Hazel Meyer

KNITDOWN S.V.P.Book launching!

Sunday April 1, 2007, from 1 pm to 4 pm

At La Cornetteria, 6528 blvd St. Laurent (between Beaubien & St. Zotique)

Knitdown s.v.p. is an art book /auxiliary industry manual consisting of drawings on sticky notes produced over the four years Hazel Meyer worked as a fabric designer at a circular-knit mill in Montréal. The term knitdown s.v.p. is textile industry jargon for "a sample of a few meters please", and was a phrase written countless times by Hazel Meyer as she exchanged hundreds of these notes with the knitters that worked in the conjoining mill. Knitdown s.v.p is a collection of 197 of these drawn requests that were stealthily collected and saved by her co-worker, Ann Smith, and presented to Hazel upon her resignation.

Knitdown s.v.p. is a 210 page full-colour, perfect-bound book with texts by Ann Smith, and Hazel Meyer. The launch will also include the sale of handmade objects inspired by the drawings in Knitdown s.v.p.