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GALERNEAU, Germaine
- Born
- ?, 1905
- Died
- ?, ?
- Biography synopsis
- Galerneau devoted over fifty years of her life to textile arts. She was head technician of the Arts Department for the Quebec Minister of Agriculture from 1947-1970. A family friend Oscar Beriau invited her to learn weaving in St. Henri de Levis in the 1930s. She became responsible for the Department of Patterns and also taught weaving and gave conferences to the network of Cercles des Fermieres. Her contributions were recognized by naming a prize after her. She coauthored Le Tissage. In a regular chronicle she taught Peruvian, Mexican and Danish weaving.
- Media used
- Finger Weaving: Ceinture flechee
- Weaving
- File & Archive locations
- Canadian Women Artists History Initiative Documentation Centre, QC
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
Writings about- Dube, Richard. Tresors de societe: les collections du Musee de la civilisation. Saint-Laurent, Quebec: Fides, 1998
- Genest Leblanc, Monique. "Une jolie cinture a flesche": sa presence au Bas-Canada, son cheminement vers l'Ouest, son introduction chez les Amerindiens Quebec: Presse de l'Universite de Laval, 2003
- L'Association des artisans de ceinture flechee de Lanaudiere. Histoire et origines de la ceinture flechee traditionelle dite de L'Assomption. Sillery, QC: Les Editions du Septentrion, 1994
- Mathieu, Jocelyne. "Les Cercles des fermieres: cents ans d'expertise et d'engagement dans les arts textiles." Les Cahiers des dix 68 (2014): 93-118
http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1029291ar - Simard, Cyril. Artisanat Quebecois. Montreal: Les Editions de l'Homme, 1975
Writings by- Galerneau, Germaine. Le Tissage Montreal, QC: Les Éditions du Jour, 1975
- Galerneau, Germaine. Tressage Quebec, Qc: Ministere de l'Agriculture et de la Colonisation, 1962
http://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/2406509 - Galerneau, Germaine and Grisee-Allard, Jeanne. Le Tissage. Editions du Jour, 1975
