Textile Makerspace

2026 Textile Dataviz Showcase

2026-05-21T00:00:00Z

On June 5 from 1-4 PM, we will be holding the third annual Textile Dataviz Showcase, with contributions from students in DLCL 203: Data Visualization with Textiles, as well as other Stanford makers. The showcase will be held in Hohbach Hall 126 (first floor of Green Library).

If you'd like to share some of your work in the exhibit, please fill out this form by Tuesday, June 2st and we'll follow up with details. Please contact Quinn Dombrowski (qad@stanford.edu) with any questions.

Photos from past years' showcase

2025 Textile Dataviz Showcase

2025-05-15T00:00:00Z

On June 3 from 1-4 PM, we will be holding the second annual Textile Dataviz Showcase, with contributions from students in DLCL 203: Data Visualization with Textiles, as well as other Stanford makers, alongside materials from Stanford Libraries Special Collections.

If you'd like to share some of your work in the exhibit, please fill out this form by Wednesday, May 28th and we'll follow up with details. Please contact Quinn Dombrowski (qad@stanford.edu) with any questions.

Photos from last year's showcase

What is #DHMakes?

2024-09-25T00:00:00Z

This post is by Amanda, Claudia, and Quinn-- a few of the many #DHmakes community members, who've described the community in a couple places. We're gathering those descriptions into one post (though a hashtag in use across multiple platforms is defined by its users, so we aren't the authority, and its use will evolve over time!).

DH = digital humanities (folks using or building digital tools like websites, code, VR to explore humanities areas like culture, history, art, ethics; folks using those kinds of humanities approaches to critique technology)
Makes = craft, making, makerspace types of creative work

We published a peer-reviewed article in the Korean Journal of Digital Humanities,"#DHmakes: Baking Craft into DH Discourse", if you want to know a lot about the community's origins, history, and outputs.

If you want a ✨tl;dr✨ though, here's a FAQ!

Who started this?

We're digital humanities people who incorporate physical making/art into our work (or do it as a hobby and share it online somewhere)!

Who is this for?

#DHmakes is loosely folks in digital humanities/libraries/academia/learning-work who craft/make (including as non-job hobby), open to anyone interested.

What kinds of things get posted?

"I made/am making a thing!"
work related to including craft/textile work in making
works-in-progress, fails, public figuring-out how to do some method/project
explicitly celebrating, amplifying, encouraging neat craft/make work, whether or not the creators are digital humanities people
encouraging sharing "this is my hobby, not my job" crafts
getting started

What kinds of making/crafting?

All of them? We're interested in an expansive definition and especially things that have sometimes gotten left out of how people think of makerspaces/making, such as textile art. Other frequent areas of interest tagged #DHmakes include craft/making work related to:

history
culture & pop culture
zines
data visualization & embodiment, including personal data
queer/feminist/critical tech, social justice
play with historical craft practices
expansive definitions of making that assert awesomeness of areas like fabric arts, cooking, fashion\

For examples, check out Quinn's Textile Makerspace, Claudia's and Gabby Evergreen's "Pockets of Information", Jacqueline Wernimont's "Visualizing Energy Data or Visceralizing Energy Transitions", and Amanda's Scholars' Lab "expansive makerspace"-tagged posts page.

Why have I been tagged #DHmakes?

Folks RT/repost cool, relevant craft/making work with the tag so others get to admire them too.

Am I "DH enough" to use the hashtag?

The "DH" in #DHmakes is digital humanities. We're guessing the other most active hashtag users agree with us: anyone curious about DH (not necessarily "experienced" or in a "DH job") should participate! Workers, students, hobbyists in areas like gallery/library/archive/museum/learning that are DH or feel adjacent too.

Have you done things beyond using a hashtag?

Yes!

A collaborative making project as part of a conference session (ACH 2023) plus a blog post explaining the different crafts/crafters included
A mini-conference (at DH 2024)
A journal special issue: dh+lib Critical Making Special Issue
A peer-reviewed journal article: "#DHmakes: Baking Craft into DH Discourse"
Series of public "intro to x method" talks (#DHmakes Methodz Talks, Fall 2024)

You can follow #DHmakes using a feed of all tagged posts, or a feed of just the #DHmakes posts that include photos.

