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Marcie Good -

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_ mgood@nsnews.com |

.THE 200,000 sq.
foot hole left by:

: Eaton’s in the Park’
- Royal shopping cen-
tre wiil likely be

° filled by four new
retailers...

Linens ’n_ Things, a
“ bedroom, bathroom and ~
kitchen, superstore’ will
pen on Nov. 25 in Park
Royal South. Maria Holly
“Mowatt, leasing manager
‘ of “the mall, -said that
three’ other retailers
“including an upscale fash-
ion’ boutique will be
announced in. about a
month.“
She: is “confident ‘the -
new: merchants wili more
© than:fill the’ shoes of the
~: defunct department store.”
' “We're. looking for-
werd to finalizing it and ~
. also_about:- the: mix: that
we. think we'll be able to
‘pull: together,” she: said.
“Bringing in. up to four.
“flew. retail -concepts . will
bring a'lot more diversity
“to. the? ; shopping centre
~ than Baton’ 's did with j just
“one nail .
oo Linens .?n “Things ‘will
~ be the second store of the’. .
chain ‘in: ..B.C.,° cand
» Mowatt. "expects: that it
will become'a destination ©
“attraction. ;
Almost a year after
- Baton’, 's vacated the space,
news ‘of:a pending deal
_seems: like .a- long time.
“coming. But Mowatt said
the challenge Avas finding.

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Gil ivi

News Reporter mgood@nsnews.com

THREADS of Life, a show that weaves
traditional techniques with new ideas,
has deen stalled by a modern inconve-
nience — a2 labour strixe.

Rosalind Aylmer, a textile artist from: North
Vancouver, spent tvo years. putting together the
show as chair of the organizing committee. It would
have. started last week at the Roundhouse

Agee Centre in Vancouver, but a strike by .

“Vancouver city workers has closed the centre. Now
into its third week, the dispute shows no signs of
_ being settled.

Aylmer says the show will go on — she just isn’t
sure when. A number of workshops will go ahead at
alternative venues, and a featured speaker, Dr. Skye
Morrison, will give x presentation at the University
Womin’s Club, 1489° McRae in Vancouver, at 7

p.m. on Oct. 26. Morrison will speak about the ©

work of women in Bihar, India, who stitch the sto-
ries of their lives into their cloths. -

The show looks at the origin of techniques used
in all kinds of textile art, including tapestry, weaving,
rug hooking, quilting, lace- -making and knitting.

’ In one of Aylmer’s pieces that would have been
exhibited, screen-printed fish swim across a swath of
. cotton. Images of starving people, digitally printed
on silk, are set among the fish.

The connection, she says, is that both need clean.

water. She uses a piece of Indian fabric, also screen
_ paned to show. the origin of a 3. 00-year-old
process.

“That’s what we're trying to show, is these are
the roots, this is where we're taking them,” she said.
“We're using traditional techniques to achieve cur ©
~ own ends.’ : .

In an. atterapt to introduce fabric: arts to a
* younger generation, textile artists are holding work:
_,, Shops for clementary. school students. The idea -
” proved popular, with 18 classes booked. Those will’
go ahead, with the artists visiting the classes in their: .
schools rather than the students coming to view the -
exhibits. When the show is mounted, ‘the children
i will be able zo visit.

The show was created to mark the 30th anniver-..

saty of the Vancouver Guild of Fabric Arts. of which
Aylmer.is a past president.
the Greater Vancouver Weavers and Spinners Guil

The BC Society of Tapestry Artists, the North Shore
Needle Arts Guild, and the Fraser Valley Quilters’

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ther groups, includin Hg ae

Guild, also participated. Most of the pieces in the :

show are made by B.C. artists.

ROSALIND Aylmer stands beside her work
featuring fish screen-printed . on: cotion.
Bonnie: Adie holds. a reproductien she

made of a fragment from a 17th. century

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