We had such a good time last year, we’re setting up shop again at the Renegade Craft Fair, come see us!
Saturday and Sunday May 18-19, 11am- 6pm
Andersonville: Clark St. between W. Bryn Mawr Ave. + W. Edgewater Ave
Come on over for a weekend-long open studio ~ we’ll have our fresh new projects available for perusal and purchase, we’ll be doing weaving demos and studio tours, we’ll be looking for voluteers to help treadle our People-Powered Fiber Shredder and, very excitingly, Chicago Fair Trade will be setting up a giant clothing swap in the building. (The clothing swap is a ticketed event, TWM open studio is open to all. Visit one, visit both, it’s up to you) Come by and say hi, we’d be delighted to see you.
Saturday April 13, 12-5
Sunday April 14, 12-5
1801 North Spaulding, Chicago IL
Come on back through the parking lot to the loading dock to find TWM
Come on out to The Wayback gallery at the Chicago Weaving School to celebrate the release of Wool Work, a book by Emily Winter, TWM co-founder and director, documenting a segment of the domestic wool supply chain, starting with the 2019 Navajo Nation Wool Buy.
Every summer from 2012-2019, a group of commercial wool-buyers converged on the Navajo Nation to purchase raw wool from Diné producers. The wool was shipped to Ohio for sorting then onto South Carolina for scouring. In the process, the wool transformed from a material with a visible origin & history into a generic commodity dispersed into the global market. Wool Work makes visible some of the places, people and processes that constitute this segment of the wool supply chain--it's an exercise in close looking, in finding value in the mundane and in seeking traces of history, labor and landscape in the textiles we make and live with.
Saturday February 17, 3-7pm
The Wayback at the Chicago Weaving School
4201 West Irving Park Rd, Chicago IL
Books will be available for purchase
Join us for our 8th annual holiday sale, featuring goods from TWM, 1733 and the Passementerie Mill. We’ll have old favorites, new friends, and some weirdo one-of-a-kinders available for sale. Come on out. It’s always a good time.
2153 West North Avenue Chicago IL
Thursday December 14, 5-8
Friday December 15, 5-8
Saturday December 16, 11-7
Sunday December 17, 11-7
Come join us for an open studio— it’s been a minute since we had one! We’ll be doing some weaving demos and will have a whole bunch of new beautiful textiles (haven’t even made it to the website yet!) available for purchase (including some pieces from our fresh collaboration with Offcut!) for those of you interested in getting a jump on your holiday shopping.
1801 North Spaulding Chicago IL
Sunday November 19, 1-5
Come through the parking lot to the loading dock at the back of the building and come on into the studio
While you’re out and about, check out some of our textile compatriots who are also hosting open houses this weekend:
Apparel Industry Board Inc Nov 18, Saturday, 10-2pm
The Chicago Weaving School Nov 18, Saturday, 3-7pm
The Weaving Mill Nov 19, Sunday, 1-5pm
Passementerie Mill Nov 19, Sunday, 1-5pm
LMRM Nov 19, Sunday, 2-6pm
We’ve been working for the last few months on a very fun collaboration with Offcut Shop, a project we’ve long admired for their sprightly and clever reanimation of wood scraps.
It’s a match made in heaven, really: textile scraps meet wood offcuts, great design results!
Come on out and see the fruits of our collaboration on Friday October 20, 6-9, at the Offcut showroom, 3951 West Belden.
Open showroom hours on Saturday 10/21 as well
We’re setting up shop at the Renegade Craft Fair, come see us!
Saturday and Sunday Sept 9-10, 11-7
Division Street (Wicker Park), between Damen & Ashland
Come on out for our third annual SAMPLE SALE EXTRAVAGANZA
We’ll have remnants, samples, scraps, fabric-by-the-yard, odds & ends. In other words: Pure Potential. Sunny day: we’ll be in the parking lot. Rainy day: we’ll be in the building. Either way, it promises to be a good time.
Sunday August 6, 10-2
1801 North Spaulding
We’re setting up shop at the Renegade Craft Fair, come see us!
Saturday and Sunday May 20-21, 11am- 6pm
Andersonville: Clark St. between W. Bryn Mawr Ave. + W. Edgewater Ave
We’re in Booth 39, on the east side of Clark between Hollywood and Edgewater. Come say hi on your way to Gethsemane :)
Come join us for an open studio— it’s been a minute since we had one! Come celebrate the end of tax season. JK. Just come on out and appreciate some textiles!
