Upcoming Events
Spring Festival – May 4, 2024 from 9:30 am – 4:30 pm
UVSS – Michelle Pujol Room – University of Victoria
Registration is $50.00 and includes lunch; deadline to register is April 13th. See registration form for more details. Come spend the day with good company, good food and relaxation.
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Past Event
The Embroiderers Guild of Victoria is proud to present four completed panels which will be sent back to Scotland in early May to become part of a massive “Scottish Diaspora Tapestry”, envisioned, designed and organized by the Prestonpans Arts Festival in the southeast of Scotland.
Each of the four embroidered panels depicts an historical figure important to Vancouver Island and the lower mainland. James Douglas, Robert Dunsmuir, Simon Fraser and Agnes Dean Cameron will all take their places beside panels stitched by people in other parts of Canada and around the world, from Australia to Jamaica, Russia, Brazil and 20 other nations. The Scottish group intends to premiere the entire tapestry on 31 May this year; the complete tapestry will continue on display there until 8 June, and then will tour various locations throughout Scotland for the remainder of the year. As of 2015, it will be available for international exhibitions, with first priority going to those communities it represents.
Approximately two dozen members of the Embroiderers Guild worked on the four panels, which collectively represent some 500 hours of work.
See the write up in the Times Colonist
Update on the Scottish Diaspora Tapestry
The final count for the Scottish Diaspora Tapestry project is 304 panels! The tapestry has been travelling all over the world – from Norway to Tasmania, across to Australia and on to New Zealand. There are stops planned in Canada and the USA before it returns to London and Edinburgh in 2017. You can check the progress of the exhibit by visiting the website www.scottishdiasporatapestry.org.
If you missed ordering the “Official Guidebook” (hard cover or paperback) or “the Art of Narrative Embroidery” you can still receive your stitchers discount of 40% if they receive your order BEFORE June 1, 2016. Go to www.prestoungrangeartsfestivalboutique.org/allstitchersbooks and enter STITCHBOOK as the discount code in the cart.
Spring Festival 2023 – Stitching Together Again
Where: University of Victoria, Michelle Pujol Room, UVSS
When: Sat March 25, 2023 – from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm
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