NYTM 2025 Multiple Days Events
The Pocket Project Plus (plus is a fabric yarn making how-to)
In person / Workshop / Multiple Techniques
Why don't women's clothes have enough pockets? The Pocket Project resolves this scarcity one pocket at a time. Okay, anyone is welcome to get a pocket on anything. Bring something that could use a pocket and Sandye will sew a pocket on for you. There will be a variety of fabric available for the pockets or you can bring your own fabric to use.
Pocketing brings new life to anything that's pocketed , even the word pocket is transformed. This splendid upcycling lessens textile waste. To further lessen the textile waste Sandye will also have scheduled demonstrations on how to make fabric yarn out of t-shirts, sweatpants, pillowcases, basically any unused fabric. You are welcome to bring anything you would like to transform into yarn. You can then use this yarn to make something new and wonderful, such as a rug, or a beach bag.
Saturday, Sept 6 and Sunday, Sept 7 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM (1:00 PM demo)
Saturday, Sept 13 and Sunday, Sept 14 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM (1:00 PM demo)
Saturday, Sept 20 and Sunday, Sept 15 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM (1:00 PM demo)
Saturday, Sept 27 and Sunday, Sept 28 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM (1:00 PM demo)
No registration required
Sandye is a 3rd generation Brooklyn textile entrepreneur and a 2nd generation recycler and composter. She was the fastest sewing machine threader in her home-ec class.
The Pocket Project is Sandye's functional response to why women's apparel doesn't have enough pockets. Her addition of pockets to people's items revitalizes and renews any underused piece with new found function and interest. While pocketing, Sandye found that everyone had a profound pocket comment and/or story. These stories and memories add so much to The Pocket Project.
Sandye also recycles textiles by making fabric yarn from forgotten textiles and using this yarn to craft functional pieces that tell a new story. Transformative recycling, and ultimately the incorporated memories, are integral to all of Sandye's creative textile work.
Fill pockets not landfills.
Threaded Paths: Global Stories - Exhibition
In person / Exhibition / Multiple Techniques
From Needle to Narrative: Threaded Paths Weaves Over 50 Journeys into One Global Story brings together over 50 small narrative textiles from makers around the world. Each piece captures a personal journey through stitches, patterns, and textures, reflecting themes of identity, migration, and shared memory. Crafted by participants of all skill levels, the works merge traditional and contemporary techniques, forming a collective tapestry of diverse voices. Conceived by artist and costume designer Valerie Ramshur, Associate Professor at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, the exhibition—hosted by 3RD ETHOS Gallery—is both archive and artwork, mapping human connection through the language of fiber.
No registration required.
Opening Reception Friday 09/19 6:00 – 8:00 PM
Exhibition Dates 09/16 – 09/28 Daily Hours 2:00 – 10:00 PM
Threaded Paths is a global collaborative textile project by artist and costume designer Valerie Ramshur, inviting makers worldwide to stitch personal stories into a vibrant collective archive. Each piece—crafted by participants of all skill levels—celebrates cultural identity, shared history, memory, and migration. Traditional and contemporary techniques intertwine, reflecting the diversity of voices and experiences. Ramshur, Associate Professor at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, explores storytelling through garments, trade routes, and material culture. Together, these works create a living tapestry that connects communities across borders through the shared language of textiles.
ENUNDO (Circles of Motion)
In person / Exhibition / Weaving , Entwining & Spin silk
ENUNDO (Circles of Motion) is a collaborative exhibition honoring the legacy of Kyoto-based textile master Akihiko Izukura and expanding his philosophy through contemporary expression.
Co-organized by NYC-based fiber artist Nobuko Tsuruta and Remnant & Co. Japan (Toyoko Motojima, Mika Ichikawa), the exhibition features fiber installations, wearable art, and a short film. At its center is ENUNDO, a meditative documentary by Kazuki Fujimoto that follows the creation of a monumental silk sphere spun by 10,000 silkworms, embodying Izukura’s zero-waste principles and deep reverence for nature.
Tsuruta, profoundly influenced by Izukura’s vision, incorporates his remaining silk threads and fabrics into her freeform weavings and garments. During the opening reception, performers will wear these one-of-a-kind pieces in an intuitive performance that brings the works to life in space—breathing, moving, and responding to the moment.
Workshops led by Remnant & Co. will offer participants the opportunity to create silk scarves using naturally dyed mawata (hand-pulled silk), inviting a tactile dialogue with the material. Garments made from Izukura’s rare textiles will also be available to try on and purchase.
ENUNDO offers a rare chance to encounter silk as a living medium and to experience the timeless spiritual essence of Japanese craft across generations.
No Registration Required
Exhibition Hours
Tuesday, Sept 16 – Thursday, Sept 18: 12:00–6:00 PM
Friday, Sept 19: No regular gallery hours. Opening reception with a short live performance, 6:00–8:00 PM only
Saturday, Sept 20: 12:00–6:00 PM
Sunday, Sept 21: Closed
Monday, Sept 22: 12:00–4:00 PM
Nobuko Tsuruta
A Japanese fiber artist based in New York, she creates installations, experimental fashion, and performances using traditional and innovative techniques. Originally from Kamakura, she is a certified SAORI weaving instructor who connects communities through workshops and explores fiber as a living, expressive medium.
