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Open Craft Time
Join Craft Contemporary weekly on Fridays throughout the summer for open-ended studio hours focused on using the materials we have on hand to make and to mend.
Embroidery Socials
Join Folk Lounge Wednesdays in Los Angeles for a magnetic evening on the LA River to connect with craft, textiles, embroidery & illustration community.
California Rising: Beauty By Hand
Shop this curated craft fair of beautiful pieces made by skilled craft artisans.
Fabric & Yarn Swap + Makers Social
Patchwork is throwing a combination stash swap/makers social — bring what you’re not using, take something you will, and hang for a bit!
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.
Bowers Museum Quilt Fair
The Bowers Museum Quilt Fair is a vibrant celebration of textile art that brings together stunning handmade quilts, talented artisans, and a welcoming community of craft enthusiasts.
Embroidery Socials
Get ready to stitch, chat, and laugh together! Join us for a rejuvenating morning with Folk Lounge.
Textiles as Monuments Celebration
Celebrate the summer opening of Textiles as Monuments, an exhibition featuring three contemporary artists—Suchitra Mattai, Jagdeep Raina, and Swapnaa Tamhane—who activate textiles as a powerful medium for memory, storytelling, and historical reimagining.
Midsummer Mercantile Market
Celebrate the debut of The Egg & The Eye Shop during Craft Contemporary's first midsummer mercantile market.
Discover original designs, vintage finds, textiles, jewelry, apparel, and handcrafted goods from local vendors.
Handwork: Book Signing & Celebration
Please join Craft in America celebrating the launch of our newest publication, Handwork: Handcrafted Objects that Made America; a visually stunning, deeply inspiring celebration of America’s spirit through ordinary, surprising, and overlooked handcrafted objects spanning more than 250 years.
Bendix Art Night
The Bendix Building in DTLA comes alive with open studios and exhibitions.
Mary Little’s studio will be one of them.
Talk: Cheongsam at Bakers Bench
Wear your favorite cheongsam, qipao, or other traditional Chinese garment for a gathering at Bakers Bench in Chinatown featuring a lecture about LACMA’s exhibit Fashioning Chinese Women
Fault Lines Fiber Art: Sip & Stitch
Enjoy a glass of wine and learn a new hobby at Tabula Rasa.
Weaving Together with Craft Contemporary at LA Metro
Add to our weaving wall, leave a message on our wishing tree, and try your hand at weaving, with your very own loom to take home.
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.
Bead Society Pop Up
Meet artists, vendors and people who just enjoy making beautiful creations! Bead artists, world textile collectors and vendors, beadweaving demonstrations.
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.
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.
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.