NYTM 2026 CALENDAR
work by Elodie Blanchard
Interior textiles Today: A New York Perspective
Online/ Talk / Textile Technique
INTERIOR TEXTILES TODAY: A NEW YORK PERSPECTIVE brings together designers, educators, and industry voices to ask a simple but pointed question: what does it actually take to build and sustain an interior textile practice in this city right now?
Presented by New York Textile Month, FIT's Surface Design program, and Textile Eye, the evening will center on inspiring presentations and open discussion about where New York's interior design landscape stands today.
Whether you're a working designer, a student, or simply curious about the forces shaping the rooms we live in, join us for an evening built around one central question: what does it mean, and what does it take, to make interior textiles in New York today?
Program
6:00 PM: Doors open
6:30 PM: Event start time
6:30 PM - 6:40 PM: Welcome Susanne Goetz Chair | Textile/Surface Design and Ragna Froda Director New York Textile Month
6:40 PM - 6:55 PM: Presentation Saana Baker (FIT alumna), Textile Eye
6:55PM - 7:05 PM: Presentation Lori Weitzner
7:05 PM - 7:15 PM: Presentation William Storms(TSD alumnus)
7:15 PM - 8:00 PM: Panel discussion, moderated by Saana Baker
8:00 PM: Event wrap up
Saana Barker - Textile Eye
Saana Baker is a textile designer, consultant, and Editor-in-Chief of The Textile Eye, an independent quarterly report devoted to high-end textiles and surface design. She studied textile design at FIT before holding design leadership roles at Schumacher and Barbara Barry and consulting on collections for Jiun Ho, Kravet, Clarence House, Crypton, and McGuire Furniture. She founded The Textile Eye to provide in-depth international fair coverage, trend analysis, and industry interviews. Baker is also a frequent speaker, a Trend Spotter for Home Accents Today, and has appeared in Business of Home, Arch Digest Pro, Aspire Design and Home, and HUE.
William Storms
William Storms (b.1991) is a Brooklyn-based artist and textile designer exploring handweaving and material development. A graduate of FIT, he studied at ENSCI–Les Ateliers in Paris before developing Jacquard fabrics as a designer at US Textile Mills, like Sunbrella and Crypton. Through his namesake studio, he creates custom fabrics, sculptural woven works, and site specific installations in collaboration with the A&D community.
Lori Weitzner
Lori Weitzner, Principal Designer of Weitzner limited is internationally known for her contributions to the world of textiles, wallcoverings, rugs, passementerie, stone and tile, bedding, and other products for interiors and gifting. Her work is in the permanent collections of such museums as the Cooper- Hewitt in New York and The Victoria Albert in London as well as a special exhibition about color during the Venice Biennale 2022. She is the recipient of more than thirty five prestigious design awards and her work is featured regularly in such media as Elle Décor, Architectural Digest, and The New York Times. She has authored her first book, Ode to Color: The Ten Essential Palettes for Living and Design, published by HarperCollins, and lectures around the world on the effects of color on our well being. Including an extensive partnership with Google XI.
Brian Delp
Brian Delp is a consumer goods and retail strategist with executive leadership experience across global, product-driven organizations, including President at Himatsingka America and CEO at New Sega Home. He has operated across the full consumer ecosystem, holding leadership roles spanning manufacturers, importers, brand portfolios, and retail-facing organizations. In parallel, he teaches leadership, marketing, product strategy, and design research at the Fashion Institute of Technology and Parsons School of Design. He serves as Vice President of the Board of the Home Fashion Products Association and President of the HFPA Foundation, and contributes as a writer, speaker, and advisor across the retail and consumer landscape. He holds a B.A. in Business Administration from Elon University and an MBA from the Cornell SC Johnson Graduate School of Management.
Material Transformations
In person/ Open Studio / Multiple Techniques
Material Transformations
A creative space dedicated to craftsmanship, community, and hands-on making, this partnership brings together artistic exploration and traditional making techniques. Together, the two studios create an environment that encourages creativity, experimentation, and meaningful connections through the handmade process.
No registration required!
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Surface to Form Workshop - textilemonth.nyc/calendar-2026/surface-to-form
Tamar Mogendorff
Recognized for her original soft objects, Tamar Mogendorff is an artist and designer based in Brooklyn, New York. Since founding her studio in 2005, she has created one-of-a-kind textile sculptures, home objects, ceramics, and porcelain works. Her work has been exhibited internationally, and she has collaborated with numerous brands, galleries, and retailers.
Jann Cheifitz
Jann Cheifitz grew up in South Africa, and worked in an anti-apartheid art collective.
