Welcome to the TextileX resource guide—a growing effort created to map out and connect the vibrant textile community and resources in the Portland metro area and beyond. The foundation of this guide was built from the diversity of organizations that participate in the Portland TextileX Month festival every October.
Development of and funding for this guide have been provided by Textile Hive with additional funding from a RACC catalyst grant in 2019.
We encourage you to contribute additional resources through this form and consider becoming a member of TextileX to help further develop this resource guide as well as Portland TextileX Month.
Studios
Bea Fields
Bea Fields is a sewist who emigrated as a child with her family from Slovakia. She has a small archive of textiles, photographs, ceramics and other heirlooms she’s saved from her childhood and family members. Bea has shared these special items along with the history and culture of Slovakia in an educational workshop. In addition to celebrating her culture through cooking, baking and crafting, Bea also enjoys working in different art mediums by creating clothing, jewelry, bags and handmade gifts.
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ElizaBeth Rohloff
I’m ElizaBeth, a clothing and hat designer based in Portland, Oregon. I teach to bring my love of fashion design to others. I create beautiful handmade pieces because it is my gift to share with others. In my work, Sustainability is foremost. I use high quality natural fibers such as wool, bamboo, linen, silk, and cotton. Since the 1980’s my work has germinated and been 100% locally produced in the green culture of Portland,Oregon. Not only have I predated the sustainable movement but this approach also means my hats and bags display an array of texture, color and sustainable fabrics when possible. My line resonates with contemporary style and a hint of vintage sass. Clothing and accessories are designed with an urban attitude that is street smart and unisex, using natural fibers such as wool, linen, silk, cotton and hemp. With over 30 years of clothing design and construction, I have a wealth of knowledge making clothing.
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Judilee Fitzhugh
Judilee Fitzhugh is a textile artisan who specializes in natural plant dyes and couture sewing. A tour of duty in Japan with the U.S. Navy led to a profound Japanese influence and a lifelong affection for indigo and plant fibers. She gained her Certificate in Craft at the Oregon College of Art and Craft in 2002, and taught in the BFA and Studio School programs until the school’s closure in 2019. Her finely crafted work combines natural objects with vintage fabric remnants, hand weaving, and surface design to portray a single moment in history.
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Limei Lai
Limei Lai enjoys working with paint, fabric and clay. She is curious about how memories and experience work with objects to create cultural value and aesthetic value in spaces, thus addressing and commenting past and present to encourage good changes. Her interactive community engagement installation focuses on creating spaces and voices for intergenerational communication. Art as an experience not only visually critiques, questions, reflects, but also celebrates. Limei is the artist member at Blackfish Gallery. She was the founder and curator of Playground Gallery and the vice-president of Oregon Chinese Artist Association. Her works were shown in Local 14 Art Show, The Arts Center at Corvallis, Ashland Fiber Arts Collective, Newport Visual Arts Center, Paragon Gallery, Lansu Garden, The Place, PNCA, Red E Cafe Gallery, Playground Gallery. Her murals were in north Portland and Chinatown Portland.
Businesses
Parker Simonne Designs. Inc.
parker + simonne designs is a woman-owned small batch clothing line modernized kimonos, tops and tunics, inspired by my dreams.
Schools
Portland State University Textile Arts Program
The Textile Arts program provides a critical investigation of clothing and textiles with a focus on craft, sustainability, and community engagement. Students learn techniques in weaving, surface design, and sewn construction towards fashion, costume, and contemporary art.
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The Reprintery
The Reprintery emerged from a creative partnership between friends Michelle Freedman and Charlotte Flory. We combine the artistry of traditional printmaking with the craftsmanship of quilting and the sustainability of repurposing and sewing upcycled textiles. By blending our diverse backgrounds in design and art, we explore the intersection of creativity, innovation, and collaboration. Through the reimagining of discarded fabrics—whether through print, deconstruction, or the art of quilting—we breathe new life into materials that would otherwise go to waste. In doing so, The Reprintery challenges the boundaries between art and design, quilting and printmaking, fine art and fiber art.
Our work has been featured in Uppercase Magazine and showcased at Portland Textile Month and Well Well Projects. It’s been celebrated for its creativity, joyful energy, and optimism about what the future holds.
As we continue to explore new ways to express our vision and expand our collaborations, we also share our knowledge and passion through lectures and workshops. We are committed to inspiring and empowering others in the creative community, spreading the joy of our craft far and wide.
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Businesses
Wrenbird Arts
Hi there! Thanks for stopping by wrenbirdarts! I'm Erin Eggenburg, sometimes called "wrenbird", hence the name of my business. I have always been "crafty" and in 2011, I dabbled my way over to hand embroidery, and fell deeply in love with it. I decided to add a few hankies to what was then my fabric wallet shop on Etsy, and the wallets soon became a thing of the past. For the next few years, I would go on to hand embroider more than 15,000 hankies! Then in 2018, while working at a local creative reuse non-profit, I found a way to blend embroidery and upcycling/reuse, called visible mending. I was able to salvage my favorite pair of jeans with a few patches and some embroidery. As I shared my projects locally and on social media, there was an enormous positive response. I began teaching mending workshops and created my own mending and embroidery patterns. When COVID hit, I took my workshops online, and started Mending Club for fellow stitchers looking to connect during a very stressful and scary time. Mending Club has taken a different form, but still meets online once a month, and continues to grow in membership today. Wrenbirdarts, like many handmade businesses started out on Etsy, and though wrenbirdarts.com has so many more resources, I continue to maintain a shop on Etsy for mending and embroidery patterns and my book. If you'd like to read the reviews from my customers, please click here. Every month, I donate to various local and national non-profits in support of social justice, civil and human rights. I am an ardent supporter of reproductive rights, BIPOC and LGBTQI rights for equality. My book, The Mending Directory, was released in November of 2021. It's a book of 52 mending patterns that includes detailed instructions, and some mending transfer designs too! Order a copy here or from your local bookstore! I've lived in lots of different places in the United States over the years. About 10 years ago, I moved to the Pacific Northwest, and it felt like home. I currently live in Portland, Oregon with my adorable cats, and sweet partner. When I'm not teaching workshops, or working on a mending project, you'll find me attending local events, gardening, thrift shopping or playing pinball.