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Textile as Language
Online / Talk / Weaving
Maaike Gottschal will give an Artist Talk about her work, her textile studio Textielfabrique, her research on textile techniques and cultures worldwide and her life as textile artist and pioneer.
Maaike Gottschal is a multidisciplinary (textile) artist from the Netherlands.
Through her work, Maaike aims to advocate for beauty and poetry in her textiles; beauty has a transformative power of imagination that makes our relationship with textiles personal, powerful and meaningful'
Here appreciation for textiles was passed down through her family. She grew up in a textile family that learned her weaving, spinning, bobbin lace making, embroidery, sewing, and explore many other techniques from an early age. Maaike studied design, art history, jewellery, and visual arts and is working across disciplines and their intersections.
Over the past fifteen years, she studied a wide range of textile techniques with seven teachers around the world, as part of a self-designed program called Textile as Language. Since 2020, she has been creating textiles using locally grown flax. Textile techniques and textile cultures are central to her work and knowledge. Anyone can spin, weave, and create beautiful, meaningful cloth. Her textiles are not technically perfect—rather, they are woven to highlight the human aspect of nowadays art.
Maaike teaches textile masterclasses since 2013 at her company Textielfabrique.
Japanese Sõkin (cleaning towel) Quilting
Online / Workshop / Quilting
Since 2016 the Dutch artist Maaike Gottschal is making handwoven and hand quilted cleaning towels. She will teach this simple, meaningful, mindful technique and tell about the historical references in many cultures and her experiences with using these textiles in daily life. The artist has made a lot of textiles for her own use, friends, and family since 2016. Years of experience have taught here that living and working with it means loving and caring for it. Users develop a relationship with the textile. Living and working with these textiles give beautiful experiences and create great textile art.
Maaike Gottschal is a multidisciplinary (textile) artist from the Netherlands.
Through her work, Maaike aims to advocate for beauty and poetry in her textiles; beauty has a transformative power of imagination that makes our relationship with textiles personal, powerful and meaningful'
Here appreciation for textiles was passed down through her family. She grew up in a textile family that learned her weaving, spinning, bobbin lace making, embroidery, sewing, and explore many other techniques from an early age. Maaike studied design, art history, jewellery, and visual arts and is working across disciplines and their intersections.
Over the past fifteen years, she studied a wide range of textile techniques with seven teachers around the world, as part of a self-designed program called Textile as Language. Since 2020, she has been creating textiles using locally grown flax. Textile techniques and textile cultures are central to her work and knowledge. Anyone can spin, weave, and create beautiful, meaningful cloth. Her textiles are not technically perfect—rather, they are woven to highlight the human aspect of nowadays art.
Maaike teaches textile masterclasses since 2013 at her company Textielfabrique.
Open Studio ELODIE BLANCHARD
In person / Open Studio / Sewing
Elodie Blanchard’s studio will be open from 12 to 6 PM for visitors to stop by, explore the space, and view recent works in progress. This event offers a unique opportunity to get a glimpse into her creative process.
Elodie Blanchard is a French-American artist and designer. She transforms discarded textiles—used clothing and remnants—into sculptures, wall hangings, and installations. Her process blends layering, stitching, and embroidery to create a playful yet strange world that invites joy and curiosity while reflecting on imperfection and memory. Trained in sculpture and fashion at the Beaux-Arts in Paris and at CalArts in Los Angeles, she founded her Brooklyn studio in 2005. As a designer, she has collaborated on large-scale textile projects and collections. Her work has been exhibited internationally. Through workshops, she shares her love of mending and making with reclaimed materials.
The ritual of Kalamkari: Open Studio with Nikita
In person / Open Studio / Dyeing
A contemporary practitioner of Kalamkari and one of the only working with this tradition in the U.S., Nikita Shah opens her studio for a day-long event inviting the public into her process. Kalamkari is a 23-step hand-drawn and naturally dyed textile tradition from South Asia that Shah has studied and adapted over the past decade, working closely with artisans in India and bringing the practice into her studio in New York.
Throughout the day, she will share works-in-progress, live demonstrations, and the materials and tools that make up this intricate craft. From fermented black ink and myrobalan to alum and madder. Visitors are welcome to drop in any time between 12:00pm and 6:00pm to engage with the work, ask questions, and learn how this traditional form continues to evolve in migratory lands and contemporary context.
