Printmaking-roller repair, grinding, recovery
18 Buckingham St.
Rexdale,ON, M8Y 2W1
Phone: 416-251-3532
Don Black
Printmaking-Letterpress/Vandercook parts, supplies, lead types
120 Midwest Rd.
Scarborough, ON,
Phone: 416-751-5944
Ernest Green & Sons
Printmaking-Lithotine, gum Arabic, solvents and chemicals
Phone: 1-800-361-7136
Fax: 514-338-1979
Heidelberg Press
Litho Photos, Photo plate chemicals
139 Devon Rd. unit
3
Brampton, ON L6T-5T8
Phone: 905-362-4400
Fax: 905-362-4606
Precision Ball Graphics Corp.
Litho plates
One Corticello St. Florence, Ma, 01060
Phone:413-586-1401
Stones Crayons
Litho crayons, tusche, excellent rollers & leather
rollers repair
1525 Overhaulse Rd., Olympia, WA, 98502
Phone: 360-866-2605
Fax:
360-357-7457
E-mail:
scrayons@mindless.com
Takach Press Corporation
Excellent rollers & presses. Lithos Plates
3207 Morningside Dr. N.E. Albuquerque, N.M. 87110
Phone: 800-248-3480
Fax: 505-888-6988
E-mail:
info@takachpress.com
Ideal Metals
Printmaking- press plate backers
Phone: 905-465-3350
Modern Linoleum
Battleship linoleum press beds
859 College St.
Toronto, ON, M6H 1A1
Phone: 416-536-5748
Canadian Trueline Roller Inc.
Roler Repair, grinding & recovering
18 Buckingham St., Rexdale, ON, M8Y-2W1
Toronto, ON, M6H 1A1
Phone: 416-251-3532
Duro-Test
Light Bulbs(natural lighting)
Phone: 416-675-1623 / 800-268-3030
Anachemia Science
Printmaking materials-printmaking acids & chemicals
31200 Peppermill Court
Mississauga, ON, L5L 4X4
Phone: 905-567-8292
Fax: 905-567-5939
Montreal office: 514-489-5711
Lab Safety
Avenue Industrial Supplies
Safety matics / industrial equip.& furniture
331 Alden Rd. unit 2 Markem, ON, L3R- 3L4
Phone: 800- 267-0588
Fax: 800-332-4432
Supplies
for Ceramicists
Aftosa.com
Order
from their online catalogue. There's also a list of
U.S.-based pottery
suppliers
Spectrum Glazes
Colorful and diverse collection of colors for glazes.
33-40 Hanlan Rd.
Woodbridge, ON
L4L 3P6
Tucker's Pottery
Glazes and pottery supplies.
15 West Pearce St. #7
Richmond Hill, ON
L4B 1H6
Capital Pottery Supplies
Glazes and pottery supplies.
877 Boyd Avenue
Ottawa, ON
K2A 2E2
Phone: 613-728-0697 / 613-728-1372
Clayzee
World of Ceramics
Links to all kinds of pottery suppliers, with products
ranging from glazes, colorants, minerals, powders, molds
and much more.
Art Shop Supplies
Opus
Quality
fine art materials and picture frames for the visual
arts community.
Opus National Mail Order & Art Education
1360 Johnston Street
Vancouver, British Columbia V6H 3S1
Phone: 1-800-663-6953 (within Canada) or (604) 736-7535 Ext. 2210,2230,2215
Fax: (604) 731-3519
E-mail: info@opusframingandartsupplies.com
Daniel Smith
Artist materials.
4150 First Avenue South
Seattle,WA ,98134, USA
Phone: 1-800-426-6740(USA) / 206-223-9599(International)
Fax: 206-224-0404
E-mail: dsartntrl@aol.com
Rembrandt Graphic Art
PO Box Rosemont, NJ, 08556
Tel: 609-397-0666 Fax: 609-397-0666
Links
to Art Suppliers
Fabric,
Weaving Yarn and Fibre Supplies
Bouclair
One of Canada's largest chain of fabric stores. Order
online, or phone 1-800-268-2524 ext. 237
About
Weaving/Spinning
Check out links to all kinds of weaving yarn and fibre
suppliers, including many Canadian suppliers - even
P.O. Box 84268suppliers of qiviut!
CraftCanada
Links
to all kinds of Canadian craft suppliers
Dollmaking
Supplies
Lots
of links to largely U.S.-based suppliers.
Shor-international tools & equipment
Online catalogues fast way to check out prices on rolling mills, drawplates, etc..
Sculptor.org's
Suppliers of tools and Materials for Sculptors
Links to suppliers of stone sculpting tools. Many of
these sites have online catalogues.
East West Dyecom
Catalogue for anodized alumium in the US.
Reactive Metals
Catalogue for anodizers, findings, titanium, niobium.
Nautilus Arts and Crafts
Raw material & equipment supplier.
Access Metal Service
Metal distributor, mostly steel, catering to small users - Ontario.
Ballou Findings
Raw material & equipment supplier.
Gambhir's Imports
Canada's largest supplier of genuine stones, cameos, and pearls.
Jewelry
Supplies
Rings
& Things
Order
online.
Kingsley
North Inc.
Lapidary
and jewelry supplies.
Photography
Supplies
Photo
Video Digital Canada
Supplies
professional photo, video and digital imaging equipment.
Henry's
Has 6,000 new and used cameras in its inventory.
Online
Resources
CultureNet
An
information gateway to Canadian art, featuring Canadian
Cultural Connections.
Fine
Arts Search Engine
Fibre
arts online
The
Internet connection to the fibre arts community.
