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Regeneration of Flax: Linseed, Linen, Shive & Oil
Exhibition
The Parsons Healthy Materials Lab presents Regeneration of Flax: Linseed, Linen, Shive & Oil at the Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries on 5th Avenue in NYC. The exhibition will display the breadth of applications of products from the flax plant and encourage increased regional development of flax fiber in North America. Through the diversity of innovative designs, historic and current, our goal is to reconnect designers with the lifecycle of their materials.
Flax has been used for centuries for ropemaking, as a food source, and for textiles. It is a bio-based replacement for petrochemical-based products. The entire flax plant (Linum Usitatissimum) can be utilized, leading to zero-waste, healthier materials for textiles, finishes, paints, insulation and flooring. Through showcasing photography, material samples, written text, diagrams and artwork, the exhibit will display the flax plant through its life cycle, in various applications, and ultimately its compostability. Currently, fiber flax is primarily grown in Western Europe. Our exhibition will bring discourse to revitalization efforts of flax for linen textile production in North America. Additionally, the exhibition will highlight and display the use of linseed oil and shive byproducts for the built environment.
In response to the current climate crisis, our exhibition and related public programming will contribute to the crucial discussion concerning carbon sequestration, regional economies and the ongoing shift towards healthier, bio-based materials.
Exhibition: September 30th-November 12th, Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries 66 5th Avenue, NY
Opening & Panel Discussion: October 7th, Register Here
Spinning Workshop: October 30th, Register Here, Limited Registration for Students of Parsons
Healthy Materials Lab is a design research lab at Parsons School of Design. They are dedicated to a world in which people’s health is placed at the center of all design decisions. They are committed to raising awareness about toxic chemicals in building products and to creating resources for designers and architects to make healthier places for all people to live. With a dedicated team of design researchers, faculty, and student researchers, they work every day to creatively raise awareness of the impacts materials can have on our lives… and equip designers and architects with knowledge to build healthier places for all people to live and understand the lifecycle of their material choices.
EcoThreads Sustainable Smart Textile Workshop
Workshop
Please join The Hybrid Body Lab for a one-day workshop in NYC to DIY sustainable functional fiber for e-textiles.
E-textile fabrication combines soft textile materials and hardware prototyping processes. However, rapidly prototyped e-textile projects often become a mixture of textile and electronic waste that presents challenges to recycling. The permanency of the material can become an added environmental burden. The EcoThreads sustainable smart textile workshop will let participants incorporate sustainable practices into their smart textile craft and will cover hands-on experience for fabricating EcoThreads materials.
During this workshop, attendees will get hands-on experience learning wet spinning techniques for functional fibers and fabricating e-textile swatching for various sensing functions. This workshop will focus on the experimentation of material and technological investigation and let them incorporate their own artistic style into your fabrication. Using biodegradable material choices, EcoThreads aims to provide a path for individual creators to incorporate sustainable smart textile practices into their work. They will guide the participants through the process of working with EcoThreads, from thread fabrication to swatch creation using your preferred textile crafting technique: weaving, knitting, braiding, and stitching. At the end, they will host a discussion and reflection session to allow attendees to share their experiences with other people in the workshop.
www.hybridbodylab.com/ecothreads-workshops
The Hybrid Body Lab at Cornell University, founded and directed by Prof. Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao, focuses on the invention of culturally-inspired materials, processes, and tools for crafting technology on and into the body surface. Designing across scales, they explore how body scale interfaces can enhance our relations with everyday products and both natural and man-made environments. They conduct research at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction, Wearable & Ubiquitous Computing, Digital Fabrication, Interaction Design, Fashion Design, and Body Art. They synthesize this knowledge to contribute a culturally-sensitive lens to the future of designs that interface the body and the environment.
Workshop ” YOROKE＂Weaving
Workshop
Join Loop of the Loom for a unique opportunity to delve into the captivating world of Yoroke-ori and dying with master weaver Yukiko Yokoyama.
Loop of the Loom will hold a workshop to learn the rare hand-weaving technique of Yoroke-ori, aka Ondure weaving, which creates enchanting curves on warp threads. They have invited Yokoyama from Japan, who possesses outstanding skills and experience among the globally rare Ondure weaving artists, to offer the participant to learn special weaving techniques using unique tools and the techniques of warp dyeing that enhance them over the course of two days.
The dyeing technique to be learned this time can be applied not only to Yoroke-ori but also to regular weaving. As the weaving workshop includes the process of setting meticulous warp threads, it is designed for intermediate to advanced-level participants.
During Yokoyama's visit to New York after 8 years, she will generously impart the masterful techniques and knowledge born from 50 years of experience to many people.
Don't miss this extraordinary opportunity to explore the art of yoroke-ori with Yukiko Yokoyama.
Loop of the Loom is a wonderful retreat for those seeking relaxation through textile art. It allows participants to unleash their infinite creativity using looms and various textures. Since 2005, we have offered ""Zen weaving"" a free-spirited approach to weaving with SAORI's weaving philosophy that breaks away from traditional weaving concepts.
At their two weaving dojos, they sell Japanese natural dyes, organic yarns, and SAORI looms, carefully curated with sustainability and wellness in mind and suitable for environmentally conscious crafters.
Tickets costs $300.
Tapestry Weaving Workshop
Workshop
Amirtha Arasu and Lin Qiqing will host a workshop to teach the basics of tapestry weaving and how to use a simple frame loom. Participants will be introduced to non- traditional materials such as hand-made paper yarn, and natural fibers such as cotton, hemp, and linen. Each participant will be able to take a hand-made loom home after the workshop, so you can keep on weaving!