We’ll be doing studio tours, weaving demos, sharing some fresh new projects and textiles, sharing seeds from our seed library, and test-driving our People-Powered Fiber Shredder.
1801 North Spaulding Chicago IL
Sunday April 16, 12-4
Come through the parking lot to the loading dock at the back of the building
Join us for our 7th annual holiday sale, featuring goods from TWM, 1733 and the Passementerie Mill. We’ll have old favorites, new friends, and some weirdo one-of-a-kinders available for sale. Come on out. It’s always a good time.
2153 West North Avenue Chicago IL
Thursday December 15, 5-8
Friday December 16, 5-8
Saturday December 17, 11-6
Sunday December 18, 11-6
Come out to Compound Yellow on Saturday 12/3 for a very nice holiday market. We’ll be bringing our favorite textiles and looking forward to a very nice day with many other great makers and artists.
Saturday December 3, 11-5
244 Lake Street, Oak Park IL
Come visit TWM as part of Chicago Textile Week’s Open Studio Tours: see our looms in action, peruse our products, visit our Seed Library to select some natural dye and fiber seeds for next year’s planting. We’ll be cleaning the joint up in anticipation of your visit and bringing our people-powered fiber shredder out for a ride.
Make a day of it and visit the other excellent studios that are open around the city that day: Bryana Bibbs, Bridgeport Art Center / Melissa Leandro, Humboldt Park / Robert Paige, Hyde Park Art Center / Hope Wang and LMRM, Mana Contemporary, Pilsen / Aubrey Pittman-Heglund, Mana Contemporary, Pilsen / Passementerie Mill, Belmont Cragin
It’s time for our second annual parking lot sample sale.
Come out on Sunday August 7, 10-2 for UNBEATABLE deals, UNHOLY discounts, INIMITABLE offerings.
We’ll have remnants, samples & scraps as well as 7% off regularly-priced TWM goods (the birthday celebration continues!). And…. We’ll be opening up our yardage rack and selling fabric off the roll! We’ve never done this before. You won’t want to miss it.
Come early, stay late.
1801 North Spaulding Ave
Join us Sunday July 31 to celebrate W.A.R.P. resident Xingyi Zhao!
We’ve been delighted to have Xingyi with us this summer working on a variety of projects utilizing studio scrap material of all shapes and sizes. Come see the studio experiments that Xingyi has been up to while with us.
Sunday July 31, 3-5
1801 North Spaulding Ave (come through the parking lot to the loading dock door and come on in!)
We’re turning 7! Join us for an afternoon of Fun, Excitement, Snacks and Good Cheer.
Featuring live performances by
BCMC (Bill Mackay and Cooper Crain)
DJ Sets from Jamie Hayes (Production Mode) & Rob Sevier (Numero Group)
Homemade pie
Games of skill and chance
and….
the UNVEILING of our people-powered fiber shredder!!!
An event you won’t want to miss, to be sure.
$10 suggested donation
We’ll be back at the Palmer Square Art Fair this summer with tons of other great vendors. Come say ‘hey’! We’ll have textiles of all types, samples, one-of-a-kinders and some fresh new projects… Make it a Weaving Mill Weekend and come to our Birthday party the next day!
Join us for an open studio at TWM to celebrate World Fair Trade Day. We are but one of several sites hosting open studios as part of Chicago Fair Trade’s day of programs.
We’ll be doing studio tours, weaving demos and sharing some fresh new projects and textiles.
Come visit our dye garden! And pick up some seeds for yours…
1801 North Spaulding (come through the parking lot to the loading dock at the back of the building)
Masks required in Westtown Center/The Weaving Mill: thanks for your cooperation!
Come say ‘hey’ on Saturday May 7, we’ll have textiles of many makes and models.
Stellar lineup of vendors and friends!
If it’s raining, the Thing will be rescheduled for Saturday May 28.
Join us Saturday April 2 for the opening of the second and final installation of COTTON : RAW MATERIAL & PRECIOUS METAPHOR, the show and publication documenting our 2020 W.A.R.P. cycle: a remote, mail-based material prompt revolving around a large amount of partially-processed cotton fluff donated to us in January of 2020.
