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EDUCATION/CULTURE--"JOURNEY OF THE THREADED NEEDLE" ----------------------------------------------------------------- The first exhibition of 1997 at the Mary E. Black Gallery is Journey of the Threaded Needle, which celebrates this year's craft theme year: The Year of Needle Arts 1997. The exhibition is organized by members of the Nova Scotia Guilds of the Embroiderers' Association of Canada in cooperation with the Nova Scotia Centre for Craft and Design, and will feature 150 items by over 100 Nova Scotia stitchers using a wide variety of stitching techniques. There will be pictures in cross stitch and needlepoint, cushions and table linens in hardanger, wallhangings in applique work and quilting with surface embroidery, as well as blackwork, smocking, petit point, bargello and the increasingly popular multimedia stitchery on canvas using a wide variety of threads, beads and other items. The guilds represented in this exhibition are the Town Clock Stitchers of Halifax, the Stitchery Guild of Bedford, the Marigold Guild of Needle Arts of Truro and the Seawind Creators Guild from the South Shore. However, many of the exhibitors who do not belong to any guild, but have been stitching on their own in their homes and communities, have now taken advantage of the chance to exhibit their work. The exhibition will be opened Jan. 16 by Education and Culture Minister Robbie Harrison. The exhibition will run through to March 1. Mary E. Black Gallery is located in the Nova Scotia Centre for Craft and Design, 1683 Barrington Street, Halifax. The gallery hours are Monday to Friday 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. -30- Contact: Nova Scotia Centre for Craft and Design 902-424-4062 trp Jan. 13, 1997 - 2:05 p.m.