Fibers will also be provided.
amirthaarassu.wixsite.com/amirtha-arasu
Amirtha Arasu and Lin Qiqing are both distinguished textile artists, each with a unique approach to weaving.
Amirtha Arasu is based in New York and is renowned for her woven sculptures that blend man-made and natural materials. Her work examines the relationship between humanity and the natural world, using intricate textures and combinations to evoke a dialogue about environmental and existential themes.
Lin Qiqing (pronounced Chi-Ching), based in Brooklyn, explores themes of feminism, language, accessibility, and politics through her textile art. Her weaving practice addresses these complex concepts, using textiles as a medium to reflect on and engage with social and political issues, often highlighting the power of materiality to convey nuanced narratives.
Tickets costs $30.
The Blending Project II
Open Studio
New York Textile Month is a time when textile makers create radical conversations and connect with their ingenious community. This coming 2024 New York Textile Month, Annie Coggan and Janis Stemmermann will be inviting people to Russell Janis Gallery for two days of community quilting on a series of digitally printed textile images. These images are generated by combining Coggan and Stemmermann’s immediate bodies of work. Images built by ceramics, chairs, block printing and smocking are all blended by the Midjourney AI platform, creating more than just patterns but a series of provocations. The large scale digital images will result in four life size quilts.
At the September 27th and 28th 2024 quilting sessions, Annie and Janis will discuss and demonstrate their use of AI, ponder their collaboration and simple quilting techniques; all to create a new brand of collaboration where haptic practices and tecnology unite for a new textile future.
Artists Russell Steinert and Janis Stemmermann met in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in 1990 and launched the Russell Janis website in 2012 as a platform to experiment with presenting visual, cultural and art-making ideas. In 2014, they moved into the current studio location. They facilitate and exhibit projects with invited artists across disciplines.
In 2020, during the pandemic, Russell and Janis established a presence at Fiddle Styx and studios for their art practices in the northwestern Connecticut in Sharon in a former childrens’ violin school.
Workshop: KASURI Warp Dyeing with Japanese textile artist Yukiko Yokoyama
Workshop
Loop of the Loom receives Yukiko Yokoyama, a Japanese artist with 40 years of experience who is also holding a third exhibition in New York this fall, to teach simple techniques with many secret tips for warp dyeing and methods for setting the warp threads to maximize pattern potential. This technique not only highlights her unique Yoroke weaving but also serves as a valuable ticket for advancing to someone next stage of hand weaving. This is an intermediate level but beginners level are also allowed, however, the instruction will be tailored for those with some knowledge of warp setting on a two-shaft loom.
Participants will practice with pre-dyed Kasuri yarn by warping. And the instructor demonstrates how to thread them onto the reed and insert them into a 2-shaft loom. If time permits, some participants may try threading on each loom. After grasping the image post-threading, each participant will dye their own undyed wool yarn. Dyeing will use synthetic dyes and microwave methods. Attendees can take home the dyed yarn, but it will be wet, so please bring a plastic bag for transport.
They recommend also attending a Yoroke weaving workshop (9/29 or 10/5), which will add to your skills and help you create even more beautiful Yoroke weaving.
Loop of the Loom is a wonderful retreat for those seeking relaxation through textile art. It allows participants to unleash their infinite creativity using looms and various textures. Since 2005, we have offered ""Zen weaving"" a free-spirited approach to weaving with SAORI's weaving philosophy that breaks away from traditional weaving concepts.
At our two weaving dojos, we sell Japanese natural dyes, organic yarns, and SAORI looms, carefully curated with sustainability and wellness in mind and suitable for environmentally conscious crafters.
Tickets costs $200.
Carbon Farm Tour 2024
Farm Tour
Join New York Textile Lab at Faraway Farm Alpacas 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, design, and manufacturing industries who are actively working to shift our regional textile systems to regenerative, abundant models. Explore Climate Beneficial textiles and engage in a Q&A panel to learn about carbon farm protocols, cooperative economic frameworks, and other strategies to help us grow a textile industry rooted in social and environmental equity.
Our Carbon Farm Planner will give a talk about practices that are used on the farm to sink carbon into the soil and visitors will have a tour of Faraway Farm to learn about their composting system. Hear from experts about regional fiber cultivation, processing and manufacturing, and the connection between soil health and fiber quality. Learn about building a bioregional farm- to- product supply chain focused on slow growth models. Visitors will get to see the alpacas up close!
TRAVEL DETAILS
Take the train from Grand Central Station to Croton Harmon
10:45 AM arrives at 11:53 PM (train to Croton Harmon)
10:50 AM arrives at 11:43 PM (train to Poughkeepsie)
11:23am arrives at 12:37pm (train to Croton Harmon)
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 world's 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.
World Hope Forum ANTI_FASHION
ANTI_FASHION
Curated by Li Edelkoort & Philip Fimmano, Co-Founders, WHF
Since its creation in 2014, Li Edelkoort's much-talked about ANTI_FASHION Manifesto was the first to raise awareness about the shifts and upheavals experienced in the global garment system. Ten years on, the world has changed as much as the fashion industry itself; often welcoming a more restrained approach that combats fast consumption, spurring a powerful movement towards sustainability, creativity, diversity and uniqueness. To celebrate the tenth anniversary of ANTI_FASHION, World Hope Forum is pleased to present a special webinar, sharing stories of people that lead by example — a slow fashion revolution that includes independent brands, folk favourites, outsider artists, artisan makers, textile farmers and style philosophers.
This free online September event is hosted in collaboration with New York Textile Month and forms part of our ongoing Talking Textiles educational programme.
The winner of 2024 Dorothy Waxman International Textile Design Prize will also be announced in the conference!
