Unlock the world of textures and sensations with your child in our exciting workshop, "Exploring Mindfulness through Apparels : Tactile and Sensory Adventure for Kids." This hands-on experience is designed to engage children (ages 2 and up), in a delightful journey of discovery through the wonderful realm of touch, feel, and sensory exploration. 

The workshop has a registration fee of $15 - that goes towards arranging the workshop materials. Kindly RSVP by filling the form and process the payment via Zelle or pay on the spot during registration. 

Payment details are as follows :

Zelle : +1 917-498-5132 (Bhumika Keswani)

Workshop Highlights:

• Creativity Unleashed

• Emotional Expression

• Social Interaction

• Tactile Exploration

• Personalization while crafting their own fabric swatch 

Important Note: Participants aged 5 and above are kindly requested to bring a piece of fabric, textile, or garment with them to enhance their interactive experience during the workshop. Please make sure that your child is accompanied by an adult throughout the course of the workshop. 

This workshop promises a captivating journey into the world of textures and sensory experiences, fostering a love for exploration and a deeper connection to the world around them. Join us for "Exploring Mindfulness through apparel : Tactile and Sensory Adventure for Kids" and watch your child's curiosity and creativity blossom!

Learn More www.seesowkids.com

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In the same space of the workshop you get the opportunity to discover and purchase garments from the collection that celebrates the beauty of self-love and the rejuvenating power of the great outdoors. See Sow Garments proudly presents the "Outdoors and Self-Love Squad" collection, a range of thoughtfully designed apparel that combines comfort, style, and a deep appreciation for nature and self-care.

We have an extremely fun and unique way to bring these values through interactive and thoughtful apparel for the wonderful kids. Each design has a different impact and the best part is that the kids can play, learn and gain all the positive vibes from it. We offer meaningful prints which are printed using 'low impact dyes' which cause less harm to your mini one's skin and our precious planet Earth. 

Explore the collection today and join our squad!

Join us for an epic afternoon of experimenting with color and pattern at Vive Handmade’s studio as we create a collaborative textile piece.

In a fun, judgment-free, there-are-no-mistakes environment, you will learn several textile techniques including painting, printing, stamping, and more. We'll be working with non-toxic water-based textile inks that can be applied in many ways.

Let your imagination fly as we create something magical together as a community. Bring a friend and make new friends! Beginners, experienced artists, and dreamers are welcome. 

Get an inside look at Vive Handmade and the collection of hand-dyed and printed scarves, pillows, and accessories. The studio is a playground of color, come experience the possibilities.

Note: Please wear clothing that you don't mind getting a little paint on! These colors are permanent on fabric.

Vive Handmade is created out of a deep connection to the energetic aspects of color and its ability to uplift and inspire us.

Working with water-based dyes on natural fabrics is endlessly interesting, improvisational and alive. Fiber, dye and water molecules meet in a spontaneous dance and colors emerge, merge and blend in exciting, serendipitous ways. There is an invitation to become a co-creator as intentional craft processes are applied to the alchemy of dye meeting cloth.

Vignettes: one venue, three exhibitions presented by browngrotta arts

This series of events will feature a unique format -- three exhibitions in one space. Vignettes: one venue; three exhibitions will combine celebrations of the noted wood sculptor, Dorothy Gill Barnes and famed weaver and surface designer, Glen Kaufman, with An Abundance of Objects, featuring baskets, ceramics and sculptures by more than three dozen international artists.

An Artist’s Reception and Opening will take place on Saturday, Oct 7th, from 11 am to 6 pm.

Vignette 1: Dorothy Gill Barnes: A Way With Wood

Dorothy Gill Barnes: a Way With Wood will celebrate the work of the renowned sculptor, known for weaving bark, transforming natural materials, and for her collaborations with glass artists, resulting in objects that mix glass and bark and branches in intriguing ways. Among Barnes’ innovations were dendroglyphs, markings she’d make on live tree bark, which she allowed to develop into “scars” for months or years before har- vesting and using the resulting bark “drawings" in her works.

Vignette 2: Glen Kaufman: Elegant Eloquence

Glen Kaufman: Elegant Eloquence highlights the work of this master weaver who created photo collages, using a Japanese technique to apply gold and silver leaf atop intricately woven damask fabric, often in a grid, to reflect disappearing Japanese architecture. Also included are examples of Kaufman’s early work, which included both textural weaving and macramé-knotted and interlooped, hanging sculptural forms.

