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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.
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.
Art in Nature Exhibition Openings and Annual Fundraiser
Taft Gardens & Nature Preserve is thrilled to invite our Central Coast community to the 6th Annual Art in Nature Exhibition Openings and Annual Fundraiser. Our residency program provides creative professionals a unique opportunity to develop new work within the natural beauty of Ojai’s "secret garden."
Embroidery Socials
Get ready to stitch, chat, and laugh together! Join us for a rejuvenating morning with Folk Lounge.
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.
Fiber Fest San Diego
Join us at San Diego Craft Collective for Fiber Fest—a vibrant celebration of natural textiles and sustainability, bringing together fiber artists, artisans, sustainability advocates, and local farmers.
Porfirio Gutiérrez Lecture & Trunk Show
Experience the premiere of Migrating Memories, a 5-minute short film by multidisciplinary Zapotec textile artist Porfirio Gutiérrez
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.
Fiber Arts Fiesta 2026
Come celebrate traditional and modern textile crafts with workshops, demos, artisan displays, a marketplace, and community fun!
The Fiber Arts Fiesta is a celebration of traditional and contemporary fiber arts, offering a unique opportunity for participants and visitors to engage with various textile-related crafts
Gee’s Bend Quilting Experiences
Three separate one-day, in-person quilting experiences led by Mary Ann Pettway and China Pettway of the Gee’s Bend Quilting Collective. You spend the day sewing in shared space with the artists.
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.
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.
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.
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!
Blooming Threads, Soviet Flower Symbolism In Cross Stitch
TALA member Folk Lounge is presenting a cross stitch workshop during Craftcation, a 5-day conference for creatives held in Ventura.
Linen And Lamplight: The Secret Lives of Slavic Needlework
TALA member Folk Lounge is presenting a Slavic Needlework workshop during Craftcation, a 5-day conference for creatives held in Ventura.
TALA Textile Slam!
What is TEXTILE SLAM? A relaxed, social gathering for makers, collectors, and the curious featuring short artist talks with food and drinks.
Embroidery Social
Get ready to stitch, chat, and laugh together! Join us for a rejuvenating morning with Folk Lounge.
Textile Arts LA Material Swap
Textile Arts LA and member Liberty Worth are hosting our next MATERIAL SWAP!
Embroidery Social
Get ready to stitch, chat, and laugh together! Join us for a rejuvenating morning with Folk Lounge.
START UP ART FAIR
For 3 days, 150 independent artists take over the Kinney Hotel, turning every room into a one-of-a-kind art experience!
Under Pressure: Loretta Bozung & Emberly Modine
Under Pressure is dual exhibition that brings together the sculptural fiber works of Loretta Bozung and the flowing paintings of Emberly Modine to embody the resilience and power found at the intersection of survival and adaptation.
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.
Kevan Hall | Journey to Japan
Join Japan House for a special evening showcasing “Journey to Japan,” the new collection by award-winning American fashion designer Kevan Hall. For his latest designs, he sought inspiration in the quiet studios of Japanese master artisans
Embroidery Social
Get ready to stitch, chat, and laugh together!
A Morning of Creative Connection and Cultural Celebration
SOCAL FIBER FAIR
SoCal Fiber Fair is an event for knitters, crocheters, weavers, embroiderers, and yarn enthusiasts across California to come together for a weekend of fun, friendship, and (of course) lots and lots of fiber!
Pasadena Bead & Design Show
Shop and buy direct from artisans and tradespeople at excellent prices --beads, art clothing, jewelry, gemstones, textiles, findings, embellishments.
Textiles of the World Sale
Nangokudou Antiques is showcasing and selling textiles at MorYork Gallery.
There will be a few hundred pieces from all over the world, with prices ranging from a few dollars to a few thousand dollars. They range in date from antique to modern and stand alone panels/embroideries to bolts/yardage of material.
Memory Walk as Practice with Amanda Maciel Antunes
Bring an object or a clothing item that matters to you and join exhibiting artist Amanda Maciel Antunes for a slow, accessible walk around Craft Contemporary that encourages connection during these challenging times.
LA Tactile Lab Open House
Discover LA Tactile Lab: Your New Home for Fiber Arts and Material Exploration!
LA Tactile Lab will be having an Open House where people can come check out the space, try a few tools at the demo stations, and discuss the upcoming programming with co-founders Emily Silver and Svetlana Shigroff, and workshop faculty.
The Evolving Cotton Story
Join SoCal Fibershed at Eden Forest Collective in Fillmore, CA, for a farm tour, cotton talk, and lunch.
ARTISANS & FRIENDS Boutique
Come join a gathering of eight friends who are collectors & creators to show, sell or trade creations and items with each other and our guests. We convene in Judy’s back yard. Judy's home is in historic Country Club Park in Mid City LA, near Arlington & Olympic with easy free street parking so come & bring your friends!