Remnant&Co.
On the sudden announcement of the retirement of Akihiko Izukura, a natural dyeing and weaving artist in the summer of 2021, Remnant & Co. continues to plan and organize exhibitions related to Izukura's creations, unique exhibits and events that convey his ideas and philosophy, workshops, and educational activities for SDGs education in Japan and abroad.
NOT-A-NORMAL FALL SHOW I
In person/ Fair / Multiple Techniques
Not-A-Normal Show returns this fall with its most ambitious edition yet. Hosted by Normal NYC at Canyon Essex in the Lower East Side, the three-floor cultural marketplace will bring together 300+ vendors and 10,000+ attendees across vintage, design, fashion, home, and art. Spanning two weekends — September 19–21 and 26–28, 2025 — the show transforms 40,000 sq ft into an immersive experience that blends retail, culture, and community. Visitors can expect curated shopping, food and beverage partners, and new programming designed to connect makers, collectors, and design enthusiasts in a dynamic, communal setting.
Normal NYC is a multi-service creative company founded by Lale Boz in 2020. Rooted in sustainability and community, Normal spans interior design, estate sales, and large-scale cultural events. Its flagship project, the Not-A-Normal Show, has become one of New York’s most influential marketplaces, bringing together over 300 vendors and 10,000 attendees each season across vintage, design, fashion, and home. With past shows staged inside the iconic Barneys building, Normal now expands into Canyon Essex and beyond, reimagining retail as an immersive cultural experience and championing independent makers, circular design, and meaningful community connections.
Fiber of Being - Exhibition
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
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.
NOT-A-NORMAL FALL SHOW II
In person/ Fair / Multiple Techniques
Not-A-Normal Show returns this fall with its most ambitious edition yet. Hosted by Normal NYC at Canyon Essex in the Lower East Side, the three-floor cultural marketplace will bring together 300+ vendors and 10,000+ attendees across vintage, design, fashion, home, and art. Spanning two weekends — September 19–21 and 26–28, 2025 — the show transforms 40,000 sq ft into an immersive experience that blends retail, culture, and community. Visitors can expect curated shopping, food and beverage partners, and new programming designed to connect makers, collectors, and design enthusiasts in a dynamic, communal setting.
Normal NYC is a multi-service creative company founded by Lale Boz in 2020. Rooted in sustainability and community, Normal spans interior design, estate sales, and large-scale cultural events. Its flagship project, the Not-A-Normal Show, has become one of New York’s most influential marketplaces, bringing together over 300 vendors and 10,000 attendees each season across vintage, design, fashion, and home. With past shows staged inside the iconic Barneys building, Normal now expands into Canyon Essex and beyond, reimagining retail as an immersive cultural experience and championing independent makers, circular design, and meaningful community connections.
Syncretism
In person / Exhibition / Multiple Techniques
This exhibition begins from the understanding that movement and migration are inherent to life and that with movement comes exchange, transformation, and the possibility of new forms. How can we leave room to interact with, learn from, and be transformed by beings, traditions, and cultures different from ourselves without being appropriative and extractive? What becomes possible when we embrace polyphony over purity?
Here, boundaries are porous, materials metamorphose, and differences are embedded in webs of relationships. Traditions, materials, and textile techniques not usually combined sit side by side, converse, and reshape one another in the process.
In a world shaped by both forced and chosen movement, Syncretism invites reflection on the shared human impulse to create meaning in motion, and on the radical potential of blending, rather than separating, ways of being.
September 30 - October 2 Open by appointment 11 AM-6 PM, please email 24 hours ahead.
October 3 Opening Reception 6-9 PM
October 4 - 6 Programming / Artist Talks TBA
Romilly Rinck is a visual artist, material researcher, and educator based in New York, NY. Working in sculpture and installation, she explores embodied materialities through traditional textile techniques and experimental material processes. Romilly received her MFA in Textiles from Parsons School of Design (2023) and her BA in History of Art and Material Studies from University College London (2015). She has been an artist-in-residence at the NARS Foundation and LMCC's Arts Center Residency in New York. She is currently a part-time faculty member at Parsons School of Design.
Jasmin Risk is a NY-based interdisciplinary artist, writer, and curator. Their work has been exhibited and performed at Arnold and Sheila Aronson Gallery (NY), The Zetland Basement (UK), Recession Art (Brooklyn), Dixon Place (NY), Dye House 451 (UK), The Glasshouse (NY), and Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Brooklyn), among others. Risk’s work is featured in numerous publications, including Girls Get Busy Zine and Luma Quarterly. Risk earned their BFA in Fine Arts from Parsons in 2016, and their MFA in Textiles at Parsons in 2023. Risk is a recipient of the 2022 MFA Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) scholarship.
