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Fall/Winter 2015 Issue
Personal Encounters with Decorative Objects
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A 10th-Anniversary Collection
Editorial by John Fleming
THIS ISSUE OF ORNAMENTUM follows the technique of mosaic construction through the material history of the decorative arts in the production of objects....
Illuminating Art
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Article by Mark Raynes Roberts
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ARRIVED IN TORONTO in 1982 as a newly minted gold and silversmith from Birmingham, England, with my specialty being the fine...
The No-Face Cornhusk Doll
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Article by Elizabeth Doxtater
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he soft husk of the corn plantwas used to make a beautiful cornhusk doll.
She was instructed to play
with the children...
Maritimes Weaving Guild
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Article by Jane Tisdale
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ABELS PROVIDED BY the Canadian Handicrafts Guild were sewn onto woven items made at the Mount Allison Handicraft Guild in Sackville, New Brunswick....
Natural History on Display: Victorian Insect Art
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Article by Suzanne Moase
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N 1831, THOMAS BARNETT opened his museum of curiosities and natural history to the viewing public in Niagara Falls. The Niagara Falls Museum,...
Arcs of Colour
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A stained glass window by Quebec artist Marcelle Ferron
Article by Rosalind Pepall
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HERE ARE MANY stained glass windows in the collection of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts-Gothic,...
The Tale of the Three-Bladed Propeller
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Article by Paul Balcaen
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HERE IS AN INSIGNIFICANT-LOOKING grey wooden propeller on a hangar wall at the Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada in Winnipeg.
It came off...
Documentary Calligraphy at Kings Landing
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Article by Darrell Butler
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CCORDING TO MR. WILLIAM GANONG, the collection donor, this is one of two pieces of calligraphy by George Bragg (1783-1859) in the Mary...