Textile Museum of Canada
War rugs and folk textiles from around the world spanning two thousand years of weaving traditions.
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This guide to the Textile Museum of Canada in Toronto starts in a closing shop on Bay Street, where museum co-founder Max Allen found a stack of unwanted rugs, one showing helicopters instead of the usual birds and flowers. It follows the Afghan refugee weavers who made them after the 1979 Soviet invasion, and how Allen's find grew into an exhibition of more than a hundred war rugs.
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