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Deep Cuts: Block Printing Across Cultures
Deep Cuts: Block Printing Across Cultures explores the world's oldest and most versatile method of making multiple images. More than 150 works from Asia, Europe, and the Americas present the medium as both a means of creative expression and a vehicle for mass production that enabled images and ideas to circulate widely.
Pattern Keepers/ Working Lore
Two year-long interdisciplinary programs of embroidery workshops with TALA member Shango of Folk Lounge.
Pattern Keepers is the Beginner embroidery class, Working Lore follows immediately after for Intermediate level makers.
GUILLERMO BERT: TECHNO-EMPATHY
This exhibition shows the Chilean-born artist Guillermo Bert bringing technology and empathy in novel and powerful ways. He uses three principal tools, all of them uncommon in most art production: QR codes, 3-D imaging, and laser engraving.
Hammer Projects: Mike Cloud
Mike Cloud will exhibit works from Painted Clothing (2007–8), a series of collages fashioned from children’s clothing, which comments on the relationship between consumer culture and childhood through visual signifiers such as dragons, fairies, and rainbows.
Ryan Belli: Of Two Minds
Marta is pleased to announce Of Two Minds, an exhibition of new functional-sculptural work by Pasadena-based artist and designer Ryan Belli.
Interlace: Textile Connections in Los Angeles
Interlace: Textile Connections in Los Angeles, brings together 20 Los Angeles-based artists working across weaving, knotting, stitching, felting, basketry, and surface design, and includes a month-long, publicly accessible artist residency.
Timeline of Our Ancestors: Costumes, Textiles & Stories
Dive into Armenian culture at Litavie Art Gallery with vibrant dresses and rich textile stories.
Samizdat Sundays
Join the Wende for Samizdat Sundays—hands‑on textile workshops inspired by the spirit of creative resistance and DIY culture found in samizdat traditions. Each week offers a different project, connecting archival stories of subversion with contemporary making.
layer by layer: Sarah Rosalena
Make Room is proud to present Sarah Rosalena’s exhibition layer by layer: bringing together a new body of handwoven works that shift and collapse spatial dimensionality between landscape and atmosphere.
Natural Dye EcoPrinting Workshop
Join textile artist Caitlin Parker to learn the craft of eco-printing and create your own plant prints on fabric.
Bead Society Pop Up
Meet artists, vendors and people who just enjoy making beautiful creations! Bead artists, world textile collectors and vendors, beadweaving demonstrations.
Embroidery Socials
Get ready to stitch, chat, and laugh together! Join us for a rejuvenating morning with Folk Lounge.
Pattern Keepers: Closing Reception
Celebrate the work of the Pattern Keepers with a mingle, community exhibit and artist presentation.
Connect with the Pasadena Heritage team and learn about the future of Heritage Hands.
Intro to Weaving
In this two-day course with Emily Graham, you will weave a twill sampler on a four-shaft floor loom and experiment with color and pattern!
Learn to Weave
Learn the fundamentals of weaving with TALA member Cameron Taylor-Brown as you set up a floor loom, experiment with yarns and basic weaves, and make a scarf, table runner, or wall hanging.
Let's Get It On: The Wearable Art of Betye Saar
Let’s Get It On: The Wearable Art of Betye Saar explores the central role of costume design in Saar’s early career, as well as throughout her life as both a mother and an artist
Resilience
LAUNCH LA is proud to present Resilience, with Los Angeles–based artists Jane Bauman, Deborah Lynn Irmas and Michelle Robinson and their new works steeped in observation, meditation and fortitude.
Earthen Comforts: Airing Earth
Earthen Comforts: Airing Earth is a courtyard installation led by Liz Gálvez (Office e.g.) that stages mass and fiber as shared infrastructures for collective comfort in the Los Angeles summer.
Matcha Tea Whisk Demo
This spring, JAPAN HOUSE Los Angeles welcomes 20th-generation chasen master Tango Tanimura for a special talk and live demonstration exploring the artistry, history, and cultural significance of this remarkable tool.
Intermediate Sculptural Basketry Workshop
Join artist Rose Tsang in a two day workshop on Intermediate Sculptural Basketry. Students will expand upon foundational basketry skills to construct larger, more complex sculptural forms using rattan reed and mixed materials.
I Speak In Colors: Dellis Frank
See the work of TALA member Dellis Frank at the Los Angeles Makery.
Sashiko Stitching
Join teaching artist Connie Rohman in this three week class.
Participants will explore the textile arts uses of sashiko stitching.
