The Untold Story of Inuit Printed Fabrics from Kinngait Studios, Kinngait (Cape Dorset), Nunavut, Canada

• Main Authors: Shaughnessy, Roxane, Richard, Anna
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 2018
• Subjects: Art and Design; Art and Materials Conservation; Art Practice; Arts and Humanities; Fashion Design; Fiber; Textile; and Weaving Arts; Fine Arts; Museum Studies; Nunavut; Canada; Cape Dorset; Baffin; eskimo*; inuit
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/tsaconf/1106; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/tsaconf/article/2109/viewcontent/Shaughnessy_Roxane2018.pdf

The Textile Museum of Canada holds a collection of close to 200 printed fabrics designed by Inuit artists at Kinngait Studios in Kinngait (Cape Dorset), Nunavut, Canada in the 1950s and 1960s. The pieces are owned by the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative (WBEC) and are on longterm loan to the Museum....