
Avenue article: Resurgence in Edmonton's textile arts
A couple of years ago, Ikea put out a cheeky ad that imagined life as we know it without textiles (that's right - no pillows, blankets, carpets, clothing, or uplholstery whatsoever). In it, a man wearing a cardboard suit and squeeky-ball shoes, and a woman wearing a dress made of hubcaps, live with their tinfoil-diapered baby in a house furnished with cactus chairs and wooden rugs (if you've never seen it, click here!) Obviously, the point of the video - besides selling us on