Opening reception: Saturday April 2, 3-6pm
The Wayback at the Chicago Weaving School
4201 West Irving Park Rd Chicago IL
Gallery hours by appointment
Featuring contributions from:
Bryana Bibbs / Jerry Bleem / Sasha deKoninck / Muriel Condon / Jaya Griscom / Kim Hall / Erika Hanson / Sara Havekotte / Crystal Heiden / Lily Homer / Johanna Houska / Eva Joly / Deirdre Colgan Jones / Millicent Kennedy / Riley Kleve / Ashley May / Dori Miller / Suzanne Morgan / Catherine Reinhart / Megan Rothstein / Soyoung Shin / Gwen Smuda / Fereshteh Toosi / Charlie Vinz / Katie Vota / Ursula Wagner
Featuring goods from TWM, 1733, Restoration Yarns and P.K. Dickman Studios
2153 West North Avenue Chicago IL
Opening Friday December 17 5-9
Saturday December 18 11-6
Sunday December 19 11-6
Masks Required, thank you very much
Join us Thursday October 28 for an open studio celebrating Abena Motaboli's time as Westtown Artist in Residence. For the last six weeks, Abena has been drawing, harvesting, pressing, dyeing, papermaking with the contents of our parking lot garden and all throughout, sharing her process and practice with members of the W.E.F.T. program.
We'll also be setting up a seed-sorting station during the Open Studio so if you would like to come by and collect some seeds for your garden, come on through (Selections include: Japanese indigo, madder root, coreopsis, marigolds, Hungarian Black Broomcorn, Celosia, Love-in-a-Puff, red foliated cotton)
Thursday October 28
6-8 pm
1801 North Spaulding Ave
Join The Weaving Mill, 1733, and Edward Varndell for our annual holiday sale, December 6-15
Opening party! Friday December 6 / 5-9pm
2153 West North Avenue
Emily Winter will discuss her recent research into domestic wool supply chains, following Navajo-raised wool in its transformation from raw material to the stuff of craft. Starting with its entry to the supply chain at the annual Navajo Nation Wool Buy, through grading, scouring, spinning, and weaving, this project opens up the typically-opaque steps of the supply chain through site visits and interviews. This fieldwork is part of the larger project and ethos of The Weaving Mill, in which consideration of the material, social, and historical contexts that shape the work and operations of the studio is a fundamental piece of the practice itself.
Thursday December 5 / 6-8pm
Graham Foundation / 4 West Burton Place
Join us at the Graham Foundation for a Family Macro Weaving Workshop, as part of the current exhibition, Tatiana Bilbao Estudio: Unraveling Modern Living.
Twisting recycled fabrics into giant yarns, we will create a macro-weaving, using our bodies to create a multi-person-human-loom, transforming weaving into a participatory game that zooms in on the over-under of woven cloth. This workshop is recommended for children 5 and older.
Click here for the interest form
Saturday November 16 / 10am-12pm
Graham Foundation / 4 West Burton Place
Saturday, October 12, 2019 | 10am-5pm
Benefit Street, between Waterman & Hopkins Streets, Providence RI
Join us to swap, mend, and learn at an evening with Elizabeth L. Cline, author of the new book The Conscious Closet. From clothing repair, to textile recycling, to ethically made new clothing, she'll talk about the tools you need to build your own conscious closet.
Q&A with Elizabeth Cline about her new book, and tactics anyone can use to build their own conscious closet
Copies of The Conscious Closet available for purchase
Show-and-tell from the Weaving Mill about the mechanics of textile production
Clothing swap: bring your old stuff, take some new stuff, or both! (Please try tp arrive by 7 PM if bringing donations.)
On-site mending provided by the ISU Fixit Friday team, coming up from Bloomington/Normal to offer FREE basic repairs to your loved but damaged clothing items
Looping video of eco-fashion activist Isabel Varela's 12- minute documentary Fashion Addict
Tickets (which include a free glass of wine or fizzy water) are $10 thought Sept 17, $12 thereafter online, $15 at the door. Parking: street parking, plus limited parking is available in the center parking lot.
The final Randolph Street Market of the year is here ~ we'll have new WEFT totes galore, throw blankets, as well as fresh wool blankets.
September 28-29, 10-5
1341 West Randolph, Chicago IL
Mark your calendars- the Weaving Mill is throwing a birthday party for our Davis and Furber pin warper, who is turning 100 years old this year. Born in 1919 in North Andover, Massachusetts, she is the wheel that keeps the warps wound. The party is the kickoff for the inaugural Chicago Textile Week.
Sunday September 22, 2-6pm
The Weaving Mill
1801 North Spaulding Ave
Chicago IL
