In person / Opening Reception / Multiple Techniques
This is an opportunity for all our featured artists to showcase their work together, to invite their friends and fans and make a fuss. Bubbly and light bites will be served and we will promote like mad.
Programming & Events
Pockets & Yarn Marking from T’s and Sweats with Sandye Renz
Saturday, Sept 6 and Sunday, Sept 7 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Saturday, Sept 13 and Sunday, Sept 14 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Saturday, Sept 20 and Sunday, Sept 15 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Saturday, Sept 27 and Sunday, Sept 28 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Re-Dye Club: Drop off your stained or faded garments to be dyed!
All month long!
Dr Mend’s Surgery with Kate Sekules
Saturday, Sept 13 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Tailoring & Upcycle Consultations (wt) with Miranda Watson
Saturday, Sept 20 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Sunday, Sept 21 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Saturday, Sept 27 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Sunday, Sept 28 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Embroidery with Tattoo’d Cloth
Sunday, Sept 28 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
GEMINI & CAPRICORN
Esther McGowan (Gemini) and Alexandra Morrill (Capricorn) share a lifetime passion for vintage clothing, and we started our shop to share that passion with you. We go on the hunt in cities throughout the U.S., finding unique pieces from the 1940s to Y2K and making them available to you at affordable prices. We bring our joint expertise in fashion, art, music, design, and trend forecasting to our shop and to Instagram (@geminiandcapricorn) where we share vintage fashion images and style inspiration.
https://www.etsy.com/shop/geminiandcapricorn
MIRANDA WATSON
MIRANDA WATSON is a Brooklyn-based sustainable clothing and accessories brand made in NYC. We offer tailoring and alteration services, specializing in serving the trans and non-binary communities, as well as business coaching and sewing lessons. MIRANDA WATSON has been featured in Vogue, Paper Magazine and most recently Harper’s Bazaar, highlighting our safe tailoring approach to all bodies.
The Pocket Project and Fabric Yarn Making with Sandye Renz
I was born a maker and recycler. I'm the 3rd generation of Brooklyn textile entrepreneurs. My gram sold hand-made lingerie out of her home in Coney Island, then opened a clothing shoppe (her artifice)around the corner on Neptune Ave. My mom taught me to knit when I was 5, while she was pregnant and making booties for my youngest brother. She later had a children's hand knit sweater business called totknots. I was the fastest sewing machine threader in my home-ec class.
Now my work focuses on fun and functional revitalization of apparel and accessories and basically all textiles. These splendid transformed items can now be reused while retaining their memories and stories to share. Fill pockets not landfills.
TATTOO’D CLOTH
Ramell Frederick, AKA Cheeks, is a Brooklyn NY based chainstitch artist and founder of Tattoo’d Cloth. Working on a century-old Singer 114w103, he infuses vintage style, analog craftsmanship, and bold storytelling into every piece, bringing garments to life one stitch at a time. Known for on-site embroidery activations and collaborations with brands and stores, Ramell’s work blends heritage technique with contemporary culture, stitched live wherever he sets up shop.
REDYE CLUB
Jessi Highet Studio is a textile dye shop that specializes in unique application techniques to achieve illustrative effects on garments and home goods. The science and experimentation of dye is ultimately what inspired Jessi to build her business and to come up with new sustainable solutions to common problems within the textile industry.
This brings us to introducing Re-dye Club which Jessi and her collaborator, Nina Bowers devised together as a seasonal program to upcycle home linens and garments to create one-of-a-kind pieces.
https://jessihighetstudio.com/redye-club
KATE SEKULES
Kate Sekules is a mending and fashion historian, professor, and practitioner. She lectures widely, runs frequent events and repair clinics, including Dr Mend’s clothes surgeries and the monthly Darn It! club at Textile Arts Center, Brooklyn, and hosts #MendMarch on Instagram. She has published and presented academic research at over two dozen symposia internationally, is completing her doctoral dissertation, A History and Theory of Mending at Bard Graduate Center, NYC, and teaches fashion history—and mending—at Pratt Institute, Parsons and BGC. She is author of MEND! A Refashioning Manual and Manifesto (Penguin, 2020)
A.MANO Brooklyn is a creatively curated home décor shop featuring work by local Brooklyn artists, vintage finds and up-cycled fine furniture. We also have fun and clever gifts, stationery products and garden items.
The store opened in 2020 as an e-commerce brand called Cain Sloan, which was a department store founded by my great grandfather in Nashville, TN in 1903. When we moved into the new retail space at 585 Dean Street I rebranded as A.MANO Brooklyn to reflect the handmade nature of the work available in the store.