The World Hope Forum was launched on October 24 during Dutch Design Week, during the depth of the pandemic caused by Covid-19, and founded by Lidewij Edelkoort and Philip Fimmano, in collaboration with Dezeen as a media partner. The objective of this platform is to federate, to bring together the major players who have developed new industrial, economic, and more virtuous processes, where the center is people. The World Hope Forum’s main goal is to create a holistic global platform for the exchange and expansion of knowledge, innovation
Talk & Presentation: YOROKE-ORI (Ondulé Weaving) by Yukiko Yokoyama
Talk
Loop of the Loom is featuring a talk and presentation by textile artist Yukiko Yokoyama, renowned for her YOROKE weaving (aka Onduree weaving technique). This in-person event is a rare opportunity to meet Yokoyama, visiting from Japan, and discover the beauty of this contemporary meticulous craft. During the presentation, participants will learn about her 50 years of experience in dyeing and weaving while demonstrating with a loom and viewing her work. Attendees will also hear stories from her creations and participate in a Q&A session. If it's not possible to attend her other workshops or are just starting to weave, don't miss this!"
Loop of the Loom is a wonderful retreat for those seeking relaxation through textile art. It allows participants to unleash their infinite creativity using looms and various textures. Since 2005, we have offered ""Zen weaving"" a free-spirited approach to weaving with SAORI's weaving philosophy that breaks away from traditional weaving concepts.
At their two weaving dojos, they sell Japanese natural dyes, organic yarns, and SAORI looms, carefully curated with sustainability and wellness in mind and suitable for environmentally conscious crafters.
Tickets costs $30.
Crochet & Tell
Workshop
It’s like “Show and Tell”, but crochet. You get it.
Participants are welcomed to bring a project they’re working on, a project they’d like to begin, or a project they’ve recently finished!
Either way, participants can bring a crochet hook and come hook in William’s new art studio and yarn factory in Brooklyn, NY.
Ticket includes one 4oz cake of yarn, a selection of Whirlwind Yarn will be available for their choosing.
Refreshments and yarn provided!
@william_storms @whirlwind_yarn
William Storms is a mathematically driven craftsman “fortunate enough” to have discovered the loom- whose work is an ongoing effort to produce three-dimensional work in a traditionally two-dimensional world.
Straddling the worlds of Art and Industry, Storms began his weaving career with a bespoke textile studio in Brooklyn, NY in 2011- where he was quickly introduced to the world of custom handweaving for the Interior Design Trade. This exposure to crafted, custom luxury became the foundation of his practice; working next as a Designer for several prominent Jacquard Mills and simultaneously establishing his signature as an Artist.
The continual focus on blending Craft with Custom Manufacturing is a staple in Storms’ body of work, as both an Artist and a Designer.
Tickets cost $30.
The Blending Project I
Open Studio
New York Textile Month is a time when textile makers create radical conversations and connect with their ingenious community. This coming 2024 New York Textile Month, Annie Coggan and Janis Stemmermann will be inviting people to Russell Janis Gallery for two days of community quilting on a series of digitally printed textile images. These images are generated by combining Coggan and Stemmermann’s immediate bodies of work. Images built by ceramics, chairs, block printing and smocking are all blended by the Midjourney AI platform, creating more than just patterns but a series of provocations. The large scale digital images will result in four life size quilts.
At the September 27th and 28th 2024 quilting sessions, Annie and Janis will discuss and demonstrate their use of AI, ponder their collaboration and simple quilting techniques; all to create a new brand of collaboration where haptic practices and tecnology unite for a new textile future.
Artists Russell Steinert and Janis Stemmermann met in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in 1990 and launched the Russell Janis website in 2012 as a platform to experiment with presenting visual, cultural and art-making ideas. In 2014, they moved into the current studio location. They facilitate and exhibit projects with invited artists across disciplines.
In 2020, during the pandemic, Russell and Janis established a presence at Fiddle Styx and studios for their art practices in the northwestern Connecticut in Sharon in a former childrens’ violin school.
600+ Wool Skirts: Collection Preview and Conversation
Talk
Join fashion archivist Sarah C. Byrd in conversation with Mae Colburn and her mother, Carol Colburn, about a collection of 600+ secondhand wool skirts assembled by Mae’s grandmother, Audrey Huset (1922-2022), between 1960 and 2000.
This spring, Mae, Carol and other family members worked together to catalog the entire collection, before moving it from Carol’s home in Duluth, Minnesota to Mae’s rag rug weaving studio in Brooklyn, New York. In the process, they created a striking photographic record of the wool skirts, now viewable on the collection website.
For this event, Mae and Carol will introduce the collection and trace its evolution to date, as well as discoveries made during their cataloging process. In conversation with Sarah, they seek to create a broader platform for discussion about home collections, inter-generational stewardship, and possible futures for this collection and others like it.
Sarah C. Byrd is a textile archivist with a special focus on American designers and the artifacts of daily living. She currently teaches courses related to the history, preservation, and material culture of fashion and textiles at FIT, NYU, Parsons, and the Textile Arts Center, and is co-founder of the Fashion Studies Alliance.
Mae Colburn is a scholar and weaver with a particular interest in textile archives, collections, and legacies. She works as archivist for tapestry artist Helena Hernmarck and collects her own weaving activities under the name Common Loom.
Carol Colburn is Professor Emerita in Theatre, Costume Design at the University of Northern Iowa. Her graduate studies included art history, museology, and textiles and clothing. She currently teaches sewing workshops at North House Folk School and John C. Campbell Folk School.
