The Diefenbaker Canada Centre is featuring the exhibition called Resurfacing: Mennonite Floor Patterns.

Margruite Krahn from Neubergthal, Manitoba has created this exhibition as a tribute to Mennonite women who built, designed, and decorated the floors of their homes within what is described as “a challenging, male-led religious ideology, and financial constraints.”

She has recreated the painted patterns of Mennonite wooden floors in floor cloths which allows visitors to the Diefenbaker Canada Centre the experience of what the designs and decorations would look like without having to travel to Neubergthal Street Village National Historic Site of Canada to see them in person.

And a new addition to the exhibition is a hand printed floor cloth created by Mennonite, non-Mennonite and Ojibway women and girls. It was a project launched by Margruite Krahn to highlight the historical relationship between Mennonite women in Neubergthal and the women of Roseau River Anishinaabe First Nation during the 19th and 20th centuries.