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2 -- _,,\/o,\;~/~ & @ 3 * 81 Exhibitors at Crz',ft Fair 0 sponsored by area Institutes fim......... The Bruce Centre District in slabs or mounted as Women's _ Institute _ held jewellery. f | another _ successful annual Viewing exhibits must be | craft and hobby fair at the @a hungry pastime.. The | Port E.lgm arena Thursday. -- cafeteria _ style _ community Eighty--one exhibitors -- centre was always packed. One | from as far away as Niagara -- worker said "It has been just | Falls, Sarnia, London and St._ crazy in here all day."" Thomas . drew literally The ever--widening group thousands of tourists and local _ of doll collectors in Canada | people. must have been overjoyed at | Thursday's rain helped _ what they found. | the _ fair as holidayers Dolls of every type and | abandoned beaches and description were to be seen. 5 cottages for a day of, They ranged from the usual | entertainment in town. knitted @Nd WOVEN> AOIIS -- EO ___--_oommmrrnrrnnnnnennename _z Almost every aspect of those made from apples and é bar t i °> -«;;-%I the craft world could be seen._ _ corn husks. | C s 'E F4 8 || AQJ yer>" *! While dolls and puppets Apple dolls are for Piae We 2s ~Sat: g t 3 were -- among-- the-- more. Cconneiseurs--and so are the § 3 4 * ?f " f numerous entries,, leather prices.~ They -- give _ the 3 .;-_.fi § * e £, ®e.. A .. x f _| work, art, -- ceramics and impression of wind--and sun-- ale. es U ,a* P 'a <* 4---- § macrame were well-- burnt rural people dressed in [R __| i in« Jz '1" C ;;..»'5?:' 2 & " represented. period clothing. Each one is S y¥ -- p iR 3 1M Nss [W". [ n Gordon Cross of Toronto _ Painstakingly carved by hand A . . ; :. *T iz es 2s > n f 7 gave a live]y talk on his nearly-- and _ dried. One display e k C < "a--".'"l-- M"'. o 4e ut io ll lost-- art of wood_ block _ featured a small household * FCil* e 1 _ -- en t _-- e ~ * UE engraving. As he carried on his.__ with the father playing a fiddle | 4 2 4 s t e rapid--fire reminiscences of"hi$""~and the mother in a rockimg | _ "® Bar mds s t s ogpmmatie"" S 50 years as an engraver, hisf _chair.. The texture of the dried * CC\ se *A "~.~Il E* hands moved like lightning apples gives the characters' |\ . &2 [= ks - 4 carving a replica of an 11th faces a rugged look that is W _ c t . . : century print of a knight _ almost eerie in its resemblance' $ e a* i j : i' $ covered wiht intricate flowers : to real people. --:% $s & 5 and scrolls, Knitted _ dolls, _ Pirat® quiLtIN6 AT THE HOBEY AND CRAFTS FAIR held _ Jast Wednes Small fry . formed -- an _ dolls, Indian and Snow White cay in the Pont Bigin L'unnnulni't_\'IC?.'H'\L; ":}'Ll";dS':lliin\(/').ltblh;:dzis endlc_:s:l line ';o try their luck at~ dolls were to be seen. i;«;x"sd ltl()s Otl}lm \\l)\::q 1;:-11.1-;'." l;l::k::":d 1,'".1' : hlIL's:'iL.' Mtl)";mm ie e o. fils'her;::n n.lust have been Many visitors to the fair . dernonstration on quilfimai uo l lll c(E .11 mmore than a few visitors with a Were impressed by: "'Spike"' sweet tooth. The White School Puppets. Spike is an ostrich | w.. sold $250 worth of fudge_ made by 'lrene Lutown.cz of ; before the show ended. ~Popular Hill. When a.ctlvate.d ' | The Elsinore W.1. were pmpe?fimei?lkte' with . his j : monofi strings appears kept ;zi%::ll"vlvi:es;zs& for to walk around. The efft'?ct quilts and afghans. was uncanrliy gn.d ma:y ftallr-* ) Rock hounds could find »tg}(:ers craned their ng; s vw;l'en 7* displays of the rock polisher's * y ;a.tyhsomeon'e with 119 _!_are.. Semio--precious . stones gost 1gl osm.ch stepping [ wete polishedland afferea--cu. Werisklv alone beside them uy aae