She moved to New York in 1994, where she built "Lucky Fish," a business producing "hand-printed in Brooklyn" textiles and clothing, inspired by the spirit of her artwork. For production she worked in collaboration with small print shops local to Brooklyn, producing artisanal products in small batches.
Her new body of artwork is textile based. The works are embroidered, sewn, patched, quilted, painted, screen-printed or made in clay creating a kaleidoscope of images – life and death cycles, fertility, fecundity, fallow times, soil, loam and compost – degeneration producing regeneration, creation and procreation, the body held with the earth's spirit, with the garden as inspiration.
Jann has participated in numerous group exhibitions, and has held a number of solo shows both locally and Internationally.
From Soil to Spool: A Tour of FIT's Rooftop Natural Dye Garden and Weaving and Knitting Labs
Visit FIT's 9th-floor rooftop Natural Dye Garden, home to more than 25 dye plant species, then tour the weaving and knitting labs and view Farm to Fabric, the curated work of TDM senior capstone students. September 17, 5:30–6:30pm at FIT, Chelsea.
Haute Texture — Weaving Light in the Studio
Online/ Open Studio / Weaving
Adélaïde Germain opens the doors of her Paris studio for an online visit into architectural weaving. On a hand loom, she works in the spirit of French haute couture, treating swatches of reclaimed matter the way a couturier treats precious fabric. Her pieces are true garments for architecture, gowns that dress walls and let light move through them.
Everything begins with reuse. Eyewear acetate, brass, glass and materials salvaged from events, offcuts and manufacturers become the raw matter of her work, chosen for the way they hold and release light. From these fragments she composes surfaces of high texture, panels, screens and light filters conceived not as decoration but as building material, dividing space and shaping its light and acoustics. Her signature gesture, which she calls sertissage, is born from the meeting of weaving and architecture.
Filmed in her studio at the Manufacture de Belleville and presented in French with English subtitles, the session moves from the raw material to the gesture, then to a reading of her named pieces, including work shown at the Petit Palais in Paris. A live question-and-answer moment closes the event. Germain develops her practice with RÉEMPART, a non-profit turning reclaimed materials into cultural narratives.
Adélaïde Germain is a Paris-based weaver working at the intersection of textile and architecture. On a hand loom, she creates architectural weavings, panels, screens and light filters conceived as building material rather than decoration, through a gesture she calls sertissage, born from the meeting of weaving and architecture. Reuse is her first creative constraint: eyewear acetate, brass, glass and salvaged materials become surfaces that hold and shape light. Her work has been shown at the Petit Palais in Paris. She develops her practice with RÉEMPART, a non-profit turning reclaimed materials into cultural narratives, which supports her research and productions.
Growing, Gathering, and Generating: Pathways and Possibilities for Native North American Fiber Plants
Online/ Talk / Processing & Spinning
Mitch Frank will present alongside two University of Wisconsin–Madison undergraduate researchers on the varied potential of North American fiber plants. The talk will explore growing, gathering, and processing plants for textile fiber, as well as opportunities to make use of other plant materials and processing byproducts.
Frank will discuss his ongoing research into native North American plants that produce bast fiber with qualities similar to flax and hemp, including approaches to cultivation, responsible gathering, and processing fiber for yarn and textiles. Undergraduate researchers will present two related material studies that look beyond the production of conventional fiber. One project explores the use of woody hurds and shive left after fiber processing to create biocomposite materials. The other investigates native fiber plants as alternative cellulose feedstocks for regenerated fibers.
Together, these projects consider how fiber plants might provide multiple useful material streams and how greater use of perennial and naturally occurring species could expand the range of plants considered for textile and material production.
Blue Star Line is a project by educator and designer Mitch Frank. “Line” is a trade term for the long fibers that can be harvested from the stems of some plants. Line fiber is used to make strong yarn for weaving and knitting.
Woven Together Fashion Show
In person / Open Studio / Weaving
Intertwine Arts wants to celebrate the creativity, beauty, adaptability, and fun of disability-based clothing design with a fashion show at the Positive Exposure Gallery. Disabled models are paired with disabled and non-disabled designers to create a piece unique to them, which will then stroll down the runway! The runway show will be the closing finale of Intertwine Arts’ annual Woven Together exhibition, which celebrates the artistry of disabled individuals with a display of fiber artworks created over the year in weekly weaving workshops.
No registration required!
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Woven Together Exhibition - textilemonth.nyc/calendar-2026/woven-together-exhibition
The artists represented are artists with disabilities from Intertwine Arts’ programs across four New York City boroughs of Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and the Bronx. The disabilities experienced range from cognitive disabilities, to physical disabilities, to neurodivergence, to chronic illness, and more. All are burgeoning weavers and fiber artists, primarily exploring the woven medium. Their talents also extend into embroidery, crochet, sewing, and beyond.