Vignette 3: An Abundance of Objects

The third exhibition, An Abundance of Objects, will combine baskets, sculptures, and ceramics by more than three dozen artists from the US and abroad. Included will be work by Dail Behennah (UK), Hisako Sekijima (JP), Tim Johnson (UK), Polly Sutton (US), Stéphanie Jacques (BE), Judy Mulford (US), Gizella Warburton (UK), Mary Merkel-Hess (US), Simone Pheulpin (FR), Lawrence LaBianca (US), Lizzie Farey (UK), Joe Feddersen (US), Toshiko Takeazu (US), Gary Trentham (US), Nancy Koenigsberg (US); Markku Kosonen (FI), Tamiko Kawata (US), Christine Joy (US), Kosuge Kogetsu (JP), Kajiwara Aya (JP), Kyomi Iwata (US), Katherine Westphal (US), Dona Look (US), John McQueen (US), Jiro Yonezawa (JP), Gyöngy Laky (US), Noriko Takimaya (JP), Gertrud Hals (NO), Jeannet Leenderste (US), Naomi Kobayashi (JP), Karyl Sisson (US), Willa Rogers (NZ), Neil and Fran Prince (US), Jin-Sook So (KO), Lewis Knauss (US), Dawn Walden (US), and Keiji Nio (JP).

M.PATMOS is excited to welcome back one of our favorite talented people, Miron Kiselev with his ongoing project "Expressive Repair". Sit down with him and make your mark on his quilt or bring an item to repair and he will help you make it new again!

Ages 4 and up.

Learn More mpatmos.com

@mpatmos

Established over ten years ago, M.PATMOS designs modern wardrobe staples and sophisticated, textural knitwear meant to be passed down to future generations.

Focused on high quality and minimizing our environmental impact, we’ve worked with small family owned factories and workshops for many years, merging sustainable artisan hand crafted techniques and technology to create beautiful designs in luxurious, natural fibers.

We opened our shop in the fall of 2018 in Brooklyn, New York where we focus on bringing you the best from independent designers.

Sharktooth is collaborating with Common Loom to create a month-long event, ‘beyond repair.’ This event showcases the process of unraveling a worn-through rag rug from Sharktooth’s collection, transforming its composition, and weaving it anew at Common Loom. Throughout, we will document our process and share each step in the rag rug’s renewal.

Follow our process online, visit us at Sharktooth during September shop hours, and join us on September 30 for a celebratory reception and viewing of our transformed rag rug alongside beautiful, utilitarian antique rag rugs from Sharktooth’s collection.

Rag rugs have been a key part of domestic recycling systems for much of their history. After a rug’s warp has worn through, its fabric weft can often be salvaged and woven anew. This process extends the life of the materials and offers an intimate lens into the life of the original weaver. ‘beyond repair' invites us to consider themes of regeneration, transformation, and renewal alongside the ethics of stewardship, care, and repair.

Visit us at Sharktooth during shop hours: 111 Grand Street, Brooklyn, NY | Tues. – Sun. 12:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Follow our process at www.sharktooth.nyc and on Instagram: @_sharktooth_ and @commonloomstudio

Register below to attend our ‘beyond repair’ celebration and viewing at Sharktooth on Saturday, September 30, 6-8pm

Sharktooth, co-owned by Kellen Tucker and Lorenza Lattanzi, carefully sources and repairs antique textiles to nurture their continued use. Mae Colburn’s work with Common Loom explores the expressive, connective potential of rag rug weaving. This is our first collaboration.

In celebration of the last official day of New York Textile Month, Ragna Froda presents “A Performance Queue” at L space Gallery. The featured artists working with performance are Lina Celis, Heidi Hankaniemi and Elisa Lutteral.

Sour Thoughts by Heidi Hankaniemi

From 2:00 pm to 5:00pm

Hankaniemi continues to embroider your Sour Word contributions. Over 400 cathartic bad words were submitted by visitors during her Sour Curtain exhibition at the gallery in June 2023.

The work confronts the viewer with unrealistic expectations imposed in women to perform laborious domestic activities with a smile. It's a vessel for a quiet tantrum, all the while keeping up appearances.

The Braided Hands by Elisa Lutteral

Performed by Sofia Ameglio, Serena Brunswig, Madison Chu, and Clara Wiest.

3:00 pm

The symbol of the hand appears as an expression of human consciousness. Hands have the capacity to sculpt, mold, and weave the world we inhabit but also to unravel and destroy. In this duality, hands can reshape and react to our surroundings. Making transforms both states of matter and the mind. It is an act of being present and active in the world. When these hands become intertwined and fused with other hands, they build a network, and from this network stems collective consciousness. The performative represents a unique collaboration involving four contemporary dancers who have no prior rehearsal together. The central element driving the interaction among the actors is the use of the glove. This glove serves as a tool to guide their movements and engagements. When their fingers become braided, it triggers a transformative shift in how the bodies interact with each other.