This open studio is both a space of transparency and an invitation to slow down, observe, and connect with the tactile and narrative power of handmade cloth. It offers a glimpse into not just finished work, but also the process and thinking that sustains a living craft practice today.
Short presentations on the history of Kalamkari and Shah’s practice will be held at 2:00pm and 4:00pm.
Nikita Shah (b. Mumbai, India) is a Brooklyn-based textile artist, designer and educator working with Kalamkari, a 3,000-year-old textile tradition currently practiced exclusively in Sri Kalahasti, India. She adheres to its most traditional methods, using a bamboo kalam (pen) and natural dyes derived from minerals and plants.
While Kalamkari is often associated with Chintz, Tree of Life motifs, and the rich chay (madder) pigment, Shah’s practice focuses on its lesser-known lineage: narrative storycloths known locally as vrata pani (Telugu for “writing work”).
Her work centers self-expression, embodied memory, and collective storytelling. Drawing from intergenerational knowledge and lived experience, she explores themes such as the somatic impact of abuse, the grief of existing within patriarchal systems, and migration. Through the narrative potential of Kalamkari, she experiments with forms such as self-portraiture, abstraction, and soft sculpture - examining the medium’s reparative possibilities.
STITCHED BOTANICAL Floral Patchwork
In person / Workshop / Sewing
Join Elodie for a hands-on fiber art workshop using upcycled textiles!
In this creative session, you'll learn techniques such as cutting, gluing, and sewing to craft your own floral collage. Your artwork can become a unique wall hanging or be transformed into a brooch or hair clip.
All skill levels are welcome.
Workshop Fee: $50 (includes all materials for this 2-hour class)
Elodie Blanchard is a French-American artist and designer. She transforms discarded textiles—used clothing and remnants—into sculptures, wall hangings, and installations. Her process blends layering, stitching, and embroidery to create a playful yet strange world that invites joy and curiosity while reflecting on imperfection and memory. Trained in sculpture and fashion at the Beaux-Arts in Paris and at CalArts in Los Angeles, she founded her Brooklyn studio in 2005. As a designer, she has collaborated on large-scale textile projects and collections. Her work has been exhibited internationally. Through workshops, she shares her love of mending and making with reclaimed materials.
Live Sashimi x Amin & Nuclear Waste: Mutant Creatures
Online / Exhibition / Crochet
Peiyang (Camille) Li is hosting an online exhibition of her previous marine-themed collections: #1 "Live Sashimi x Aqin" is an ethical fashion collection that raises awareness for the environment and questions the existence of a brutal tradition held in a small village in Japan; #2 "Nuclear Waste: Mutant Creatures" is a fiber art collection which as a warning for pouring the nuclear water into the Pacific Ocean by applying various textile-based craft techniques, such as crochet, machine knitting, etc.
Peiyang (Camille) Li is a multidisciplinary fashion and textile designer based in New York. She is the recipient of the iF Design Award 2025 and the MUSE Design Award 2023, and was a member of the Female Design Council for her contributions to sustainable development. Blending handcrafted techniques—such as crocheting and ruching—with narrative-driven design, her work is inspired by her background in astrology and her deep interest in oceanic environments. Through tactile, culturally and environmentally reflective textile expressions, she explores emotional storytelling and raises critical ethical questions.
Art Speaks: The Visual Language of Basketry
Online / Talk / Basketry
Join Textile Center for a special Art Speaks conversation on “The Visual Language of Basketry” featuring fiber artists Ann Coddington, Carol Eckert, and Pat Hickman in conversation with art historian Dr. Diana Greenwold (Smithsonian) as they explore trends in contemporary basketry.
This online conversation coincides with Basketry Now 2025 (July 29 - October 18, 2025), a special exhibition co-presented by Textile Center of Minnesota and the National Basketry Organization (NBO), and juried by Gyöngy Laky. Showcasing 63 contemporary basketry artists working in a variety of materials including foraged and repurposed, and using numerous techniques including twining, weaving, coiling, looping, netting, and interlacing, the work in Basketry Now 2025 explores early traditions of making as well as sculptural forms that push the category of basketry in new directions.
