Nice Canvas Fabric For Sale photos
A few nice canvas fabric for sale images I found:
Happy Sleepies for Artists Help Japan fundraiser, Toronto 2011
Image by Happy Sleepy
This is one of two matching Happy Sleepie toys that we are donating to the Toronto event of Artists Help Japan.
17 April at 12:00 noon to midnight
Revival Bar
783 College Street
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Free event!
Full info on the Facebook event page: www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=208247572520178
PRESS RELEASE:
TORONTO—Toronto’s Illustration and Artistic Community comes together on April 17th in a 12 hour art-event at Revival. The unique event will raise money to aid relief efforts in Japan following the devastating recent earthquake and tsunami there. Spearheaded by a consortium of Toronto illustration studios, the Artists Help Japan: Toronto event is the local iteration of a charity movement begun by Pixar Art Director Dice Tsutsumi. The Toronto edition will feature live art shows, a silent auction, and dozens of artists and illustrators selling commissioned drawings, with all proceeds benefiting the Canadian Red Cross.
“As artists we are tremendously inspired by Japan and Japanese culture,” says Bobby Chiu, the illustrator, teacher and founder of Toronto’s Imaginism studios behind the Artists Help Japan: Toronto event. “We were all personally affected by the quake, tsunami, and resulting damage. It is important to give back for all that Japan has given us, and we can think of no better way to do so than with our art.”
Artists Help Japan: Toronto will feature more than 24 artists and illustrators from the Greater Toronto Area creating original drawings for 12 hours! This is an unprecedented opportunity for the general public to commission an original drawing from a professional artist and watch its creation in process; the artist’s fee will be donated entirely to the Canadian Red Cross.
In addition:
– Dozens more cartoonists will donate original art, books, and other rare items to be featured in a silent-auction on-site at Revival Bar.
– Live art demonstrations from Toronto Illustrators on stage, with the final pieces to be auctioned off live at the event
– from the sale of every drink at Revival Bar will be donated to the Canadian Red Cross.
Admission to the ARTISTS HELP JAPAN: TORONTO event is free, and all ages are welcome. The event will run from 12 Noon to 12 Midnight.
Judeo-Christian Hippie Store & Art Gallery
Image by “Caveman Chuck” Coker
We didn’t get a chance to go inside and meet Daniel Botkin, the artist who owns the store. I liked the name of the store and the logo when I saw it across the street while we were waiting at a red light.
Gates of Eden
129 E Washington Street
East Peoria, IL 61611-2527
(309) 699-0199
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Artist Opens Judeo-Christian Hippie Store, Art Gallery
By Nick Stroman, East Peoria Times-Courier
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
East Peoria, Illinois — A unique religious-themed store and art gallery has opened in East Peoria to recapture the “hippie generation” of yesteryear.
In July, artist Daniel Botkin moved Gates of Eden out of its location by Bradley University and opened a new spot in East Peoria last month at 129 E. Washington St., next to Bamboo Inn. Botkin said he was able to find the same amount of space for cheaper rent in East Peoria, but the main motivation was to attract more customers.
“With Bradley University, it’s so dead around there when school is out, and that can affect you for four months or a third of the year,” Botkin said.
He added he also lives in East Peoria and the new store is only a five-minute walk for him.
“Business was also very sporadic for me in Peoria, and I plan to do radio and newspaper advertising this time around,” Botkin said.
Botkin said one purpose of Gates of Eden is to act as an outreach center for the Messianic congregation.
The congregation of more than 50 people meets every Saturday at a Methodist church in Peoria they rent for Bible study and worship, but the center in East Peoria is still open for mid-week events, activities and meetings.
“This gives us a more visible presence in the community and a place where people can find us during the week,” Botkin added.
Botkin said he also decided to drop Messianic from the name of the store and call it a “Judeo-Christian hippie store and art gallery” instead.
“I think the Messianic part confused and was a bit meaningless to some people who didn’t know about our faith. Plus, the word ‘hippie’ catches more people’s attention,” he said.
“I consider myself to be a Judeo-Christian hippie with Biblical morals and a Protestant work ethic. I might even be one of the first East Peoria hippies,” Botkin added, with a laugh.
Botkin said Gates of Eden features many Israeli-imported items a customer would not be able to find in mainstream stores, and Christian and Messianic-themed tie-dyed T-shirts, jewelry and books.
There is also religious music for sale, including albums made by Botkin, who also plays the guitar.