Montaña, A Refuge to Settling In by Lina Celis

3:30 pm

"Montaña: a refuge to settling in" is a ceremonial journey. It utilizes deliberate textiles and alchemical methodologies to explore our connection to existence and affinity. Seamlessly intertwining textile craftsmanship, mundane sounds, mythology, and childhood memories, the performance becomes an ode to life's intricate fabric. Rooted in the dynamic relationship between evolving identity and one's homeland, the performance draws inspiration from the Andes Mountains, expressed through deliberate movements and narratives. Comparable to a cherished "hogar" or the comforting "ruana," the performance fosters a sense of unity and belonging, mirroring the essence of indigenous heritage.

Learn More @elilutteral @heidihankaniemi @linacelisjourney

On Saturday September 30th, Lovelyskybed will present new quilts to keep you cozy for the winter season. Each piece is one-of-a-kind and machine washable.

Join us at Paradise of Replica independent record store on the Lower East Side to browse quilts and enjoy snacks and tunes.

We’ll have a few mini-quilts and pillows available too!

Learn More www.lovelyskybed.com

@lovelyskybed

Lizzie Harper is a fabric sustainability expert who, in her free time, creates the Lovelyskybed collection of one-of-a-kind quilts from her collection of scraps, swatches, vintage, deadstock and new materials. Primarily made with cotton, linen, and silk, Lovelyskybed Quilts are designed in a sophisticated yet serene palette and meant to last a lifetime.

Celebrate New York Textile Month with abc carpet and home, the NYC destination for one-of-a-kind rugs.

All month long at abc, we will be showcasing various textile artisans + specialty hand-crafted traditions in-store. We will close out New York Textile Month with an in-store Textile Event at abc's Manhattan Flagship on Saturday, September 30th to celebrate the magic of textile craftsmanship.

Learn More abchome.com

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abc is the most iconic luxury home design destination in New York City, enchanting shoppers with its unique, unrivaled high-end rug offering, paired with its expertly curated selection of artisan decor and furniture pieces sourced across the globe.

abc is not only the place where home decor enthusiasts come to discover one-of-a-kind finds, but more so an otherworldly space igniting the customer’s inspiration to bring magic home.

The Visual Art Center of New Jersey presents the work of Elana Herzog in the Art Center's Main Gallery. The exhibition: Ripped, Tangled, and Frayed (September 29th, 2023 - February 4th, 2024) will feature stunning mixed textile works ranging from raw and threadbare fabric vestiges to plush floral piecework embellished with embroidery and applique. Since 1997, the artist has been fascinated by vintage chenille, which she rips, sews, staples, suspends, and occasionally adorns with beadwork. Exhibition highlights include her signature stapled works, which involved deconstructing and embedding textiles seamlessly into the gallery walls. Herzog also showcases recent large-scale wall pieces, a new direction in sewing, combining, and accumulating different fabrics sourced from her extensive travels. Finally, a site-specific floor installation, Felled, features cut logs incised with fabric extending from the Main Gallery to the building’s exterior. Through artworks spanning from 1995 to the present, this exhibition reflects the breadth and depth of Herzog’s innovative engagement with textiles.

Learn More www.artcenternj.org

The Visual Arts Center of New Jersey nurtures the capacity for personal expression, expands the creative experience, and fosters stronger communities by empowering people to see, make, and learn about art. Through exhibition, Studio School, and community programs, the Art Center engenders connection, curiosity, and creative risk-taking among its constituents.

Clothes are where we start. We believe they should be ethical, timeless, well-made clothes designed to work together, wear effortlessly, and be part of a responsible lifecycle.

Waste No More is part of a circular system designed to upend the conventional cycle of consumerism. We’re taking our clothes back—over two million garments since 2009—and transforming the pieces that are damaged beyond repair into entirely new designs.

Join us in our Irvington, New York Studio for a guided tour of our space. We will have our latest wallworks on display and will offer a demonstration of our needle felting machine. See how we are transforming damaged garments from our take-back program into one-of-a-kind works of art, as well as homewares and accessories.

Be sure to visit the EILEEN FISHER RENEW store before or after the tour.

Our studio is a five minute walk from the Irvington, NY Metro North Train Station.

Learn More https://www.wastenomore.com/

Clothes are where we start. We believe they should be ethical, timeless, well-made clothes designed to work together, wear effortlessly, and be part of a responsible lifecycle.

Waste No More is part of a circular system designed to upend the conventional cycle of consumerism. We’re taking our clothes back—over two million garments since 2009—and transforming the pieces that are damaged beyond repair into entirely new designs.

