Date/Time
Date(s) - 07/18/2026
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Location
The Fabric Workshop and Museum
Categories
Learn to weave a colorful potholder, or try your hand at weaving on a floor loom with Philadelphia-based artist Lena Kolb; discover how artists make cloth through contemporary approaches.
Work with yarns, colors, and textures to create a mini tapestry using recycled fabrics and yarns that you can take home. Do this and more at Community Weaving Day hosted by The Fabric Workshop and Museum. No experience is needed.
The workshop will be part of the opening of the exhibit You Stretched Diagonally Across It: Contemporary Tapestry, featuring 25 artists. Organized by Mexico-based curator Su Wu, the show is inspired by Jewish writer Franz Kafka (1883-1924), who imagines his father’s presence woven across a world map. According to promotional material, it will present “works that test the boundaries between art and craft, perception and tactility, and tradition and improvisation.” The exhibit will be on view through Sunday, January 3, 2027. All weaving workshop materials will be provided on a first-come basis.
Free, but a $10 donation is encouraged. No registration required; 1 p.m. EST to 3 p.m. EST. The Fabric Workshop and Museum (2nd & 8th floor galleries), 1214 Arch St. fabricworkshopandmuseum.org.