If you have visited the Origins and Legacies Gallery by Textile Hive this Portland TextileX Month, your eye may have been drawn skyward. Sailing above the entrance to the galleries, leading guests to the two exhibits filling the galleries with patchwork leather...

SWANA Stitch @Swanastitchpdx opens a community show tied to Portland TextileX Month: Origin Stories this Saturday, October 5th. With the title “Homelands Within,” the show asks contributing textile artists from the SWANA (Southwest Asian and North African) communities...

Portland Textile Month 2024: Origin Stories is being ushered in with the opening of Dakota Transit: Sonic Couture, an exhibition dedicated to the patchwork snakeskin and leather fashions created by designer Andrea Aranow between 1968 and 1973 in NYC. The show is...

How can one feel protected in an increasingly chaotic world? That is the central question that Orquidia Violeta @orquidia_violeta sought to wrestle with when she started making her Chalecos Protector (protective vests) in 2020. It may not bear explanation why this...

This fall, students at Portland State University will crack open their course catalog and see courses listed under a brand new minor being offered by the College of the Arts: Sustainable Fashion. As part of the rollout for this program, PSU @psu_textilearts is hosting...

Walking into Sincere Studio @sincerestudiopdx for the first time, I would describe the space’s vibe on first impression as “cozy industrial.” Frances Andonopoulos’s brainchild, opened two years ago, effectively melds the twinned lineages of fabric work, that of the...

Lauren Lesueur has big plans for the two story walls held up by the massive, deep red beams in the elle gallery + shop, her new storefront concept set to open on September 1st. Or, rather, she has big hopes for the plans of the artists she can’t wait to bring in to...