New York Textile Month, New York, NY (2026)

09/16/2026

Textile Stories: The Art of Block Printing
In person / Workshop / Multiple Techniques

Friday, September 25, 2026
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

The Tatter Textile Library
505 Carroll Street Brooklyn, New York

Spend an evening with Sooteē and TATTER exploring the enduring practice of block printing. This centuries-old technique carries with it a deep legacy of skill, innovation, and cultural knowledge, sustained by generations of artisans and the talented craftspeople who continue to practice and evolve the tradition today.

Participants are invited to experiment with a variety of blocks, colors, and patterns, taking inspiration from Sooteē’s beautifully designed textiles and the possibilities of the medium. Through hands-on exploration, discover the expressive potential of block printing and leave with your own unique paper block-print sample. Light refreshments will be served.

Alongside the block-printing experience, a selection of Sooteē’s hand block printed and handwoven textiles will be on view, offering insight into the making and processes behind each piece. The display explores how time-honored textile traditions can find new expression through contemporary patterns, compositions, and objects for the home, while celebrating the skill and cultural knowledge of the artisans who continue to carry these practices forward.

Learn more: https://www.textilemonth.nyc/calendar-2026/textile-stories

BLUE: Tatter Textile Library

09/16/2026

Tour de Tools. Hacking the weaving tools
Online / Open Studio / Weaving

Friday, September 25, 2026
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Tour de Tool takes viewers on a live visit to the Textile Department of Pallas University of Applied Sciences, where DIY modifications of weaving tools developed and used in teaching will be showcased together with examples of student work. The department's lecturers will introduce their approach to teaching weaving: following courses in theory and traditional weaving techniques, students take a course dedicated to challenging conventions and breaking established rules. They then have the freedom to define the conceptual starting point and direction of their own weaving projects.

Learn more: https://www.textilemonth.nyc/calendar-2026/tour-de-tools-hacking-the-weaving-tools

Tekstiiliosakond. Kõrgem Kunstikool Pallas

09/16/2026

From Farm to Fabric: Indigo Cultivation in the Lowcountry
Online / Workshop / Textile Industry

Thursday, September 24, 2026 - Friday, September 25, 2026

Join Heather Powers, President of the International Center for Indigo Culture and SCAD alumna (Fibers BFA, 1998), and Professor Jessica Smith as they guide Fibers students through cultivating and processing Indigofera suffruticosa at the BACK40, SCAD's sustainable urban farm.

This virtual program is designed to educate consumers, artists, and farmers about the importance of this irreplaceable regional agricultural and cultural resource. It explores indigo's history in the Lowcountry, the coastal region from north of Charleston, South Carolina, through Savannah, Georgia, to Jacksonville, Florida. Once a major colonial cash crop and source of the region's iconic deep blue dye, indigo is now being revived by Gullah Geechee farmers and artisans to preserve cultural heritage, sustain family lands, and produce natural, non-toxic dyes.

Over two days, the SCAD Fibers department and Heather Powers demonstrate cultivating and processing indigo leaves into dyestuff, covering harvest, fermentation, filtration, drying, and storage.

Day One - Thursday, September 24, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM

Examines indigo's significance as both cash crop and art form, including tools and methods used by enslaved people, many from West African indigo-dyeing traditions, and how contemporary artists and farmers carry the practice forward today. As students harvest plants, Heather will demonstrate a fresh-leaf vat using freshly picked leaves.

Day Two - Friday, September 25, 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM

Covers pigment extraction, an all-day process open to tune in and out of, culminating in filtration of the extracted indigo for drying and storage.

All stages will be recorded and shared with registered participants afterward.

Learn more here: https://www.textilemonth.nyc/calendar-2026/from-farm-to-fabric-indigo-cultivation

SCAD Fibers department

09/15/2026

Contemporary @ Heirloom presents Shradha Kochhar: Elongating Time
In person / Exhibition / Knitting

Thursday, September 24, 2026
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Heirloom
81 Grand StreetBrooklyn, New York

For her exhibition, Elongating Time, Shradha Kochhar’s contemporary textiles will be presented in dialogue with antique textiles from the gallery’s collection, drawing connections across material, handwork and generations of textile-making. She will be present for a Q&A at the opening reception.

