Some of you remember last year's visit to the Montreal Centre for Contemporary Textile and Jacquard Weaving, organized by Louise de Tonnancour. On Tuesday, the Centre's founder, Louise Lemieux-Bérubé was our guest speaker and we heard about the history and anniversary activities (this year they are celebrating the 20th anniversary) of this wonderful educational and cultural resource. The talk was generously illustrated, with many slides of the school's installations as well as the work of its talented students. Here are pictures of some of what we saw.
Last minute preparations before the lecture
Louise Lemieux-Bérubé and Louise de Tonnancour getting ready to start
The school's two Jacquard looms were major acquisitions. The preparatory work for the looms as well as for the knitting and embroidery machines are computerized, compressing what used to be a hundred hours of labor into half an hour.
Some of the students' creations
Here a student incorporated glass bulbs into the weaving
The envelopes are embroidered textiles!
Dance has been one of Louise Lemieux-Bérubé's major themes in her work. Below is her weaving that hangs in the Place des Arts foyer.
An earlier piece
Recent weavings that makes use of portraiture
The two Louises
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