Community-based research and learning can never be prescribed. The study entitled "Intergenerational Learning in Indigenous Textile Communities of Practice," funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, illustrated this point in many ways. Although it was conceived as community-based research, it was not initially regarded as arts-based; this is what it became. Both the data-gathering and research-mobilization methods were arts-based. The study provided meaningful lessons in informal, Indigenous, and intergenerational learning within textile communities of practice of Indigenous beaders and weavers from Canada and Chile.