Learn more: https://www.textilemonth.nyc/calendar-2026/contemporary-heirloom-presents-shradha-kochhar

Heirloom

09/14/2026

Breathing Patterns
In person/ Exhibition / Embroidery

Thursday, September 24, 2026
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Artifact Projects
155 Suffolk Street New York, New York

Breathing Patterns is an exhibition of hand-embroidered wall works and accompanying scent compositions that explore geometry as a living, embodied system. Created through slow, repetitive hand needlework, the embroidered forms draw on geometric patterning as a language of structure, care, and endurance. Each stitch accumulates time, marking the quiet labor of the hand while transforming rigid systems into intimate, tactile surfaces.

The geometric patterns suggest order and repetition, yet they are never mechanical. Slight irregularities—inevitable in handwork—introduce breath, vulnerability, and presence. These deviations become central to the work, emphasizing the body behind the pattern and the feminist lineage of needlework as both domestic labor and creative resistance.

Scent functions as an invisible counterpart to the stitch. Developed in dialogue with the embroidered forms, the fragrances move through space as thread moves through cloth—activating memory, emotion, and physical awareness. Rather than illustrating the visual works, scent extends them, allowing the patterns to be felt as atmosphere and duration.

Together, embroidery and fragrance invite a slower mode of attention. Breathing Patterns proposes making and sensing as acts of care, where repetition becomes meditative and geometry becomes intimate—measured not only by the eye, but by the body in time and breath.

Learn more: https://www.textilemonth.nyc/calendar-2026/breathing-patterns

09/14/2026

Soil to Surface
In person / Exhibition / Dyeing

On View: September 24 - November 1
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 24, 2026
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Art and Design Gallery, Fashion Institute of Technology
300 7th Avenue New York, New York,

Soil to Surface highlights the creations of small-scale women farmers, women’s cooperatives, and internationally recognized designers from Türkiye, alongside the work of School of Art and Design students, faculty, and alumni at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT). Proposing an alternative framework where farmers, craftspeople, and designers operate on equal ground, the exhibition sees the FIT community actively reimagining these materials for contemporary design through technical experimentation and innovative thinking.

Agricultural waste and local textile materials are repositioned in a contemporary context, allowing multiple narratives to emerge across time and geographies, while creating new paths for creative businesses to be local, sustainable, and value-driven.
Central to this process are women farmers and women’s cooperatives in Türkiye, whose knowledge, labor, creativity, and lived experience have transformed agricultural byproducts into new material possibilities. Their relationship with the land has been cultivated across generations. Working with pomegranate peels, walnut husks, nettle leaves, onion skins, bay leaves, and barley straw, they transform these materials into plant-based dyes, paperlike surfaces, and handcrafted embellishments. By integrating agricultural production with artistic practice, Soil to Surface challenges conventional hierarchies and suggests a more inclusive and socially just model for creative collaboration.

Learn more: https://www.textilemonth.nyc/calendar-2026/soil-to-surface

09/14/2026

Talking Textile Conference: Success Stories
Online/ Talk / Multiple Techniques

Sunday, September 27, 2026
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

OUR ANNUAL TALKING TEXTILES WEBINAR
Moderated by Philip Fimmano & Li Edelkoort

Recent graduates have harnessed their creativity to take on the design and art worlds, quickly establishing their independent practices as integral parts of the cultural community. Fibre and fabrics therefore become important tools to transform society through conscious thinking, aesthetic activism and ecological awareness. As the industry’s young leaders, their hopeful quest is human-centred, reaching new audiences through touch and tactility, appealing to the senses at a time when we need it most. Success stories that illustrate the foundational value of design education and the true power of textiles.

Speakers:
Shradha Kochhar
Mitch Frank .co
Sabrina Stadlober
Sugandha Gupta .in.here
Aradhita Parasrampuria .bio
Kamilla Kuszon
Astrid Brondgaard Jensen
Carolyn Smith .smith_

We will also be announcing the winner of Dorothy Waxman International Textile Design Prize 2026!

