Series

This series chronicles activities and achievements of
various Canadian interest groups involved in the fields of weaving and fashion
design. It contains information brochures about weavers' guilds, promotional
cards, leaflets and a pattern catalogue.

Among the information brochures preserved in the series is
the 1955-1956 membership directory of the Hamilton Weavers' Guild. This typed
booklet offers a brief description of the Guild's activities, membership dues,
annual exhibition at the Art Gallery of Hamilton, and how to borrow items from
its library. In addition, this document provides contact information for
several weaving yarn and accessories suppliers. There is also a brochure from
the Spinners and Weavers Guild of Ontario. This document provides some
information on the organization's history and activities, a list of its
officers for the year 1952-1953, along with the names of several weaving
schools, conferences and books. However, the brochure is composed primarily of
ads. Most of the advertisers are Ontario-based weavers, suppliers and guilds,
but several Quebec companies are listed as well, including La fileuse, a
supplier of weaving cottons, wools and linens from Sainte-Foy, and Nilus
Leclerc Inc., a loom manufacturer from L’Islet-Station. In this document, the
Spinners and Weavers of Ontario underscore the pleasure of weaving, which is
presented as a craft that can satisfy "the inborn desire of a man to
create."

Two promotional cards present the six-week weaving course
organized by the Searle Grain Company for farm wives in the Prairie provinces.
These cards are illustrated with photographs of Dorothy Rankine Brownell, director
of the program, sitting before a loom.

Finally, the series contains a flyer from Burnham &
Burnham Hand Weavers from Jordan, Ontario, and two documents from the Fashion
Designers Association of Canada, one of which is the program for an event
organized by the Association that includes workshops, a guest speaker, panel
discussion and fashion presentation. The set is completed by a pattern catalogue from the Canadian Fur Designers for 1968-1969.