Join us in our Irvington, New York Studio for a guided tour of our space. We will have our latest wallworks on display and will offer a demonstration of our needle felting machine. See how we are transforming damaged garments from our take-back program into one-of-a-kind works of art, as well as homewares and accessories.

Be sure to visit the EILEEN FISHER RENEW store before or after the tour.

Our studio is a five minute walk from the Irvington, NY Metro North Train Station.

Learn More https://www.wastenomore.com/

Join us on Thursday, September 28th to learn more about the rich history of Navajo Weaving from Master Weavers, Lynda Teller Pete and Barbara Teller Ornelas. Two Grey Hills Tapestry Weaver Lynda Teller Pete and Barbara Teller Ornelas are Tabaaha (Water Edge Clan) and born for the To’aheedliinii (Two Waters Flow Together Clan). Lynda and Barbara were raised along with their siblings at the Two Grey Hills Trading Post. Barbara and Lynda draw on their family and clan connections to offer insight into the world of Navajo rugs. Join us for this special event with two world renowned Diné artists and learn how their creative practice is preserving their cultural craft for future generations.

Learn More navajorugweavers.com

Barbara Teller Ornelas (Diné) is a fifth-generation master Navajo weaver and culture bearer who sold her first rug when she was only 10 years old. Her father Sam Teller (1918–2000) was a Diné (Navajo) trader for 32 years and her mother, Ruth Teller (1928–2014), was a weaver, gardener, quilter, and photographer. When Ornelas was 10, her paternal grandmother dreamt that her granddaughter would become a great weaver who shared their traditions around the world. Fifty-six years later, Ornelas has not only honed her artistry as a Two Grey Hills weaver but shared it with audiences all over the world in the form of workshops, lectures, and exhibitions. In 2023, Barbara was awarded the United States Artists Fellowship in Traditional Arts.

Lynda Teller Pete (Diné) is an award-winning fifth-generation weaver who is best known for using a traditional Two Grey Hills regional style. The belief that beauty and harmony should be woven into every rug was instilled in her from the age of six, when Pete was officially introduced to weaving. Along with her weaving, she collaborates with art centers, guilds, museums, universities, and other venues to educate the public about Diné (Navajo) history and the preservation of Navajo weaving traditions. Together with her sister Barbara Teller Ornelas, she wrote Spider Woman’s Children: Navajo Weavers Today (2018), the first book written about Diné weavers by Diné weavers since the time of Spanish and colonial contacts, as well as How to Weave a Navajo Rug and Other Lessons from Spider Woman (2020). Pete is the Director of Equity and Inclusion at the Textile Society of America and a 2022-2023 Luce Indigenous Knowledge Fellow.

Join Pollack for morning coffee and a behind-the-scenes look at the company’s SoHo studio. Rachel Doriss, VP and Design Director, will share her process of designing a textile—from the spark of inspiration (often from unexpected places) to hand-drawn artwork and the many production techniques that can be used to achieve the final result. Learn how choices of color, texture, scale, luster, and fibers all play their part. Plus, get a first-look at Pollack’s just-launched line, Spring Street by Pollack.

Go inside Pollack’s design studio and meet Rachel Doriss, VP and Design Director, to see first-hand the creative process of how a textile comes to brilliant life. You’ll catch Rachel’s enthusiasm as she takes you from inspiration to hand-drawn sketch to the many production choices—some traditional, others cutting-edge—that go into making a fabric.

Learn More www.pollackassociates.com

Pollack is a boutique design company, specializing in unique, innovative designs, and using a large and varied tool box of artistry, fiber contents, yarns and weaving techniques. The company got its start 30 years ago with the launch of its collection of textiles targeted to the high-end interiors market. Since then, the line has flourished and expanded into the contract, residential and hospitality markets, as a more decorative aesthetic was combined with the company’s solid technical foundation. The wide-ranging collection is celebrated for fabrics that easily cross the lines of these individual segments–fabrics marked by sophisticated design, intricate construction, nuanced color palettes and timeless style.

Textile Showcase at C24 Gallery will be an informal tour of textile art by a number of different artists currently on view as part of a group exhibition in our Atrium space, as well as in our project space and private viewing room. Guided by Gallery Manager Deborah Oster Pannell, participants will learn more about the artists' process, craft and inspiration, in a relaxed, conversational event.

Artists include Merav Kamel & Halil Balabin, Fırat Neziroğlu, İrfan Önürmen, Micha Serraf, and Patricia Waller, representing Israel, Turkey, Zimbabwe & South Africa, and Chile, via Germany. They work in a range of mediums and techniques, including layered tulle constructions, crocheted acrylic yarn, wool and cotton needlepoint, hand woven wool and silk, and miscellaneous fabrics.

