Eric Bergman Collection and Connection with the Manitoba Craft Museum and Library.
Published • April 3, 2024
Henry Eric Bergman, was born November 10th, 1893 Dresden Germany moved to Canada in 1913 and moved to Winnipeg in 1914 where he stayed until his passing February 9th 1958....
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Camp at MCML
Published • January 26, 2024
Camp is an aesthetic but it is not just one thing. Think extravagant over the top, but also weird and comedic, sometimes confusing but never simple or boring. The idea...
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Assisi Embroidery and Places of Cultural Contact
Published • November 30, 2023
Assisi embroidery is a form of counted threadwork, characterized by its use of negative design. This is when the background is filled with embroidery stitches and the main motifs are...
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“Tourist Art” and Authenticity
Published • September 29, 2023
The concept of “tourist art” is inescapable in a place like MCML. While this may seem like a neutral term, art made for tourists, in the art world it comes...
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“She embellished the embellishments…”
Published • June 22, 2023
The Crazy Quilt craze began in the last quarter of the 19th C. among upper-middle class American women. Though the exact origins of the style are still debated most...
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Splitting Threads: Cataloging MCML’s Needlecraft Collection
In a 10,000-object collection uniformity is an absolute necessity for providing adequate documentation and care for museum objects. Without these, our ability to retrieve information or even objects is...
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Scrapbooks in the MCML Collection
Published • February 22, 2023
The MCML collection holds a large number of homemade scrapbooks and journals dating from the 19th century all the way to the 21st century. The history of scrapbooking dates all...
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Piecing Together the Manitoba Wildflower Rug
Published • January 13, 2023
This wildflower rug, designed and hooked by members of the Crafts Guild of Manitoba Rug Hooking Group in the 1940s, is an iconic piece in the MCML collection. While MCML...
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Searle Grain: Manitoba’s Weaving History
Published • December 22, 2022
The MCML collection holds a large number of records that detail Manitoba’s rich history of weaving, much of which can be credited to the Searle Grain Company. In 1942 the...
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Edna Sutherland Donations
Published • April 7, 2022
Edna Sutherland was one of MCML’s first donors in the 1930s. Museum documentation from that time period was much less robust than now, so unfortunately we do not have much...
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