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, Sept 12, 2025: 6:00–8:00 PM
Saturday & Sunday, Sept 13–14, 2025: 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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@nicholascueva
@sangiunta
@eclectic_body
@putnamelise
@MelissaZexter
Salt Water Remembers - AIR16 Final Exhibition
In-Person / Exhibition Opening / Multiple Techniques
Join us on September 11 to celebrate the opening of AIR 16's Final Exhibition, 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm, at Textile Arts Center (505 Carroll Street, NY, 11215).
On view: September 11 - 24, 2025
Salt Water Remembers features works by the 16th cycle of Textile Arts Center’s Artist In Residence program, curated by TAC + AIR16.
“What we hold close: fiber, pigment, plants, and scraps.
We gather our work into a living vessel, a constellation of materials and gestures that trace what remains. Salt Water Remembers invites us to see through obscurity, to feel in the dark, to move through the silence where history slips away.
This exhibition unfolds as a meditation on memory, inheritance, and the unseen systems that shape and hold us. Stitched constellations, sculpted roots, and ephemeral installations- we illuminate the cycles of decay/renewal, displacement/belonging, concealment/presence.
Our work is shaped by what the world casts off: fruit skins, dyed scraps, artifacts of daily use. These materials trace lineage, loss, and possibility. From corn husks to mycelial threads, each piece resists erasure. What has been overlooked is honored. What has been detached is re-stitched into form.
These works emerge in a moment when the world itself feels precarious, shifting, splintering, circling back. We find ourselves once again in the midst of upheaval. Wars rage, ideologies harden, and the shadows of empire and division creep forward. Historic patterns repeat, in our memory, and in our embodied reality. In light of these forces, we offer remembrance, resilience, and repair. Networks of care thrive beneath the surface, unseen but alive.
We consider the body as archive, language as residue, and nature as collaborator. We reimagine textiles as sites of ritual, landscapes, maps, and tools for bearing witness to gestures both intimate and galactic. Some works consider displacement and the weight of colonial frameworks. Others meander to magic, sensing the invisible through alchemy and intuition. There is grief here, and also reverence. A tenderness in how loss is held and transformed. Each of us offers a different form of storytelling, rooted in lived experience, imagination, in personal myth and communal memory.” - by AIR 16
TAC AIR16: Quinci Baker, Fay Ku, Josué Morales Urbina, Leo Pontius, Malaika Temba, Mark Fleuridor, Faviola Lopez-Romani, Rose Malenfant.
Textile Arts Center (TAC) is a NYC-based resource facility dedicated to raising awareness and understanding of textiles through creative educational programs for children and adults. At TAC, we unite and empower the textile community and advocate for the handmade by providing accessible, skills-based classes that reinvigorate engagement with traditional crafts.
Two Designers Meld East & West
In person / Exhibition / Multiple Techniques
The love of beautifully hand-crafted textiles is the thread that connects Hatsumi Yoshida and Mary Jaeger, two independent designers who work across international borders. Having exhibited together in Kyoto (2024), they'll reunite this year in Brooklyn for NYTM X. Their collections focus on layering materials, dyeing techniques, hand-stitching and unexpected embellishments. They create innovative wearable and interior works that embody sustainability and eco-consciousness as they navigate the cross-cultural tensions of small-scale artisanal production and global trade. Their unconventional textiles are collected by those who wish to wear and surround themselves - at home, at work, at play - with the extraordinary beauty and energy of the hand-made.
Get inspired by their stories at Exhibition Opening Artist's Talks on Saturday, Sept 6, 2025: 2:00 PM.
Explore and collect their work at Mary's atelier in Williamsburg from Saturday, Sept 6 – Sunday, Sept 14, 2025: 12:00–6:00 PM (other times by appointment).
Get informed about current design issues at two distinct panel discussions on Sunday, Sept 7 & Sunday, Sept 14,2025: 2:00 PM
Experiment with materials at a workshop on Saturday, Sept 13, 2025: 2:00–4:00 PM (check event here)
No registration required
"The core of my work is inspired by my passion for color, texture, pattern, and handcrafted details." — Mary Jaeger
Mary Jaeger's work is about modern elegance and rich traditions. Uncluttered textiles and accessories reflect her aesthetic, melding ancient Eastern and contemporary Western design. Drawing on years spent in Japan and other areas of Asia and Europe, she creates timeless collections of hand-dyed textiles for wearable accessories and interiors that seamlessly move between seasons, places, and occasions.
“I want my clothing to enhance the self-expression of those who wear them” — Hatsumi Yoshida
Hatsumi Yoshida is committed to the creative activity of making clothing and accessories. Her unique textiles and bold, supple designs create a one-of-a-kind presence, drawing admirers from both men and women alike. Hatsumi’s work has been exhibited across Japan, New York and Jakarta, captivating audiences and inviting them to discover a new version of themselves, conscious of sustainable materials and upcycling.