The collection of work by these artists demonstrates the diversity of C24 Gallery's international program, as well as the depth and complexity of artistic vision that we champion. We look forward to a lively exchange about technique and composition as they relate to materiality, all in the context of celebrating a variety of contemporary textile art.

Learn More c24gallery.com

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C24 Gallery is an independent, contemporary art gallery located in Chelsea, New York. Our artists work in a variety of mediums, including painting, ceramics, photography, textile art, video and sculpture. They share a common exploration of personal and cultural identity and its relationship to history and ongoing cultural and environmental changes. Their narratives are compelling and thought-provoking, and their work is complex and nuanced. We work collaboratively with numerous non-profit organizations and other cultural institutions to augment our exhibition calendar with a variety of additional programming. Our mission is to maintain an open and accessible space for art lovers and the art curious, in the heart of one of the world’s most prestigious, commercial art districts.

At this event you will have the opportunity to view story cloths from CTP healing circles around the world. Founder and Executive Director Dr. Rachel Cohen will speak about how textile testimonials can provide a pathway for healing for survivors of human rights abuses. The exhibit amplifies the voices of women, girls, and LGBTQI people who have been silenced by systems of oppression and violence. The story cloths invite us to bear witness to their suffering, their resilience and their capacity for recovery.

The CTP approach takes inspiration from the ancient practice of making story cloths found across many cultures: Women come together to sew their 'unspeakable' stories into images in cloth. They find safety, support, community, and a vital means of self-expression. In the group therapy, they begin to experience their stories in a new way—free of stigma, shame, self-blame, guilt, and the body’s automatic response to traumatic experiences. The sewing circle becomes a community of acceptance and support for those who have been stigmatized and rejected.

As she stitches her story, one participant explains its impact: “I feel like I’ve rid myself of a heavy load, a load I carried. It’s passed now. I am getting rid of things that I had carried in my heart.”

Learn More www.commonthreadsproject.org

Common Threads Project (CTP) is a non-profit humanitarian organization that uses textile work, art therapy, mind-body approaches and group trauma treatment to provide pathways for recovery for survivors of sexual violence, war and displacement. Since its founding in 2012, CTP has established healing programs for in Ecuador, Nepal, Bosnia, Democratic Republic of Congo, and in refugee communities in the US. We believe that all survivors, regardless of circumstances, deserve deeply effective and enduring recovery services.

Clothes are where we start. We believe they should be ethical, timeless, well-made clothes designed to work together, wear effortlessly, and be part of a responsible lifecycle.

Waste No More is part of a circular system designed to upend the conventional cycle of consumerism. We’re taking our clothes back—over two million garments since 2009—and transforming the pieces that are damaged beyond repair into entirely new designs.

Join us in our Irvington, New York Studio for a guided tour of our space. We will have our latest wallworks on display and will offer a demonstration of our needle felting machine. See how we are transforming damaged garments from our take-back program into one-of-a-kind works of art, as well as homewares and accessories.

Be sure to visit the EILEEN FISHER RENEW store before or after the tour.

Our studio is a five minute walk from the Irvington, NY Metro North Train Station.

Learn More https://www.wastenomore.com/

Join us for tea and a gallery talk with textile artist and designer Sugandha Gupta about her creative process and sources of inspiration. Gupta will discuss the complexities of her intersectionality as a woman of color without color, a person with a disability, and an immigrant, and share how her intersectional experiences inform her work and practice. Exploring the different ways in which information can be disseminated, Gupta emphasizes that disability is not about overcoming one’s challenges but rather about overcoming barriers set by society. Her work navigates a world that does not consider disabled bodies and minds in the design of its existence, which has led to complex layers of marginalization and reduced expectations.

Sugandha Gupta is the Assistant Professor of Fashion Design and Social Justice at Parsons School of Design. She creates multi-sensory textiles that engage audiences through their senses. Her research interests are at the intersections of social, environmental, and disability justice. Gupta also advocates for disabilities at museums, conferences, and universities. She is an established artist and designer with over 15 years of experience. Her work has been showcased at the American Crafts Council Show, Smithsonian Craft Show, Hunterdon Art Museum, NYTM, The United Nations Headquarters, and The Met. She has won prestigious awards such as Dorothy Waxman Textile Prize, CFDA Design Graduate, and International Design Award.

Learn More thejewelrylibrary.com

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SHOP @ The Jewelry Library is featuring textile-based jewelry and wearable art by contemporary and vintage makers working with a wide range of materials, from rags and textile scraps to luxury fibers thru September 29th. 

Come by to meet makers and experts Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons for shopping, tea, and conversation! 

