Explore hands-on textile, fiber, and leather classes led by artists and makers. Work with materials like wool, fabric, yarn, and leather while learning techniques to create something of your own.
East Village
Join a two-part felt hat making workshop in NYC and create your own wearable hat in a working millinery studio. In this hands-on class led by Julia Knox, you’ll learn how a classic felt hat is blocked, shaped, finished, and trimmed. Choose from styles such as a fedora,...
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Sunset Park
Make a leather wallet you’ll actually carry in this beginner-friendly leatherworking class in Industry City, Brooklyn. Choose from three wallet designs, then personalize your piece through details such as the leather color, stitching, and optional foil embossing. You’ll learn the core techniques of leatherworking by measuring and cutting...
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East Village
Learn to make a felt fascinator in NYC at this one-day workshop held in a working hat studio in the East Village. You'll turn felt offcuts and old hats into a percher, a small sculptural cocktail hat that sits on top of the head rather than covering it....
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Greenpoint
Step into a working textile atelier in the heart of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and spend three hours creating something completely your own. No experience or artistic background is required, just curiosity and a willingness to play with color and texture. In this hands-on textile workshop, you will discover Paint...
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Sunset Park
This leather bag making class in NYC welcomes complete beginners, no leatherworking experience needed. You will spend the day at a workshop in Industry City, Brooklyn, cutting, riveting, and sewing your own custom tote bag from real leather. Your instructor guides you step by step, and you will...
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East Village
Discover the art of needle felting in NYC in this hands-on workshop with milliner Tierre Taylor. Using a special barbed needle and colorful wool fibers, you'll learn to add decorative details to felt hats, almost like painting with wool. Needle felting is a dry felting technique that uses...
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East Village
Join East Village Hats for a beginner-friendly hat making workshop in NYC where you’ll create a sculptural Sina-Silk Waterlily headpiece using silk and sinamay. In this hands-on taster class, you’ll be introduced to Sina-Silk, a technique combining silk and sinamay into a flexible material for shaping floral, wearable...
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East Village
Learn wire millinery in NYC at this two day hat making workshop with visiting milliner Maor Zabar. On Sunday, November 15 and Monday, November 16 in the East Village, you'll create a sculptural, wearable headpiece using wire structures that make decorative elements appear to float above your head....
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