Contemporary @ Heirloom presents Cristina Wright
Talk & Exhibition
Join Heirloom for a talk and exhibition where Zach Zaman and team will host artist Cristina Wright as part of their Contemporary @ Heirloom series that spotlights local contemporary fiber artists, highlights their process, unique themes, and the ways in which traditional techniques are celebrated and pushed forward.
Cristina Wright (she/they) is an explorative artist and collector originally from South Carolina. Wright holds a BA from North Carolina State University for Art and Design. Wright’s initial textile and fiber studies have been integrated with photography and other pictorial finds. As a self taught photographer, Wright captures the colors of natural world and personal moments with family and strangers. Driven by dyeing, weaving and quilting, Wright builds from personal dreams and reflections from the past. Wright intersects narratives from American history and folklore through photography, textiles and found objects.
Kurume Kasuri: Weaving Tradition into the Future
Talk & Exhibition
This is a special one-day exhibition and presentation during Textile Month in NYC, where Sakata Orimono is proud to showcase the timeless art of Kurume Kasuri. This event will provide a rare opportunity to immerse in the rich history, vibrant present, and innovative future of this traditional Japanese textile.
The day will feature a keynote presentation by Mr. Kazuo Sakata, the visionary behind Sakata Orimono, who will take participants on a journey from the origins of Kurume Kasuri to its contemporary relevance. Mr. Sakata will share his insights on the intricate production process, the cultural significance of this craft, and the steps being taken to preserve and spread awareness of Kurume Kasuri both in Japan and internationally.
The event will also highlight the creative perspectives of three talented textile artists who have participated in the Sakata Orimono Craftsman Experience Program. These artists, all graduates of the Parsons School of Design Master’s Program, will share their experiences from their time in Kurume, Fukuoka Prefecture, where they immersed themselves in the art of Kasuri weaving and the local lifestyle.
They will discuss how their time in Kurume has profoundly influenced their artistic visions, highlighting the unique characteristics that make Kurume Kasuri so distinctive. This program is not only for artists with deep knowledge of Kurume Kasuri or weaving; it is also accessible to anyone, regardless of prior experience. Join them for this exhibition and presentation to hear about their experiences and learn more about the Sakata Orimono Craftsman Experience Program.
Additionally, attendees will have the chance to view an exclusive exhibition of artworks created by previous residency participants, inspired by their exploration of Kurume Kasuri.
This exhibition will also offer a glimpse into the future of Kurume Kasuri, showcasing the work of young Japanese artists who are reinterpreting this traditional textile for modern artistic expressions.
Just as the double ikat of Kurume Kasuri intertwines vertical and horizontal threads, this event aims to honor tradition while fostering innovation, weaving together the past, present, and future of this extraordinary textile. Sakata Orimono invites you to be part of this enriching experience.
sakataorimono.com/en/index.html
SAKATA ORIMONO INC, founded in March 1948, is a distinguished name in the world of traditional Japanese textiles, located in the heart of Fukuoka, Japan. The company specializes in the intricate art of Kurume-Kasuri, a textile technique unique to the Kurume region. This method involves skillfully weaving vertical and horizontal threads to create complex patterns that are both visually striking and exceptionally comfortable, improving with age.
SAKATA ORIMONO INC continues to be a beacon of cultural heritage and innovation, fabricating exquisite Kurume-Kasuri that is cherished worldwide.
Weaving, Stitching and Improvisation
Exhibition Opening
AbidWe_komorebi brought together a Lithuanian weaver Virginija Stigaite and Japanese stitching masters a year ago. The results of these collaborations are unique linen artworks on display - wall hangings and wearable art. Hiroko Takagi, Reiko Kobata and Keiko Futatsuya applied sashiko and kogin stitches to hand-woven linen. This allowed for less precise stitches "to dance" with nuanced hand-woven surfaces. Each piece of handwoven and hand stitched linen tells a story of cultural exchange, personal and universal: the Hill of Crosses in Vilnius, forest bathing, silence of birds in Tokyo, bark of pine trees in Takayama mountains, rivers of Nara, blue notes and jazz improvisations...
When the textiles arrived from Japan to the US, we commissioned Egle Špokaitė to respond to the artworks with choreography and her students performed for a short art film. The dancers wore linen tunics and, inspired by the Japanese-Lithuanian textiles, interpreted the processes of designing, weaving and stitching. The film is part of the installation.
AbidWe_komorebi collection captures the poetry of creation in an immersive and tactile way, as well as deepens respect for the artistry and multidimensionality of handmade items. The project was produced and curated by Sana (Svetlana) Gous, with support from Lili Almog at L'SPACE Gallery. We will be honored by dance, music, poetic or painting responses inspired by our collection of textile artworks and will include them into our future presentations. Please send your submissions to AbidWe_komorebi.
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 26th, 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Closing Performance: Saturday, September 28th, 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
This event also has an exhibition page, check here: Exhibition: September 24th - October 1st
homofaber.com/en/discover/virginija-stigaite-weaving-lithuania
@AbidWe_komorebi @nytys_textile @sashiko.reisaian @sashikostory
Hiroko Takagi is from Tokyo. She is a legendary kogin artist, book author, custom style pattern creator, instagrammer and revered teacher whose work has been displayed at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum. She recently completed "Fifty-Three Stations of Tokaido", her monumental work of thirty years - a set of 55 colorful pieces executed in kogin technique.
Keiko Futatsuya is a master stitcher, sashiko yarn dyer and designer residing in Takayama, Japan. For AbidWe_komorebi, Keiko dyed cotton thread in 5 shades of indigo. In her work, with the roughly hewn linen cloth, she followed the wisdom of Zen saying "Clouds move. Water flows."
