Canada Costume Museum
Popular Let’s Dance festival returns for fifth year
The Let’s Dance Prague International Festival, focusing largely on oriental dance including genres such as tribal, and styles like funky jazz, flamenco, flirt or street dance, is an event unlike any other in the Czech capital. The reason? It offers not only performances by professionals but also by amateurs, and provides workshops with world-class performers. Let’s Dance, now in its fifth year …
Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto – Ontario, Canada
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Cossit House Museum dating from 1878), Town of Sidney, Cape Breton Island, Nova Photo Mugs Cossit House Museum dating from 1878), Town of Sidney, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada, North America…. |
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2011 Kiss Potato Heads Set $38.99 Complete Set of Kiss Potato Heads. Spuds all dressed up with somewhere to go – Kiss fans rejoice! Promotional Partners company will release a series of Kiss Mr. Potato Head toys, complete with interchangeable parts. This collectors set includes all 4 members of KISS; Gene Simmons (The Demon), Ace Frehley (The Spaceman), Peter Criss (The Catman) and Paul Stanley (The Starchild). A variety of KISS c… |
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Photo Jigsaw Puzzle of Cossit House Museum dating from 1878), Town of Sidney, Cape Breton Island, Nova from Robert Harding Photo Puzzle, Cossit House Museum dating from 1878), Town of Sidney, Cape Breton Island, Nova. Cossit House Museum dating from 1878), Town of Sidney, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada, North America. Chosen by Robert Harding. 10×14 Photo Puzzle with 252 pieces. Packed in black cardboard box of dimensions 5 5/8 x 7 5/8 x 1 1/5. Puzzle image 5×7 affixed to box top. Puzzle pieces printed on RA4… |
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Marimekko: Fabrics, Fashion, Architecture (Bard Graduate Centre for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design & Culture S.) $42.00 Founded in 1951 by visionary textile designer Armi Ratia and her husband, Viljo, the Marimekko Corporation in Finland not only sparked a revolution in pattern making but also pioneered a new definition of fashion that embraced the entire home environment. This book, a comprehensive study of Marimekko designs, presents more than 100 examples of the exuberant Marimekko fashions and home furnishings … |
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Uncommon Threads: Wabanaki Textiles, Clothing, and Costume $29.68 “Uncommon Threads” celebrates the textile arts of the Wabanakis, the indigenous people living between the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the Gulf of Maine. Known geographically as the Maritime Peninsula, the region falls in both the United States and Canada. For millennia, textiles have played a vital role as Native communities have expressed and maintained their identity. This large and distinctive bod… |
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Kai Chan : A Spider’s Logic – A Thirty-five Year Retrospective (English and French Edition) $40.00 In his celebrated minimalist sculptures Kai Chan employs materials and techniques that speak to both tradition and modernity. Working with common objects such as thread, twigs and buttons, Chan alters the nature of what constitutes sculpture and what constitutes textiles by transforming elements of the natural world to evoke geographical boundaries and cultural influences. Kai Chan’s work is criti… |
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