Textile Center is a national center for fiber art based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Our mission is to honor textile traditions, promote excellence and innovation, nurture appreciation, and inspire widespread participation in fiber art. Textile Center offers classes and related educational programming for all ages, levels, and abilities. In addition to our classroom spaces, Textile Center’s facility features fiber art galleries with rotating exhibitions, an artisan shop which supports working artists, a 300-seat auditorium, a professional-grade dye lab, a natural dye plant garden, and the Pat O’Connor Library, one of the nation’s largest circulating textile libraries open to the public.
Fiber in Focus: Textile and Fiber Art at TI Art Studios
In person / Open Studio / Multiple Techniques
"Fiber in Focus," a three-day open studio event at TI Art Studios, will showcase textile and fiber art. Located in an expansive studio building at the edge of Brooklyn's Red Hook and Gowanus neighborhoods, the event offers an opportunity to explore the vibrant world of working fiber artists.
This event provides a unique chance to delve into the diverse and intricate world of fiber art by visiting the individual studios of six dedicated artists, each with a distinct approach and a variety of mediums.
- Natale Adgnot is a sculptor who uses mixed media, including fabrics, horsehair, and thermoplastics, to create fiber and textile sculptures.
- Nicholas Cueva's work is a multifaceted exploration of fabrics in the context of visual information and compression, expanding on the texture and pattern of different weaves.
- Sandra Giunta, inspired by the natural world, creates felted and stitched sculptural pieces with wool and other natural fibers to highlight interconnectedness and biiophilia.
- Kathie Halfin weaves sustainable materials such as sisal, flax, and hand-spun paper to create tactile sculptures rooted in weaving and basket-making traditions.
- Elise Putnam draws on fabric using crayon, dye, collage, appliqué, and embroidery to create exaggerated self-portraits that reflect familiar characterizations of women, such as fairy tale characters and art historical figures.
- Melissa Zexter combines traditional embroidery skills with photography, sewing directly onto her unique photographs. Through her manipulation of the image’s surface, the photographs become unique, non-reproducible objects.
Visitors are invited to witness works in progress and gain insight into the creative process, from initial concept to detailed execution. This event is a chance to engage directly with the artists, discuss their unique practices, and learn firsthand about the dedication and skill involved in their craft.
Dates and Hours:
Friday 09/12 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Saturday and Sunday 09/13 - 09/14 12:00 - 5:00 PM
No registration required
TI Art Studios presents a vibrant collective of six textile artists, all working within our dynamic community of many resident artists. As exhibitors for New York Textile Month, we're excited to offer visitors a unique opportunity to step directly into our working studios. You'll witness a diverse range of fiber art come to life, from the intricate textures sewing and weaving to the delicate stitches of embroidery and the fluid forms of wet felting. Our unique approaches to fiber mediums reflect the rich tapestry of artistic talent fostered at TI Art Studios, offering a compelling and immersive experience for all attendees.
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Color in Reaction: Exploring Metal and Natural Dye
In person / Workshop / Dyeing
This hands-on natural dye workshop invites participants to explore how different metals interact with plant-based dyes to create shifts in color, texture, and meaning. Using materials such as madder, sappan wood, cape jasmine, and other botanical dyes, we will experiment with a range of natural fibers including wool, silk, cotton, and linen.
Participants will be able to choose from a variety of materials to work with during each session. Options may include cotton, wool, or silk yarns, wool roving, cotton shirts and bags. The workshop will take place across multiple sessions, with different materials offered each time to encourage continued experimentation and new discoveries.
This workshop is inspired by the artist’s research into Newtown Creek, a local waterway heavily affected by industrial waste, including long-term metal contamination. Being part of the local community has led her to wonder what kinds of pollutants exist in the environment around us, and how creative practices like dyeing can help us see and engage with these issues in new ways. Watching how metals alter the behavior of natural dyes becomes a way of making environmental pollution visible through fiber and color.
No previous experience is required. All materials are provided. This is an open invitation to anyone interested in color, material, and the stories they carry. Whether you are curious about natural dyeing, drawn to tactile experimentation, or interested in the environmental histories of New York's waterways, you are warmly welcome. Artists, makers, researchers, and neighbors are all invited to join.