Reiko Kobata is covering whole kimonos with sashiko stitching in her studio in Osaka, Japan. In her wall tapestry, she reinterpreted an archeological map of Nara from the 700's. The titles of her pieces are evocative and full of hope: Memories of the Ancient Capital, Tradition and Reconstruction.
Eglè Spokaitè is a dancer and choreographer, an actress, ballet educator, fashion model, and public speaker. She founded Ballet Institute of San Diego when she moved to the US after a stellar career as Prima Ballerina at the Lithuanian National Theater.
AbidWe is a creative collaboration of Virginija Stigaite (in Vilnius, Lithuania) and Sąna/ Svetlana Gous (in Palo Alto, CA). AbidWe is championing artistic initiatives with Lithuanian handwoven linen textiles, enriching them with global influences and advocating the importance of preserving, showcasing and elevating traditional crafts through original designs. Together, Sąna and Virginija are creating linen-and-wire sculptural hangings, reinterpreting weaving traditions into contemporary art practice. Two of their artworks are for sale during the exhibit, both inspired by the KOMOREBI concept.
Transactive Memories
Workshop
The Organic Internet is part digital and part human. Participants will delve into what this means in practice during this 1.5 hour embroidery workshop.
Led by artistic researcher Pamela Nelson, with a contribution from Dutch artist Anna Andrejew, participants will materialise this system- both by looking at what is readily available information about ourselves online, and by entrusting another participant with a memory, intended only for them. A piece of information stored in another participant, encoded and visualised will become an embroidered broach over the course of the workshop.
Materials required: a phone/laptop with access to internet, scissors, a needle, threads, felt backing, glue and pins. Attendees must have these with them for the workshop.
Pamela Nelson is an artistic design researcher from Ireland, currently based in Amsterdam. For the last four years she has been looking into how slowness and feminist values can be inserted into the digital design process using embroidery and sewing circles as a tool.
Asiatica Indigo Pop-Up
Exhibition
A 4-day POP-UP exhibition and sale of our celebrated one-of-a-kind clothing made of vintage Japanese textiles, contemporary Japanese fabrics from NUNO and other distinctive textiles.
Asiatica plans a unique and stylish installation including accessories, vintage indigo kimono and other special items.
Opening Reception
Thursday 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Exhibition
Thursday - Sunday 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
photo Stuart Heidmann
photo Andrew Crossland
They are designers, makers and retailers of clothing and accessories made of fine, rare and original Japanese fabrics.
Their retail store and workshop have been in Kansas City for more than 45 years. They also deal in vintage kimono some of which are represented in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts and the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Soft Connection Lab
Talk
Soft Connection Lab is a four-year research project embedded in the University of KASK in Ghent, Belgium. Within the Lab they explore the possibilities to restore the emotional connection with each other and our material surroundings. In a world increasingly dominated by digitalization – which disconnects designing from making - they believe in the value of hands-on experiences, fostering deeper connections with the material, the object, and the people they are interacting with.
During the talk, they are happy to introduce their newly developed methodology that aims to stimulate a conjunctive design attitude. They will share their experiences and interesting footage on the ongoing research. Inspired by forgotten artisanal textile techniques and the social cohesiveness of maypole dancers, the team has researched transversal creative making methods which add an intangible emotional value to the created objects. Besides scaling up and slowing down to enhance insight, they’ve developed a set of four Soft Tools. These four Soft Tools function as their new design vocabulary and contain various obsolete braiding techniques. With these four tools SCL aspires to restore the emotional bonds between makers, consumers, and objects.
Parallel to the talk, they’ll launch our design challenge Healing through braiding. They invite enthusiast makers to use our Soft Tools to heal an object, transforming it and imbuing it with new significance. By exploring repair and restoration, emotional links can be forged between individuals, their material world and society.
Soft Connection Lab is a research project embedded within KASK – School of Arts HoGent in Ghent, Belgium. A collective of five researchers and designers is exploring whether ingenious textile techniques can be transformed into co-creative methodologies and healing artifacts.
In our Western industrialized society, the processes of designing and making are often disconnected. Soft Connection Lab aims to develop methods to reunite these processes through a conjunctive design methodology. Drawing inspiration from ingenious braiding techniques and the social connections exemplified by maypole dancers, the team investigates how this collective energy can enhance the emotional relationship between makers, consumers, and objects. They aspire to determine if this process can serve as a catalyst for sustainability.
Li Live in New York
Presentation
The founder of NYTM is back in NY for the first time in 5 years. We Welcome Li to New York to give her legendary presentations on her vision of the future.
Thursday, September 26th Programme:
9:00am Doors open
9:30am ANATOMY OF FLUIDITY: S/S 2026 Fashion & Textiles, presented live by Li Edelkoort
10:30am ANALOGY OF FLOWERS: S/S 2026 Colour Forecast, presented live by Li Edelkoort
11:00am Break
11:30am INTERIOR CHILD: 2026 Home, Interiors, Colours & Materials, presented by Li Edelkoort
12:30am Extended Q&A
12:45am Approximate end
This event is organized in collaboration with the MFA Textiles at Parsons the New School.
@edelkoortnyc @lidewijedelkoort
Li Edelkoort is a trend forecaster, publisher, humanitarian, design educator and exhibition curator. From 2015-2020 she was the Dean of Hybrid Design Studies at Parsons in New York where she founded a Textile Masters and the New York Textile Month festival. Her thought-provoking writings and podcasts have become increasingly popular at a time when she is regarded as an activist and champion for change. In 2020, she founded the World Hope Forum as a platform to inspire the creative community to rebuild a better society. She is also on the Creative Council for all of Gap Inc.’s fashion brands, advising the group on creative innovation and sustainable practice. In 2022, Edelkoort collaborated with Polimoda in Florence to establish an innovative new textile masters called From Farm to Fabric to Fashion.
