Barbara McClintock Watercolour Drawings and Wedding Coat

wedding coat: But the takeaway is universal: a reminder of the important relationship between those who make the clothes and those who wear them, according to Globe and Mail. In My Grandfather Coat , Barbara McClintock watercolour drawings bring to life Jim Aylesworth take on a Yiddish folk tale about creative upcycling . It follows the trajectory of an immigrant tailor formal wedding coat through several useful incarnations, until it is a toy for his great-grandchild. The inspiration was personal: The storybook is a tribute to Luxbacher father, who was a tailor in Toronto historic garment district, and it incorporates the scraps of fabric Luxbacher father collected over the years in its mixed-media photo-collage pages. Though I remember my grandparents talking about how they worked in Lancashire cotton mills from a very young age, today almost 97 per cent of the clothing worn in the western world is manufactured in developing countries. Failing that, we watched educational segments on TV about them – I credit the regular manufacturing and factory videos glimpsed through the window of the Polka Dot Door for instilling in me a lifelong interest in how things are made. Even a generation ago, class excursions to domestic factories making some kind of consumer goods were still possible in most communities. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.