Ganoskin.com
An
information resource for jewelers.
Aboriginal,
Art Books and Music
Links
to aboriginal resources around the world.
CraftWEB
The
CraftWEB Project online community creates the opportunity
for professional craftspeople, craft organizations and
people interested in crafts to meet, share information
and promote fine crafts worldwide.
Learningstone.net
Focusing on sculpture, carving, workshops, quarries,
geology, landscape, Learning Stone fosters contacts
among people who work with stone. Be sure to check out
their StoneHoo
links
Canadian
Arts and Culture
Compuserve.ca's
extensive directory of art links.
Raw
Materials
A
scarce supply of carving stone is a major concern for
many artists in Nunavut. The Qikiqtani Inuit Association,
for example, owns only about a dozen quarry sites around
the Baffin Region. Most contain soapstone. There are
no quarries in either the Kivalliq or Kitikmeot regions.
Quarry
permits and licenses are issued by Nunavut's three Regional
Inuit Associations - the Qikitani Inuit Association,
the Kitikmeot Inuit Association and the Kivalliq Inuit
Association - and, in some cases, Indian and Northern
Affairs Canada.
Under
the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement (Article 19, Part
9), Inuit have the right to extract carving stone from
Inuit-owned land without restriction if taking it for
themselves. In the case of Crown land -- which is held
by the federal government and makes up the vast majority
of Nunavut -- every Inuk is entitled to take up
to 50 cubic yards per year of carving stone without
a permit
Mining
and exploration companies that operate on Inuit-owned
lands must report carving stone deposits that they find.
Right now, Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated's land management
department is developing a policy for informing interested
artists about carving stone found by someone doing exploration
work. They're also looking at procedures for making
the actual stone available to local carvers.
Responsibility
for quarry safety and cleanup, however, is not as clearly
defined. Often, there is no one at quarry sites making
sure that the Mine Health and Safety Act is being
followed. The Workers' Compensation Board (WCB) strongly
urges artists to establish a quarry training program
in their own community. People who complete WCB's Artists
and Carvers Safety Awareness program can return
home to train others in their community about quarry
safety.
WCB
also recommends that carvers:
-
hire someone with quarry experience to speak to the
whole community
-
identify known quarries, and the ones carvers use
most
-
take samples of the stone to test for quality and
hazardous content (like asbestos)
-
get the necessary blasting certificates.
Some
quarrying
firms are listed on the web site of the Canadian
Stone Association.
For
information on quarry permits and licences, contact:
Chief
Land Administrator
Qikiqtani Inuit Association
P.O. Box 1340
Iqaluit NU X0A 0H0
Phone: (867) 979-5391
Fax: (867) 979-3238
Web site: www.nunanet.com/~lands
Chief
Land Administrator
Kivalliq Inuit Association
P.O. Box 340
Rankin Inlet NU X0C 0G0
Phone: (867) 645-2800
Fax: (867) 645-2348
Chief
Land Administrator
Kitikmeot Inuit Association
P.O. Box 18
Cambridge Bay NU X0E 0C0
Phone: (867) 983-2458
Fax: (867) 983-2701
Land
Administrator
Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
Nunavut Region
P.O. Box 100
Iqaluit NU X0A 0H0
Phone: (867) 975-4275
Fax: (867) 975-4286
The
Inuit
Art Foundation provides some money to artists through
its Sun Grants to extract
carving stone from quarries.
Because
of the scarce supply of traditional carving stones such
as soapstone, artists should investigate alternate carving
materials such as granite and marble. These are harder
stones requiring different carving techniques. Granite
is one of the hardest of the common carving stones and
calls for specialized tools. Different types of marble,
on the other hand, can range from 3-6 in hardness, on
a scale of 1 - 7 where 1 is the softest type of stone.
Alternate
types of stone may be well suited for the creation of
items other than carvings. Marble, for example can be
used as flooring. Very good marble has been found in
the Baffin Region. Iqaluit Stone Works, a business venture
of Qikiqtaaluk Corporation, specializes in stone
fabrication. It fashions everything from kitchen
tiles to boardroom tables for Nunavut corporate offices.
It even turns slabs of granite or marble into memorial
stones for graves.
Stone
can be used to craft may useful products for which there
is a solid market, like:
-
monuments
-
tiles
-
panels
-
fireplaces
-
columns
-
blocks
-
steps
-
flagstones
-
roofing tiles
-
door knobs
-
plaques
-
countertops
-
slabs
-
statues
-
carved stone benches
-
bas relief walls
-
landscaping ornaments
-
curbs
-
sills
-
fireplaces
-
furnitures
-
columbarium (memorials for cemeteries)
-
cremation urns
-
pavers (decorative stone for walkways and laneways)
Much
more information about stone is available at The
Stone Information Centre
Landscape
designers and architects are increasingly turning to
stone products such as statues and carved benches to
enhance the grounds of residential homes and commercial
ventures. Community sculpture parks are growing in number,
and sculptures adorn plazas and buildings too. Public
sculpture represents the character of the region, and
can teach children more about the history of their area.
The
web site of the Canadian
Stone Association covers developments in the stone
fabrication industry across Canada, and provides links
to web sites of manufacturers and quarriers.
Suppliers
International Fur Dresser & Dyers Co. Ltd
e-mail:International Fur Dresser & Dyers Co. Ltd
Wholesale Dresses Skins & Tanned Leather Available. Also custom dressings on your own skins.
385 Dawson Road North, Winnipeg, Manitoba R2J 0S8
Phone: (204)231-5595 Fax: (204) 233-1328
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