This event is paid
TOAST Circle Pop Up | Embroidery Play Workshop With Tatter Textile Library
Workshop
For centuries, embroidery has been practised in many forms as a means of decoration and artistic expression. A single strand of thread can be stitched, twisted, knotted or coiled, to create an infinite array of shapes, textures and designs. With intention, even the most basic of marks, stitched by the hands of the novice, can achieve incredibly beautiful results, transforming neutral fabrics into works of art and giving a new lease of life to worn garments.
In this workshop, you will be introduced to hand embroidery, with basic stitches taught and practised, and design ideas discussed.
Established in 1997 in Wales, TOAST began with nightwear and loungewear, inspired by nature and the surrounding landscape. The collections were designed with a relaxed sense of ease and made with quality materials in long lasting silhouettes.
Today, our approach remains true to our beginnings – creating simple, modern and functional pieces intended to last for years to come.
Our clothing, homeware and accessories are produced in collaboration with artisans, weavers, and mills from across the globe. We work together to support local communities, preserving craftsmanship and traditional techniques.
Tickets cost $55. All materials will be provided.
Virtual Open Studio: Make Waves
Open Studio
Textile department of Pallas University of Applied Sciences encourages students to experiment with warp and weft manipulation tools for handlooms. The tools are mostly invented and built by professor of Pallas UAS Kadi Pajupuu. The course supervisor is Mari-Triin Kirs who participated in Dorothy Waxman contest some years ago and is now teaching weaving at our university. During their event students and teachers demonstrate with the help of videos the use of those tools on handlooms, analyze the samples and show photos of garments made with the help of warp and weft manipulation tools. The tools (RailReed, Stepping Reed, rigid heddle modules, floating warp devices etc) are made in the spirit of DIY.
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Pallas University of Applied Sciences is the only higher education institution of applied arts in Estonia. Pallas provides studies in three focus areas (design, conservation/restoration and the arts), which are organized into seven curricula: photography, painting and restoration, media and advertisement design, furniture design and restoration, leather design and restoration, sculpture and textile. The aim of the textile department is to develop the field of textile art and design in Estonia. The curriculum is broad and includes courses in fashion. The focus of the curriculum is both on individual skills as well as cross-disciplinary collaboration.
Open Studio: Helena Hernmarck
Open Studio
Witness Hernmarck’s monumental wall of brilliant, lustrous rya wool, and learn about the material choices, working methods, and creative questions that have informed her career and the ‘spectacular illusion’ for which she is known. Portions of Helena’s archive will be on view to illustrate her legacy of commissioned tapestries, and touch samples will be available to offer insight into her technique.
A pioneer of photorealistic tapestry in the 1960s, and the first to apply camera optics to handweaving in the 1970s, Hernmarck is credited with revolutionizing tapestry’s aesthetics and relationship to modern architecture. Her tapestries enhance buildings around the world and are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and other major institutions.
Hernmarck’s studio is located in Ridgefield, Connecticut. Please consider transportation options before registering for this event. The studio is a 15-minute drive from Purdy’s, Croton Falls and Brewster train stations on MetroNorth’s Harlem Line. Taxis are available from the Brewster train station. Address will be emailed to registered attendees one week prior to the event.
Helena Hernmarck is a Swedish tapestry artist who lives and works in the United States. She is best known for her monumental tapestries designed for architectural settings. Her mentors were three Swedish pioneers of the modern movement in textiles: Alice Lund, Edna Martin, and Astrid Sampe. After graduating from art school in Stockholm in 1963, she moved her studio to Canada and later to England before settling in the United States in the mid-1970s. Hernmarck now maintains an active studio in Ridgefield, CT.
Pratt Dye Garden Open House: A Celebration of Natural Color
Open Studio
Pratt Dye Garden invites participants to an evening of exploration and celebration of natural color. Tour the courtyard, join in the Crew led natural dye demonstrations using their 2024 yield, and learn more about the work of Thompson Street Studios. Enjoy refreshments from their all-natural mixology station, crafted in collaboration with their friends at Oko Farms.
The Textile Dye Garden is an ongoing project at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY serving as a resource for sustainability education and a hub for collaboration and experimentation within the Pratt and surrounding communities.
The garden offers workshops to Pratt Institute and the surrounding community educating on the sustainable and integrative process of natural dyes.
Crossroads: Textile Intersections
Talk & Exhibition
Crossroads: Textile Intersections presents intricate hands-on textile work that examines age-old techniques reinterpreted in a modern format by three highly individual artists who manipulate fiber. The exhibition looks at their current visions of both art for the wall and for the body.
Ana Lisa Hedstrom (San Francisco) creates abstract and geometric patterns developed from the concepts of Japanese Shibori. Her signature art textiles are included in the collections of the Cooper Hewitt, The DeYoung Museum, The Museum of Craft and Design among others.
Jorie Johnson (Kyoto) designs and produces unique handmade woolen felt creations using her own innovative expressions of the 8,000-year-old central-Asian technique of feltmaking. She exhibits her contemporary feltworks in galleries, shops, and museums around the world.
Mary Jaeger (New York City) designs a collection of innovative hand-dyed stitch resist textiles conscious of sustainability, eco-friendly techniques and couture sewing. Her one-of-a-kind collections are available at her Brooklyn atelier, juried trade shows, galleries and fine shops worldwide.
The Artist Talks will start at 3 PM!