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Jing Pei is a textile artist and researcher based in New York. Her work explores the relationship between materials, the environment, and memories from her upbringing. With a background in environmental engineering, she brings a scientific perspective to her practice, incorporating environmental data and site-specific research to investigate pollution, restoration, and ecological change. Her process is grounded in handcraft and material experimentation, using fiber to make visible what is often unseen in environmental systems. Jing holds an MFA in Textiles and an AAS in Fashion Design from Parsons School of Design, and a bachelor's degree in Environmental Engineering from Tianjin University. She shares her work through exhibitions, workshops, and collaborative projects that center sustainability, ecological awareness, and material curiosity.
Intro to (Upcycled) Knitting
In person / Workshop / Knitting
Join Next Season for an evening of knitting with reclaimed yarn. For those new to knitting, arrive early for a beginner-friendly lesson covering knitting basics like casting on and garter stitch, and how to make a simple and colorful scarf out of scrap yarn. More experienced knitters can drop in with their own projects or start something new using our provided materials.
Anne Warren is the founder of upcycled knitwear brand Next Season. A long time hand-knitter, she started Next Season in 2024 as means to explore remanufacturing and circular systems for fashion. Next Season knitwear is made by hand in Brooklyn with a domestic knitting machine, using yarn reclaimed from old, damaged sweaters along with deadstock and scraps.
Reed Anderson: FLAGWORKS Opening Exhibition
In person / Exhibition / Sewing
Gallery 1923 presents the exhibition FLAGWORKS, featuring artist Reed Anderson.
An amalgam of vibrant popular culture and minimalist aesthetic, Anderson explores the language of flags as both personal and cultural symbol; semaphores whose colours celebrate a collective unity and contradict the polemic nature of flag as emblem of “us and them”.
Sewn from new and recycled rip-stop nylon familiar to spinnaker sails, kites, burgees and sports banners, Anderson engages with the formalism of painting as a sewn object. Rather than displayed outside, the work is exhibited indoors and takes a more formal
role of shrine or celebratory alter, the colours engaging our senses and reflecting in the light.
Banners join this exhibition and diverge from the singularity of the flags, embodying a temporal quality akin to film or a musical score. In addition, the banners are not fixed and can be "played" in various hanging arrangements in space. They require the viewer to navigate around them to fully experience the work. The choreography of the viewer is as important as the artwork, creating a species of dance that maintains a connection to the temporal.
Anderson will also show a selection of studies made during the Summer while at his family retreat in Canada.
No registration required
Opening Friday 09/19 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Saturday 09/20 12:00 - 6:00 PM
Exhibition Open until 09/30 by appointment
This event also has an exhibition page, check here: Exhibition: Sept 20th - Sept 30th
Reed Anderson was born in NYC and received a BFA in printmaking from the San Francisco Institute of Art after first studying painting at the Cleveland Institute of Art. He attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and later received an MFA in Studio Arts from Stanford University.
Anderson has exhibited nationally and internationally for over 25 years, and his work is included in the permanent collections of institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY), the AKG collection (Buffalo, NY), and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (Austria), among others.
Poetry of the Rocks
In person / Workshop / Felting
Join OKsana, for a special workshop where the artist will share the behind-the-scenes process of my newest work, Poetry of Rocks—a large-scale Nuno Felting installation currently in progress for the Nassau County Museum of Art. Make a day of it—after the workshop, enjoy a stroll through the museum's beautiful grounds and don't miss the current exhibition, At Play.
During this informal session, Oksana will show the wet felting technique and explain why she has chosen this sustainable method for the project. She will also discuss the materials—such as locally sourced wool from New York State and repurposed scraps from my eco printing practice—and how they relate to her message of renewal, transition, and the cycles of life.
Poetry of the Stones is more than a textile installation; it’s a reflection on change, impermanence, and the quiet strength we find in nature. I’ll share my vision and invite you to take part by creating small Nuno Felted “stones” of your own, which may even become part of the final piece.
Oksana is a natural-born creator with a passion for textile art. She was born in Moscow, Russia, and received a classical art education from the Moscow School of Art. Pursuing her love of design, she continued to study textile design at the Moscow State Textile University, where she received a Master's Degree in 1986.
Since arriving in New York in 1991, she has worked as a freelance textile artist for numerous studios including Printfolio, Design Works International, and Group Four.
