspects:
installations, workshops, exhibitions and artist's talks
For more information please visit
www.moonrain.ca/MoonsEntwineEnglish.html
or
www.moonrain.ca/MoonsEntwineFrench.html
Call to artists
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Moon Rain Centre announces
A Call to emerging and established textile/fibre artists for:
“When thirteen moons entwine”
an international textile arts event autumn 2010
integrating textiles, the environment and the mythologies of the
A Call to emerging and established textile/fibre artists for:
“When thirteen moons entwine”
an international textile arts event autumn 2010
integrating textiles, the environment and the mythologies of the
lunar calendar.
Artists are invited to propose outdoor textile/fibre art installations,
workshops and artist talks.
Deadline for submissions is January 15th 2010.
Information:
Moon Rain Centre
http://www.moonrain.ca/
info@moonrain.ca
819-457-9711
Deadline for submissions is January 15th 2010.
Information:
Moon Rain Centre
http://www.moonrain.ca/
info@moonrain.ca
819-457-9711
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Article in the Low Down Newspaper
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This article appear in the Low Down newspaper on November 4 2009. The author is Phil Jenkins.
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This article appear in the Low Down newspaper on November 4 2009. The author is Phil Jenkins.
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Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Fibre Quarterly Article
An article on the Big Weave Project, Moon Rain and fibre was published in the Fall 2009 edition of Fibre Quarterly. The following is the link to the article.
www.velvethighway.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_frontpage&itemid=1
The theme of this issue is Fibre revolution: Tapestry: before During Now & Next.
Be sure to check out this publication.
www.velvethighway.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_frontpage&itemid=1
The theme of this issue is Fibre revolution: Tapestry: before During Now & Next.
Be sure to check out this publication.
Fibre Quarterly Article
An article on the Big Weave Project, Moon Rain and fibre was published in the Fall 2009 edition of Fibre Quarterly. The following is the link to the article.
www.velvethighway.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_frontpage&itemid=1
The theme of this issue is Fibre revolution: Tapestry: before During Now & Next.
Be sure to check out this publication.
www.velvethighway.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_frontpage&itemid=1
The theme of this issue is Fibre revolution: Tapestry: before During Now & Next.
Be sure to check out this publication.
Monday, September 7, 2009
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Day Two Ends
Placing the cartoon
The cartoon is set in place behind the warp
The cartoon is set in place behind the warp ----------------------------------------
Marking the warp
A black marker is used to draw the design on the warp----------------------------------------
Caroline & Thoma weave the heron's wingtip
The weaving is on!!
Photos by
Joanne de Nobriga
The weaving is on!!Photos by
Joanne de Nobriga
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
The Big Weave Day 1
Moon Rain and it's artistic director Thoma Ewen are so pleased and excited to be participating in The Big Weave, a coming together of artists and community to create a public art project which gives adults and children the opportunity to learn new skills and to participate in the creation of a unique community artwork.
This international project is located in Reading England and will take place during three weeks in July. Part of the beauty of the project will be derived from taking the project out into the community, teaching basic weaving techniques and providing the opportunity for all to weave.
Reading photographer Joanne de Nobriga joined us and took some amazing photos of the activity. Joanne will join us regularly during the three weeks of this project and has generously offered to document the event. Thank you Joanne.
Below are some of her photographs from day 1
Thoma checks the tension of the warp on The Big Weave Loom
Thoma prepares the first shed on the loom
Three weavers settle down at the loom
Going over the design
This international project is located in Reading England and will take place during three weeks in July. Part of the beauty of the project will be derived from taking the project out into the community, teaching basic weaving techniques and providing the opportunity for all to weave.
Reading photographer Joanne de Nobriga joined us and took some amazing photos of the activity. Joanne will join us regularly during the three weeks of this project and has generously offered to document the event. Thank you Joanne.
Below are some of her photographs from day 1
Warping up
Diane and Caroline warping up The Big Weave Loom
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Checking the tension
Thoma checks the tension of the warp on The Big Weave Loom-----------------------------------------
The first shed
Thoma prepares the first shed on the loom------------------------------------------
Down to work
Three weavers settle down at the loom------------------------------------------
The first pick
The first pick of the project is laid in place
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The design
The design
Going over the design------------------------------------------
Check back to follow the progress of The Big Weave. Also please go to the Big Weave website at
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Sunday, June 1, 2008
Invitation to Tapestry Exhibition, Lyon France
The Tapestries of Moon Rain
bibliothèque municipale de Lyon
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