This event also has an exhibition page, check here: Exhibition: September 22nd - October10th
photo by Ana-Lisa Hedstrom
photo by Jorie Johnson
photo by May Jaeger
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Three internationally recognized textile artists, Ana Lisa Hedstrom (San Francisco), Jorie Johnson (Kyoto), Mary Jaeger (New York City), are exhibiting their work at Mary Jaeger’s Brooklyn atelier to celebrate NYTM 2024. They initially met at the first International Shibori Network Symposium in 1993 in Arimatsu, Japan and continue to collaborate by exhibiting their work here and abroad.
WEAVING LULLABIES
Talk, Exhibition & Workshop
Weaving Lullabies is a two-hour online community weaving, sharing, and listening space to be held during the Autumn Solstice, Sept 21st, at 530p EST/ 230p PST/ 530a PHT
This solstice, ART WEAVE offers community prayers that meditate on what it means to nurture the mother, our creative selves, with the guidance of technologies that keep us abundant and nurtured in a time of destruction and rebirth.
“Weaving Lullabies” is an ancestral remembering, an in-the-moment guide and experimental conversation that uses the mediums of weaving, rhythm and sound lullabies.
Our prayer asks “What is the lullaby for the Mother?” “What is the lullaby for weaving new pathways?
In this prayer ART WEAVE honors the medicine of Weaving and the bearers that share this knowledge. According to the Yakan weavers of Basilan in the Philippines, Yakan being known as "People of the Earth" and "Daughters of the Rainbow", Weaving to them is akin to "Birthing". As birth - genes are passed through ancestry and generations, the knowledge, technicalities and skills of weaving are likewise passed on through generations. The backstrap loom connected directly to the body, the yarns representing the umbilical cord, and each weaver's inhale and exhale expands and births into woven threads.
In this prayer ART WEAVE honors the medicine of Sound. Through the sacredness of listening, they call on sound frequencies that continue birthing legacy stories of celebration that are remembered in our creative spirit, our ancestral bodies and Mother Earth. They use sound to help circulate prayer, to amplify our collective dialogue and to generate new portals of existence.
Their intention of opening up this space is to grow threads of what it means to nurture the Creator within us. They use the technologies of breathing, journaling, collective weaving and song to encourage collective and ancestral dialogue. What does it feel like to cradle our imaginative selves? To weave frequencies that bring new dreaming pathways a little bit closer? In this process, we remember the Creator Mother Earth and offer lullabies to her Creation of newness alongside us. This sharing is open to beginning weavers. Please join them if you feel called!
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ART WEAVE was conceived and created in late 2021, during the midst of the pandemic where it was crucial to find ways for Artists and Weavers to survive ~ the ART WEAVE project started with a collaborative project between Baguio’s Visual Artists and Textile Weavers – where Textile Weavers translated works of Visual Artists into Handwoven Textile pieces.
After exhibiting in June-July of 2022, ART WEAVE received several invitations and inquiries to exhibit some more and to expand the offerings.
Seeing the needs and reactions from the exhibits, there is a need for continuous dialogue between the weavers and artists.
Larsen Textile Award
Honoring Visionary Lidewij Edelkoort | Celebrating New York Textile Month
Saturday, September 21
2:00 - 5:00pm
Talk and Book Signing
PRESENTATIONS
RE-RUG: 2025 Rugs & Interiors
Guests and design enthusiasts are invited to hear about the RE-RUG revolution taking interiors by storm, livening up even tiny spaces with the most daring of artistic expressions. This visually inspiring presentation bears witness to the whirlwind of textiles, yarns and colours emerging for flooring - a school of art for art’s sake. The renowned design forecaster Li Edelkoort has researched numerous ideas to curate a selection of stunning examples for the future. In contrast to our troubled era, rugs are back in art and design as an aesthetic antidote. If the rug can be considered a key reflection of culture, it is conveying with a sense of urgency the need to come together and rejoice in what is human and convivial, that which brings us together and ignites empathy. The rug as manifest!
PROUD SOUTH: Fashion, Art & Photography from the Global South
A mesmerizing visual experience that celebrates the creative forces from the southern parts of the planet. Through the colorful and expressive lens of contemporary fashion, photography, styling and art, Li Edelkoort will present emerging and established talents from wide and far, illustrating that the axis of global creativity has indeed dramatically shifted. Edelkoort has investigated multiple themes that connect sensational talents that hail from Latin America, Africa, South Asia and South East Asia. Not defined by maps, hemispheres or the rigid fashion system of the north, PROUD SOUTH represents an emancipated international movement. Style, materials, motifs and colours are therefore innovated in myriad ways. Yet the power of the south also leads by example, teaching the important lessons of de-colonialization, inclusivity, ecology, spiritual harmony and grace.
Sunday, September 22
3:00 - 5:00pm
Inaugural Larsen Textile Award,Talk and Book Signing
PRESENTATION
Talking Textiles: Creativity & Awareness
Li Edelkoort
PROUD SOUTH
RE-RUG
PROUD SOUTH
@edelkoortnyc @lidewijedelkoort
Lidewij Edelkoort is a trend forecaster, publisher, humanitarian, design educator and exhibition curator. From 2015-2020 she was the Dean of Hybrid Design Studies at Parsons in New York where she founded a Textile Masters and the New York Textile Month festival. Her thought-provoking writings and podcasts have become increasingly popular at a time when she is regarded as an activist and champion for change. In 2020, she founded the World Hope Forum as a platform to inspire the creative community to rebuild a better society. She is also on the Creative Council for all of Gap Inc.’s fashion brands, advising the group on creative innovation and sustainable practice. In 2022, Edelkoort collaborated with Polimoda in Florence to establish an innovative new textile masters called Farm to Fabric to Fashion. Her latest publication, PROUD SOUTH, celebrates the creative forces from the southern parts of the planet.