Intermediate Weaving: Intro to Overshot
Learn the principles of overshot and weave your own geometric overshot fabric with Emily Graham in this 2-day workshop!
Elements of Weaving: Fiber
Experiment and explore woven design concepts. with Cameron Taylor-Brown on Schacht Wolf Pup floor looms in a fully equipped textile studio - with an abundance of beautiful yarn choices.
Silk Painting Workshop
Now you can learn how to make beautiful permanent designs on silk fabric with TALA member Beth Abaravich.
Intro to Freeform Machine Embroidery
Artist and LA Tactile Lab co-founder Svetlana Shigroff will show participants how easy it is to change a regular sewing machine into a freeform embroidery beast.
Embroidery Socials
Get ready to stitch, chat, and laugh together! Join us for a rejuvenating morning with Folk Lounge.
Intro to Weaving on a Floor Loom
In this two-day course with Emily Graham, you will weave a twill sampler on a four-shaft floor loom and experiment with color and pattern.
Intro to Quiltmaking
In this 4 session course, artist Malavika Rao invites students into the slow and thoughtful practice of quilting.
Machine Punch Needle Portraiture
Join artist Liv Aanrud for a three-session weekly machine tufting class this summer, designed to introduce students to both the technical foundations and creative possibilities of this versatile textile medium.
Patchwork Mending with Vintage Japanese Fabrics
Come learn about patchwork and visible mending techniques using vintage Japanese textiles provided by BORO BORO!
Intro to Broom Making
Amanda Abdou will guide students through an introduction to Broom Making where everyone will have the opportunity to craft their own custom brooms while exploring the rich history and artistry behind this age-old practice.
Tuft Your Own Mirror
Join artist Liv Aanrud for this class and tuft the world you want to see!
Intermediate Weaving: Intro to Overshot
Learn the principles of overshot and weave your own geometric overshot fabric with Emily Graham in this 2-day workshop!
Silk Painting Workshop
Now you can learn how to make beautiful permanent designs on silk fabric with TALA member Beth Abaravich.
Elements of Weaving: Color
Experiment and explore woven design concepts. with Cameron Taylor-Brown on Schacht Wolf Pup floor looms in a fully equipped textile studio - with an abundance of beautiful yarn choices.
Learn to Weave
Learn the fundamentals of weaving with TALA member Cameron Taylor-Brown as you set up a floor loom, experiment with yarns and basic weaves, and make a scarf, table runner, or wall hanging.
Special Topics in Weaving: Multilayer Cloth
Experiment and explore woven design concepts with Cameron Taylor-Brown on Schacht Wolf Pup floor looms in a fully equipped textile studio - with an abundance of beautiful yarn choices.
Learn to Weave
Learn the fundamentals of weaving with TALA member Cameron Taylor-Brown as you set up a floor loom, experiment with yarns and basic weaves, and make a scarf, table runner, or wall hanging.
Embroider Tea
Create a one of a kind embroidered coin purse and enjoy tea, snacks and good vibes
Intro to Sculptural Basketry
Join artist Rose Tsang in a two day workshop on beginning sculptural basketry.
Artazan Handcraft Market
Explore vibrant exhibits by artisans —from painters and jewelers to chocolatiers and textile artists. With live music, free drawings, workshops in painting and jewelry making, and a welcoming creative community, Artazan is more than a marketplace —it’s a celebration of handcraft.
Porfirio Gutiérrez: Dip, Dye, Discuss
Zapotec-American multidisciplinary textile artist Porfirio Gutiérrez will share the rich cultural history of harvesting and making cochineal dye
Ornament Revival: Archives & Ancestral Tech
Join Litavie Art Gallery for an embroidery social hosted by TALA member Folk Lounge to learn about open archives work, diaspora research and material culture work on the grammar of ornament and patterns.
Keystone Open Studios
Keystone Art Space Open Studios is a unique experience for art lovers and collectors of all levels to engage and connect with emerging and established artists in Los Angeles.
Porfirio Gutiérrez Lecture & Trunk Show
Experience the premiere of Migrating Memories, a 5-minute short film by multidisciplinary Zapotec textile artist Porfirio Gutiérrez
Pattern Play: Design Your Own Table Linens
A Mother’s Day Weekend Screen Printing Workshop with TALA member Carrie Burckle.
Introduction to Tapestry Weaving
Join artist Alexis Zoto for a 2-day workshop for an introduction to hand-weaving on a frame loom.