1239 Broadway, Suite 801

Hours: Tuesday-Friday Noon-6:00pm

Our in-house denim tailor and embroidery artist, Ramell - Correen Frederick will be providing an embroidery exhibition on September 24th. You will be able to bring in your denim garments and get your name or a cool design added by Ramell using his hand cranked chain stitch machine.

Ramell has called Brooklyn home since 2008. At a young age Ramell knew that he wanted a career in art. He has explored with various mediums over the years but started working with textiles and thread around 20 years ago. He has the answers for a lot of your denim-based questions and your guy for an alteration or to save your favorite jeans from a slow death. Additionally, as an Embroidery artist, Ramell has been making one of a kind, hand cranked, thread on fabric art for the last 5 years utilizing a 100+ year old Singer machine.

Learn More smokeyvale.com

@smokey_vale

@tattood.cloth

We are a community inspired concept space in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. We're a high-end barber shop, clothing boutique and community creative hub/space showcasing local creatives, artists, designers, and musicians etc. We are marrying Brooklyn’s sense of community, networking, and collaboration with the need that it’s ever changing dynamic, and demographic have for fashion and grooming.

M.PATMOS is excited to host Rose Pearlman - a talented Brooklyn based artist, teacher, and textile designer. With a background in fine arts and a love of well designed functional objects, her creations blur the lines between art and craft and pushes the boundaries with non-traditional techniques and materials. Her work has been featured in fiber magazines, galleries, and numerous online design sites. Rose's book, Modern Rug Hooking, was published with Roost Books in 2019 her latest book 'Making Things' will be released in Spring 2024.

And for the opening: M.PATMOS is excited to welcome and celebrate the talented Rose Pearlman. Her exhibit of new works will be on view and she will be bringing special items for sale the day of the opening. Refreshments will be served.

Learn More mpatmos.com

@mpatmos

Established over ten years ago, M.PATMOS designs modern wardrobe staples and sophisticated, textural knitwear meant to be passed down to future generations.

Focused on high quality and minimizing our environmental impact, we’ve worked with small family owned factories and workshops for many years, merging sustainable artisan hand crafted techniques and technology to create beautiful designs in luxurious, natural fibers.

We opened our shop in the fall of 2018 in Brooklyn, New York where we focus on bringing you the best from independent designers.

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO IN-CLIMATE WEATHER**

Textile treasure hunt in La Plaza Community Garden, E 9th St & Avenue C:

Come to the garden to learn and/or share textile skills. Spend some time crafting and getting to know each other; building skills and community. There are various spots in the garden where textile artists and designers are sitting ready to show you how to: spin yarn, crochet accessories, mend garments, quilt a blanket and more! If you have a textile skill to share, bring it along and find a tranquil spot to craft with others. Stick around to see 'A Fun Play about How Scary Climate Change Is' happening in the garden from 6pm. 

Learn More @ecogencollective @rfflowerr @katherinepriceweir @jasminriskstudio @jessandralondon @emma.Cali @ollie_must_create

A community research collective striving for Ecogenesis: A Utopia in which any remaining boundaries between "humanity" and "nature" have been dissolved, allowing humanity to resume its role as one part of the larger ecosystem/eco-community or earth. Where we co-exist fruitfully with all other living things in synergy. Where all forms of knowledge, culture, and wisdom are shared and evolved for the cultivation of new technologies, relationships, and beauty. Where all things created are co-created between organisms with mutual care and understanding for each other and the ecosystem, and are limited only by our continued collective enjoyment. The guiding pillars/ethics of Ecogenesis are: Regenerative (Regional), Accessible (Cottage Scale, Open-Source), Interdisciplinary, Mutualism (Co-creation, Non-hierarchical), Decentralized and Diverse.

Visit Atlantic Avenue from 3-7 pm on Saturday, September 23 for the Atlantic Avenue Textile Walk, organized by the Atlantic Avenue BID. Stretching from Brooklyn Heights to Boerum Hill, Atlantic Avenue is a long-time hub for vintage textiles. Our commercial corridor is home to a multitude of small, independently-owned, Brooklyn-based businesses that will host textile-themed workshops, trunk shows, and pop ups as well as provide refreshments, special activities, and gatherings during the afternoon and evening. Participating shops include Woolyn, Sarajo, M.Patmos, Michele Varian, Consignment Brooklyn, Wagner, Rabbi Meow Meow, Primary Essentials, Page Sargisson, Ariana Boehling, 380 Atlantic, Jao Brand, Assembly Line, Salter House, Anne Willi and more!