The webinar is free and open to all. Register on our website!
Mohawk Group

Learn more: https://www.textilemonth.nyc/calendar-2026/talking-textile-conference

09/13/2026

Rethinking Textiles in an Age of Waste
Online/ Talk / Dyeing

Wednesday, September 23, 2026
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Rethinking Textiles in an Age of Waste: A Study of Japanese Traditional and Contemporary Textiles, based on a year of field research in Japan.
This talk presents research and findings from Larissa Zemke's Master's thesis, Rethinking Textiles in an Age of Waste: A Study of Japanese Traditional and Contemporary Textiles, developed through a year of field research in Japan (2019–2020). Using a research-creation methodology, the project examines how traditional Japanese textile practices and philosophies offer lessons for textile sustainability today, with a focus on translating those insights into the activewear industry.

Drawing on archival research, interviews with artisans, and hands-on material experimentation, the talk explores how Japan's textile heritage, from bast fiber cultivation to traditional dye and weaving practices, informs more circular, less wasteful approaches to material design. Larissa shares how these findings shaped tangible design proposals, illustrating how traditional knowledge can inform contemporary innovation in fast-moving, high-waste sectors like activewear.

Attendees will gain insight into Japan's textile traditions as a living case study for sustainability, practical frameworks for applying historical practices to modern material challenges, and a window into research-creation as a methodology bridging academic research and design practice.

This talk is ideal for designers, brands, and researchers seeking grounded, culturally rich approaches to rethinking material use and waste in the fashion industry.

Learn more: https://www.textilemonth.nyc/calendar-2026/rethinking-textiles

09/13/2026

Textiles Close Up: Virtual Roundtable - The Dressed Body & Wearable Innovations
Online/ Talk / Textile Industry

Wednesday, September 23, 2026
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Zoom

This September, the Textile Society of America invites you to join a live virtual roundtable that brings together curators, scholars, artists, and cultural practitioners from across Central New York for an engaging exploration of textiles, collections, and contemporary research.

Taking place on September 23, 2026 this 90-minute online program expands upon the themes explored during Textiles Close Up: The Dressed Body & Wearable Innovations in-person event in June, while welcoming a broader audience from around the world. Participation in the June program is not required.

During the September online session, each presenter will give a brief presentation highlighting objects, collections, or site-specific practices from their institution. A moderated discussion led by TSA Board Member Alexa Griffith Winton will follow, inviting participants to reflect on how textiles mediate identity, the impact of materials and technologies on clothing and adornment, and the responsibilities of institutions in interpreting living cultural traditions.

Learn more: https://www.textilemonth.nyc/calendar-2026/textiles-close-up

Textile Society

09/12/2026

Negotiated Skin
In person / Exhibition / Biomaterial

Sunday, September 20, 2026 - Tuesday, September 22, 2026

Opening Reception: Sunday, September 20
6:00–9:00 PM

Closing Walkthrough / Artist Talk: Tuesday, September 22
6:30 PM – 7:30 PM

Gallery 456
456 BroadwayNew York, New York, 10013

Negotiated Skin is an immersive, interdisciplinary solo exhibition by New York-based artist Freda Xinyue Xia, presented at Gallery 456, the visual arts exhibition space of the Chinese American Arts Council. Bringing together wearable sculpture, suspended fiber works, mineral-pigment paintings, and Chinese paintings, the exhibition creates an evolving environment in which soft sculptural forms and paintings enter into dialogue across body, material, time and space.

For this exhibition, Xia develops translucent, membrane-like forms through layering, suspension, collapse, and visible acts of repair. Instead of depicting the body directly, these works register its presence, moving between garment, sculpture, and installation. Alongside them, mineral-pigment paintings of heads glimpsed in New York City subway spaces offer a figurative counterpoint, tracing bodies in motion, proximity, and separation.

Across these media, Negotiated Skin explores boundaries between intimacy and exposure, abstraction and figuration, material fragility, and shared presence. Skin emerges not as a fixed border, but as a changing surface shaped by pressure, contact, and repair. Visitors are invited to move through the installation and encounter the work through proximity, movement, and perception.

Learn more: https://www.textilemonth.nyc/calendar-2026/negotiated-skin

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