While Oksana's artistic journey has taken her across continents, she remains deeply rooted in her community on Long Island. She shares her expertise and passion for art as a teacher at the Suffolk County Art Museum and through workshops organized by the Huntington Arts Council. Her professional affiliations include the Art Leagues of Long Island and the Long Island Craft Guild.
Zero-Waste Pattern Drafting with Goldfinch Textile Studio
In person / Open Studio / Patternmaking
Explore the concepts of Zero-Waste Pattern Drafting with Goldfinch Textile Studio. Zero-waste pattern drafting considers fabric use and consumption from the design's inception to minimize textile waste throughout the project.
Join designer Emily Klug for a discussion of her design process and a demonstration of how she drafts a minimal-waste garment. Learn how interlocking pattern pieces result in fewer off-cuts but make multi-sized pattern grading a real challenge. Hosted by Loom & Stars Fabric, this free drop-in event will feature zero-waste garment samples along with a hands-on project to help you better understand the concepts of zero-waste pattern drafting.
No registration required.
Goldfinch Textile Studio offers meticulously designed digital sewing patterns that prioritize sustainability and minimize fabric waste. Goldfinch Textile Studio provide innovative pattern layouts and cutting techniques, enabling you to create stylish and modern garments while utilizing your fabric resources efficiently. Zero-waste sewing maximizes fabric utilization, resulting in reduced textile waste and a more environmentally responsible approach to crafting.
Fiber of Being - Opening Reception
In person / Exhibition / Multiple techniques
An exhibition by Culture Lab LIC in collaboration with the Textile Study Group of New York. “The Fiber of Being” explores the enduring significance of fiber art in contemporary life. This exhibition explores how textiles, with their rich histories of handcraft and cultural storytelling, continue to be profoundly relevant—bridging the physical and the virtual, the traditional and the contemporary. How does fiber art assert material presence in an increasingly immaterial world? Fiber is not just a medium but a metaphor for the interconnected threads of existence, weaving together the past, present, and the future. Curated by Caitlin McCormack.
Opening Reception September 25th 2025 6-9pm.
Exhibition on view: September 25 to November 2 2025
ART GALLERY is open Thursday & Friday, 5-9pm, and Saturday & Sunday, 2-9pm.
No Registration Required
This event also has an exhibition page, check here: Exhibition: Sept 25th - Nov 2nd
Culture Lab LIC is a 501(c)(3) formed to be the arts and culture umbrella for Western Queens. We present local, national, and international art of all genres, while supporting New York artists and other nonprofits by providing space, resources and a sense of community.
Textile Study Group of New York is a 501(c)(3) formed to educate and promote a wider appreciation of fiber art among the larger art community and the public in general. We are an inclusive and diverse group of artists, teachers, curators, writers, and appreciators.
Exploring Longwool Behavior in Woven Textiles
In person / Talk / Weaving
Discover the extraordinary possibilities of using local longwool yarns with master weaver Stephanie Seal Brown. While these robust fibers may not offer next-to-skin softness, their exceptional length, strength, thickness and lack of shrinkage create fabrics with natural durability, brilliant luster and flowing drape—qualities that make them ideally suited for outerwear and interiors.
Descended from sheep brought by Romans to British shores and later perfected through Robert Bakewell's 18th-century breeding program, these now-endangered breeds still produce truly distinctive fibers with remarkable properties. Once prized for hardwearing textiles, longwool gradually vanished from manufacturing as mills prioritized softer, more versatile medium wools. these breeds thrive in our northern, cold, damp climate, the time has come to explore their possibilities anew.
Through her work primarily with Lincoln Longwool from Emmaline Long and Orchard View Lincolns, Stephanie highlights how these heritage fibers create textiles with distinctive character and performance, demonstrating their unique advantages for specific applications and offering contemporary designers exciting possibilities in textile development.
Stephanie Seal Brown is a master handweaver and textile designer in the Hudson Valley. Her work in the interiors industry spans both collaborations with Schumacher and her studio-produced collections, where she has become known for her distinctive linen tape trims.
By not automating the weaving process, she remains intimately involved at every step. Every inch of yarn passes through her hands multiple times as it is prepared and woven, with small changes and continuous iterations. Slowing down allows aesthetics, function, longevity, and materials to develop and find voice in the final design.