Topstitch Embroidery on Knits
In this hands-on workshop participants will learn an overview of what the concept of duplicate stitch is and complete a duplicate stitch design on a knit sample provided by Inessa Illes, the teaching artist.
Mending Time with Vintage Japanese Fabrics
BORO BORO’s Chill Mending Time, our casual mending session where you can come patch and mend to your heart’s content! No formal instruction.
Stitching your Story
Join Textile Arts LA Artists and Craft Contemporary in this workshop led by Folk Lounge founder Shagho.
You’ll craft a Hero’s Journey Scroll—inspired by The Epic of Gilgamesh—as a living record of your personal mythology. You’ll archive your own magic through the quiet rituals of drawing and embroidery.
Ornament Revival: Archives & Ancestral Tech
Join Textile Arts LA for an artist talk by member Shagho of Folk Lounge
Susan Unger Gathering & Book Signing
Please join Material Encounters for a lovely day under the orange trees as we share an informal talk and book signing with the extraordinary Susan Unger.
Embroidery Socials
Get ready to stitch, chat, and laugh together! Join us for a rejuvenating morning with Folk Lounge.
ReMemory Landscapes Workshop with Aneesa Shami
Textile collage workshop with artist Aneesa Shami.
LA County Yarn Crawl
This Yarn Crawl is a once-a-year opportunity to spend quality time with fellow yarn-lovers, meet-up with friends, and discover the local yarn shops you’ve always wanted to visit. Spend three days on an adventure through the most creative and inspiring yarn shops in Los Angeles County.
Textile, Architecture, Fashion & Art in LA
Join Yoshiko I. Wada, World Shibori Network Foundation (WSNF), Christina Kim, and Dosa Inc. in honoring Sharon S. Takeda, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) senior curator of Textiles and Costume and Japanese Art. We will relish an intimate, two-day immersive experience into the heart of textile and contemporary architecture.
Connie Rohman Popup Exhibition
TALA member Connie Rohman will be featuring her textile work in a one-day exhibition.
Small works and hand dyed yardage will be available for purchase.
HYMNAL
Band of Vices is pleased to announce HYMNAL, a group exhibition presented in collaboration with Residency Art Gallery. Bringing together four artists working across fiber, abstraction, figuration, and ceramics, the exhibition is rooted in a quiet yet powerful sense of reverence, materiality, and presence.
Elements of Weaving: Pattern
Experiment and explore woven design concepts. with Cameron Taylor-Brown on Schacht Wolf Pup floor looms in a fully equipped textile studio - with an abundance of beautiful yarn choices.
Build a Soft Sculpture Object
Artist Svetlana Shigroff wants to teach you how to make something beautifully strange out of fabric.
Stitch Your Own Sketchbook
Join teaching artist JJ Jorgenson for a cozy, creative Stitch Your Own Sketchbook workshop, where you’ll learn how to bind your very own sketchbook using the beautiful Coptic stitch.
(re)Membering: Textile Society of America Colloquium
The Textile Society of America announces its Spring 2026 Colloquium, “(re)Membering,” to be held at the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, California. The Colloquium will be presented in a hybrid format and will include a keynote address, a plenary presentation, and a panel discussion featuring contemporary artists, scholars, and cultural practitioners.
Open Studios & Art Talk
Art Share L.A. invites you to explore the Ellsworth Artist Residency Program and meet current residents (including fiber artist Kelly Dennis Villalba) during an evening of open studios and artist talks.
Lindsay Preston Zappas: Artist Talk
Join LA Tactile Lab for a conversation with Lindsay Preston Zappas, a Los Angeles based artist, writer and founder and editor-in-chief of CARLA.
Gelatin Printing Inspired by Material Curiosity
Join Textile Arts LA Artists and Craft Contemporary for a vibrant workshop celebrating story telling through gelatin printing on fabric.
Taught by TALA member Connie Rohman.
Material Remembrance
Material Remembrance explores the human desire for storytelling through fiber art, featuring work by Cameron Taylor-Brown and Aneesa Shami Zizzo. Both artists create abstracted imagery referencing historic places and personal memory using textile materials, showing deep commitment to their craft and the mastery of technique that speaks to the breadth of their experiences.
Fabric & Yarn Swap + Makers Social!
Have some unused fabric or yarn taking up space? Or just want to gather with fellow makers? Patchwork is throwing a combination stash swap/makers social — bring what you’re not using, take something you will, and hang for a bit!
Julia Couzens | B E S P O K E O L O G Y
PATRICIA SWEETOW GALLERY is excited to present the dazzling textile works of Julia Couzens.

