Thor Hansen Crafting a Canadian Style at the Textile Museum of Canada

Pioneer Harvest Fabric Sample, (detail) c. 1956) A.B. Caya, Kitchener Hand-screened on heavy viscose pebble Huronia Museum & Huron Ouendat Village, Midland (1996 0106 0115E) Photo: Maciek Linowski and Zac Marshall

"In a subject that is so riddled with stereotypes and clichés, the exhibition will address whether Hansen's quest to found an arts and crafts movement that reflected a Canadian identity was noble or naïve."(rabble-rousers | what's up)

:: note :: . . . identity . . . an alternative source is simply to re-inhabit the territory via poetry, myth and sense of place . . .