Tickets from $35
Swatch book of Stories
Workshop
In these socially, politically, and economically challenging times, let us come together as a community and weave our small stories of hope and random acts of kindness from our everyday lives into digital fabrics and build a virtual ‘Swatch book of Stories’ that we can share with each other.
For centuries, the roots of weaving, computation, and text have been intertwined with each other through their algorithmic patterns and coded natures. From these intertwined roots grows this idea of ‘Swatch book of Stories’.
Participants come together and translate their stories into digitally woven swatches using an experimental and generative digital loom. Through this process of weaving our stories, we learn about the intricacies within the relationships of computation, weaving, and text, as well as revisit some historic examples where these intersections brought forth hope and transformative change during their times. By the end, these digital swatches come together to build a virtual swatch book fostering a community where everyone can share their stories and swatches with each other.
Nishra Ranpura is an interdisciplinary designer, researcher, and creative technologist. Her work explores the interactions between the physical and the digital through experimental and speculative narratives. She researches, practices, and teaches across the disciplines of new media, digital fabrication, creative technology, and design research. Essentially, she makes things and breaks things. Sometimes, she writes, and oftentimes, she wonders.
Studio Opening: William Storms
Open Studio
Participants are invited to join William in his new studio space in Brooklyn, NY.
Everybody is welcome to tour the new studio, view available work, learn about upcoming workshops, and more.
From samples of his larger-than-life sculptures to the vintage yarn machines, numerous looms, or newly spun selection of Whirlwind Yarn — there is a lot to see! Come be a part of the opening celebration.
Interested in learning more? Register for an Artist Talk using the links below to learn more about the studio equipment and a preview of William’s process.
For Elevator access, please use the entrance at 67 35th street.
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William Storms is a mathematically driven craftsman “fortunate enough” to have discovered the loom- whose work is an ongoing effort to produce three-dimensional work in a traditionally two-dimensional world.
Straddling the worlds of Art and Industry, Storms began his weaving career with a bespoke textile studio in Brooklyn, NY in 2011- where he was quickly introduced to the world of custom handweaving for the Interior Design Trade. This exposure to crafted, custom luxury became the foundation of his practice; working next as a Designer for several prominent Jacquard Mills and simultaneously establishing his signature as an Artist.
The continual focus on blending Craft with Custom Manufacturing is a staple in Storms’ body of work, as both an Artist and a Designer.
Wearing The Unstitched In India
Workshop
Traditional Indian wear uses the beautiful length of unstitched textile to drape, twist and fold around the body. Both men and women wear them in many different and similar ways to cover their whole body (like saree), lower body (like dhotis), upper body (like dupattas or chuniris) or simply as accents around the neck (like gamcha) and head (like turbans). These lengths of cloth vary from 108 inches to 40 inches.
In this in-person workshop, participants will learn to wear a saree (usually worn by women) in two or three ways and also learn to wear a dhoti (usually worn my men). For this workshop in Aksara studio, they will have sample saree and dhotis you can learn to wear. Participants are welcome to bring their own too. They will have educators who will help attendees step by step. They will offer light refreshments that will go with the theme of the workshop.
Aksara would really appreciate if participants can register few days ahead so it will help them to prepare.
Aksara’s mission is to bring to the forefront traditional and contemporary ideas and thoughts about Indian culture in creative and meaningful ways. Aksara’s carefully curated education programs in the form of events and workshops are designed to create deep cultural learning. Aksara organizes unique workshops and edutainment events in museums, libraries, schools, and other community spaces. These education programs vary from being participatory to performative and exhibitory to experiential. They have won Education Awards and Grants for our programs that have creatively engaged various communities in New York City.
Tickets cost $15.
We require a minimum of 3 registrants to get the workshop going. If we cancel it you will be assured a full refund. We would really appreciate if you can register 24hours in advance.
Metamorphosis: From Textile to Textile
Workshop
Rachel Dana and Luisa Mantelli are hosting a workshop to infuse meaning into forgotten garments by creating new textiles.
The textile industry is a major contributor to the global waste problem. Discarded clothing still holds potential as a valuable material and can be repurposed by individuals to create something new.
By using fabric that is torn, stained, or that would otherwise be thrown away, such as clothing that is not in good condition to donate or mend, the participants will be guided on how to turn "trash" into yarn. Participants will be creating small tapestry pieces with these yarns, which can be the jumping-off point for more extravagant ideas and projects or simply sewn into little pouches.
Each participant should bring clothing or similar items that they are willing to cut up. Some examples of fabric to bring would be children's clothing which does not fit anymore but is too stained or has large holes in it. Or perhaps old fabric that isn't being used but has meaning, or scrap/sample fabric from other projects, etc.
They will supply a 10” tapestry loom for participants to work on, which they can take home to continue creating. Additional materials and tools will also be available.
Rachel Dana and Luisa Mantelli are two MFA textile students at Parsons School of Design who create their own materials from raw wool, natural dyes, upcycled fabric, and deadstock yarn.
Rachel has spent the last 20 years working with plant material in a wide range of techniques, including botanical illustration, farming, and 10 years as a pastry chef. For the past 5 years she has focused on textiles, foraging for color, spinning, weaving, knitting, and creating large sculptural pieces.
Luisa creates textile pieces through spinning, weaving, knitting, and crocheting, working with themes related to land, space, and nature. She has a background in architecture and design, which is the base for her understanding of the environment that surrounds people.
Tickets cost $20.