Learn More atlanticavebid.org

@atlanticavebk

The Atlantic Avenue Business Improvement District (AABID) promotes the long-term economic development of Atlantic Avenue from Fourth Avenue to the Waterfront. We represent over 300 businesses in the vibrant neighborhoods of Brooklyn Heights, Boerum Hill and Cobble Hill. We clean the streets, plant trees and greenery, hang the holiday lights, and close Hoyt Street to cars for free community programming in the spring, summer, and fall. We are 501(c)(3) not for profit organization.

Hosted at the NYTM Headquarters, join the fibration artists as they discuss their dynamic and exceptional works, ranging from intricately designed two-dimensional pieces to captivating three-dimensional freestanding sculptures. Speaking of the rich possibilities and boundless potential artists celebrate. Utilizing materials to push the boundaries of expression and craft new ways of knowing. 

Featuring: Liz Collins, Joy Curtis, Melissa Dadourian,  Regina Durante Jestrow, Courtney Puckett, and Michelle Segre

Courtney Puckett, courtneypuckett.com, @courtneygpuckett

Liz Collins, lizcollins.com

Joy Curtis, joycurtisartist.com, @joyecurtis

Melissa Dedourian, melissadadourian.com, @stringgirl

Michelle Segre, michellesegre.com, @michsegre

Regina Durante Jestrow, reginajestrow.com, @reginajestrow

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In this one-day exhibition, Aoi Yoshizawa will showcase her art and design work at the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York.

She will present her own custom looms from her long-term project I AM A WEAVER - an artistic research and technical experiment in hand weaving. In this project she has been investigating traditional weaving methods and reinterpreting them into contemporary practices. Her loom installations are created by combining different ancient techniques with various materials.

Her design work from collaborations with various companies such as the Finnish textile company Lapuan Kankurit will also be on display. Aoi's patterns and woven textiles are inspired by life in the Helsinki archipelago.

Visit the exhibition and meet Aoi - the exhibition will also be a space for discussions about her artwork and creative process.

Space is limited, so please RSVP! The Finnish Cultural Institute is almost opposite the New Museum.

Learn More www.aoiyoshizawa.com

@moiaoi

Aoi Yoshizawa is a textile artist and designer based in Helsinki, Finland. She engages in experimental processes that apply traditional weaving techniques to contemporary woven textiles. Her artistic practice is motivated by the repetitive actions, mechanisms and time consuming nature of the interlacing technique.

Originally from Japan, Aoi has lived in Nordic countries since 2006. She graduated from Aalto University in 2015 (MA) and the Bergen National Academy of Arts in 2011 (BFA). She currently works in a studio on the small island of Harakka in Helsinki. During September and October of 2023 she is an artist in residence at the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York.

M.PATMOS is excited to welcome back one of our favorite talented people, Miron Kiselev with his ongoing project "Expressive Repair". Sit down with him and make your mark on his quilt or bring an item to repair and he will help you make it new again!

Ages 4 and up.

Learn More mpatmos.com

@mpatmos

Established over ten years ago, M.PATMOS designs modern wardrobe staples and sophisticated, textural knitwear meant to be passed down to future generations.

Focused on high quality and minimizing our environmental impact, we’ve worked with small family owned factories and workshops for many years, merging sustainable artisan hand crafted techniques and technology to create beautiful designs in luxurious, natural fibers.

We opened our shop in the fall of 2018 in Brooklyn, New York where we focus on bringing you the best from independent designers.

Join New York Textile Lab at Little Creek Farm to dig into healthy soil and see how your material sourcing can have a positive impact on climate change.

Tour the farm and meet innovators from the agricultural and design industries who are actively working to shift our textile production systems to regenerative models. Explore Climate Beneficial textiles and engage in a Q&A panel to learn about Carbon Farming and other strategies to help us grow a textile industry rooted in social and environmental equity.

Our Carbon farm Planner will lead a walking tour of Little Creek Farm and discuss practices that are designed to draw carbon out of the air and store it in the soil. He will show soil samples and discuss regenerative farming practices. Hear from experts about raising sheep, alpacas and the connection between soil health and fiber quality. Learn about building a national farm- to- product supply chain focused on regenerative farming. Visitors will get to see the alpacas up close!

Learn More https://www.newyorktextilelab.com/

TRAVEL DETAILS

Take the train from Grand Central Station to Croton Falls

10:09 AM arrives at 11:32 PM

11:09 AM arrives at 12:32 PM

A shuttle will take you to and from the farm, PLEASE reserve your spot!

email info@newyorktextilelab.com

New York Textile Lab is a design and consulting company. We design yarns and textiles that connect designers to fiber producers and mills to help grow an economically diverse textile supply ecosystem. The resources that we provide give designers agency to make better decisions about their social and environmental investments. Our textiles embody deep value through our sourcing and production practices. The fibers we use are grown on healthy, climate beneficial soil within our region, and we partner with mills and manufacturers that are local, transparent, and ethical.