“At this location, we are able to have a greater variety of items that appeal to many more people, so we can get customers in the door,” he added.
It is the Biblical-themed artwork featured on the store walls that will likely catch the casual customer’s eye, though.
Botkin studied art at Illinois Central College and Illinois State University and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in art.
In 1995, he began exhibiting his work professionally and received several national awards and grants.
“The Bible really inspires me, so a majority of my work carries that theme, but I have some Pink Floyd stuff, too,” Botkin said.
The artwork currently on display at Gates of Eden includes oil-based canvas paintings and mixed media pieces, featuring pistachio shells, crayon, fabric and string.
Botkin said he plans to rotate local artists on the walls of the store or will feature anyone who can deliver their pieces to East Peoria, since the cost of shipping artwork is expensive.
Botkin said while he would love to turn people on to the Judeo-Christian faith, customers are also welcome to stop by and sit and read a book.
“I realize the library is right across the street, but maybe people want to have some coffee and tea while checking out our literature,” he added.
Botkin said in addition to his advertising campaign, he plans to open the store on the night of the Festival of Lights parade to bring in more foot traffic.
However, Botkin said he is hoping to attract more than just hippies like himself.
“Rednecks are also welcome to stop by,” he added, with a laugh.
Gates of Eden is open weekdays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and closed on weekends and Jewish holidays.
For more information, call 699-0199, or visit www.danielbotkin.com or www.gatesofeden.org.
Stroman, Nick. "Artist Opens Judeo-Christian Hippie Store, Art Gallery." East Peoria Times-Courier. 8 Oct. 2008. <http://www.eastpeoriatimescourier.com/news/business/x1985674859/Artist-opens-Judeo-Christian-hippie-store-art-gallery>
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“Oh the joy of real nylon stockings”
Image by brizzle born and bred
The wonder material that made stockings, parachutes and toothbrushes
Nylons
Nylon, the first wholly man made fabric was a success beyond very one’s dreams. But the inventor killed himself because he thought he was a failure.
Wallace Hume Carothers killed himself in 1937 because he thought he’d achieved nothing worthwhile in life. Tell that to the millions of Women all over the world who for more than half a century have dressed themselves in Wallace’s wonder fabric.
Nylon, ‘a revolution for modern misses who want to look chic without breaking the bank’ as one account had it.
Nylon was the world’s first wholly man-made fabric and Wallace discovered it while working for American chemical giant du Pont. The word is derived from the initials of New York and the first syllable of London because of research done in both cities.
That was in 1935 and the new material was patented two years later. But by the time it revolutionised modern life, Wallace was dead. He was just 41.
Nylon wasn’t the first artificial fabric — that was rayon which was made from wood pulp as far back as 1884.
But nylon was strong, long lasting, easy to wash and dry, and with many of the best characteristics of wool and silk. It comes in sheets, looks like white horn, and is drawn into threads and fibres by being pressed through fine holes while molten.
But as far as American women were concerned, it could be turned into sheer stockings and underwear with the luxurious feel of silk at a fraction of the price.
Nylon stockings first went on sale in America in 1939. ‘Hurry while stocks last’ screamed the adverts, and they were right. More than 64 million pairs were sold in the first year and a few of them reached Europe with international travellers.
Du Pont got as far as inventing a nylon toothbrush before the majority of its nylon production was diverted into parachutes. The only way British women could get the wonderful new stockings was by getting friendly with American troops. Nylons became part of the wartime currency, along with candy, gum and dance band records, although it’s rumoured that some parachutes were rapidly converted into nylon knickers.
Those who couldn’t get the stockings pretended, drawing lines down the back of their legs with ink or even gravy browning (not recommended when it rained) to mimic stylish seams.
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Most women had to find ingenious methods of dressing their legs. Favourites were rubbing gravy browning or shoe polish mixed with cream on to the legs, or just leaving the legs natural and pencilling, or painting, on a seam to give the illusion of stockings.
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Nylon stockings were a luxury item during WWII and as they were subject to rationing, quiet hard to get. They were very desirable however as it was very fashionable to wear them.
But for many women, nylons were little more than a dream until December 1946, when British—made nylons went on sale for the first time.
The stockings were the first nylon consumer goods made in Britain but were soon followed by a wide range of underwear, brushes (replacing hog bristles), sails for yachts (much better than heavy canvas), surgical thread, fishing nets and engineering parts like bearings and gear wheels.
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