NY Textile Lab believes that the worlds textile production should grow out of abundant, regenerative systems that emerge from collective thinking, rather than centralized systems that rely on extraction, scarcity and competition.

Ever wanted to design your own fabric? In this workshop you will create a unique design and transfer it to fabric using the cyanotype process.

Paper to Cloth with Cyanotype: using cut paper collage we will create one of a kind designs that will be transfers to fabric using the cyanotype process. This workshop will be heavily design focused, employing a number of drawing exercises to get the creativity flowing.

With a background in art and a career as a celebrity makeup artist in film and television, Arielle has created a line of goods that are both graphic and fun. Blending her love of the outdoors and design.

Four Rabbit was created for those who appreciate graphic imagery, color, sustainability, lightweight traveling and who want more of it in their lives.

Learn More www.fourrabbit.com @four.rabbit

www.ariellecutspaper.com

In conjunction with NY Textile Month, The Primary Essentials is excited to host two block printing workshops with Swati Bansal of Soil to Studio.

Soil to Studio, established in late 2019, is a Brooklyn-based textile studio. Its founder, Swati Bansal was born and raised in the small town of Udaipur in India, where she was exposed to various traditional crafts by her mother and grandmother from a young age. Through Soil to Studio, Swati offers a window into India’s rich culture and access to its skilled artisans, creating all items with time-honored techniques including block printing.

The Primary Essentials opened in Brooklyn in the Fall of 2013 as a place to provide an edited mix of special objects for the home and gift, with an emphasis on how we live our daily lives.

Taking place in the garden at The Primary Essentials with Swati’s guidance, each participant will walk away with a set of 4 napkins on which they will make their own creation.

This is a two-day workshop, Saturday 22nd, and September 23rd, 2023 from 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM.

In order to attend, we ask you to secure your spot in advance by purchasing your ticket. All sales are final.

Learn More www.theprimaryessentials.com & www.soiltostudio.com

As part of our ongoing participation in New York Textile Month, please join us as we host textile artist Capucine Bourcart for a kickoff to her 2 week exhibition in store.

Capucine's works at Smokey Vale will include; The Garden and the Bugs, The Deep Sea Comedy Show and Skin to Skin.

They represent three distinct yet inter-connected bodies of work that reflect a profound fascination with exploration, transformation, and the connection between the visible and the invisible realms of existence.

Come and enjoy a night of art, and wine from our friends next door at Vanderbilt Ave Wine Merchants (www.vwm.wine). There will be other refreshments available for non-alcoholic drinkers as well.

Learn More www.capucinebourcart.com www.smokeyvale.com

@capucinebourcart @smokey_vale

Bourcart has been living in the United States since 2006, after growing up in Alsace, France. She identifies as French with Vietnamese heritage.

In her current multidisciplinary work with textiles, Bourcart uses unconventional materials such as cat fur, lint, and soil and elevates them into 2D and 3D objects, installations, and performances. She converts these materials through techniques such as knitting, felting, or embroidery.

Bourcart’s work has been exhibited internationally in numerous galleries and art venues including New York, Boston, Philadelphia, California, Colorado, Illinois, Missouri, Minnesota, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, France, and Switzerland.

M.PATMOS is excited to host one of our favorite talented people, Tajah Ellis for a day of color alchemy using natural materials from our very own surroundings. Details to follow.

Ages 5 and up.

Refreshments will be served.

Learn More mpatmos.com

@mpatmos

Established over ten years ago, M.PATMOS designs modern wardrobe staples and sophisticated, textural knitwear meant to be passed down to future generations.

Focused on high quality and minimizing our environmental impact, we’ve worked with small family owned factories and workshops for many years, merging sustainable artisan hand crafted techniques and technology to create beautiful designs in luxurious, natural fibers.

We opened our shop in the fall of 2018 in Brooklyn, New York where we focus on bringing you the best from independent designers.

M.PATMOS is excited to host a meet and greet for New York Based Natural Dyers. (Natural Dyers from elsewhere welcome!)

Please RSVP by September 20th

Refreshments will be served.

Learn More mpatmos.com

@mpatmos

Established over ten years ago, M.PATMOS designs modern wardrobe staples and sophisticated, textural knitwear meant to be passed down to future generations.

Focused on high quality and minimizing our environmental impact, we’ve worked with small family owned factories and workshops for many years, merging sustainable artisan hand crafted techniques and technology to create beautiful designs in luxurious, natural fibers.

We opened our shop in the fall of 2018 in Brooklyn, New York where we focus on bringing you the best from independent designers.