Data Visualization with Textiles 2024 Final Showcase

2024-05-08T00:00:00Z

On June 5th from 12-4 PM, there will be a final showcase for the 2024 Data Visualization with Textile class, along with other recent (and not at all recent) pieces of textile art, courtesy of the campus making community and Special Collections. The showcase will take place in Hohbach Hall, in Green Library. All members of the campus community are welcome; external guests are also welcome, but will need to register at the entrance to the library.

If you're interested in contributing something to the showcase, please fill out this form by June 3.

For questions, please contact Quinn Dombrowski, qad@stanford.edu.

#DH Makes at ACH 2023

2023-06-29T00:00:00Z

The idea

In January 2022, the hashtag #DHMakes got some traction on DH Twitter, as a way to celebrate the creativity of the DH community, which is often infused with and shaped by their digital humanities work.

For ACH 2023, a group of us (Claudia Berger, Quinn Dombrowski, Jojo Karlin, Alix Keener, Anne Ladyem McDivitt, Amanda Visconti, and Jacque Wernimont) got together to attempt an "alternate format" contribution that would create a virtual curated collection of making shared across the now-fragmented social media platforms of digital humanities, and also involve a collaborative making project.

The collaboration

We had just one synchronous brainstorming session that led to more ideas than we were ultimately able to implement. The group project coalesced around the idea of "DH Scouts", and a vest with badges on it in the spirit of Girl Scouts. It also had pockets, ideologically, in protest of the widespread absence of functional pockets in "women's" clothing.

In addition, we crowdsourced suggestions for logos of "dead" DH projects: including tools/infrastructure that had been shut down, projects that were no longer maintained (and/or whose websites had lapsed), and organizations that were defunct. We printed these logos onto fabric and sewed them into a dress for Dr. Cheese Bones (of DH/ACH 2019 fame, and the Textile Makerspace mascot) to wear.

DH animals

The back of the vest, as well as the pockets, are interpretations of Jojo Karlin's doodle on the theme of "DH animals".

The images in the doodle have to do with some of the mascots that circulate in digital humanities spaces: Digital Manatees (which began as a curious mishearing of Digital Humanities), the Humanities Commons platypus, the DHSI crow, a Twitter bird communing with a Mastodon. The team brainstormed a peaceable kingdom of curious creatures to complement the activity of DH.

At the Textile Makerspace, Quinn used the Brother KH-940 knitting machine, recently hacked using the All Yarns Are Beautiful hardware and software, to render the doodle in knitting, which forms the lower back of the vest.

The pockets are an automated embroidery design conversion from a SVG version of the doodle. It wasn’t optimized at all in terms of which pieces were embroidered in which order, so there were running threads all over. Those threads were trimmed on one of the pockets, but not the other, for a glitch-art effect.

Zine card deck

The pockets are exactly the right size to hold Amanda’s zine card deck.

ACH badge

Anne Ladyem needle felted an ACH logo, which Quinn sewed (using a decorative leaf stitch) onto a backing and attached it to the vest using Velcro to make the whole piece washable.

Quilt

Claudia Berger sewed a miniature quilt patch that visualized the top terms in ACH 2023 session titles, with metadata for each section on the backside. Quinn attached it to the vest only at the top, so it can be flipped up for metadata visibility.

Future additions

Finger weaving

Alix Keener is working on loop fastenings for the vest made out of finger-woven craft loops that will visualize the #DHMakes contributions from across social media during the conference.

Cards

Jacque Wernimont hoped to get these made as buttons that could go on the vest: "The idea is that they are status cards that share the kind of work is one doing now. They obviously evoke tarot cards, but are not designed to tell any futures 🙂 but to reflect a present, though of course one could go in all kinds of directions."

The model

Dr. Cheese Bones modeled the outfit, requiring an arm-socket repair in the process.

Making together, at a distance

In addition to our one synchronous Zoom call, we had an ongoing email thread where we kept in touch with updates, images, and words of encouragement. Seeing each other’s pieces as they were completed helped motivate us to finish our pieces, as well as to confirm where/when to mail them!

The vest will likely take on a life as a traveling object, accruing new adornments along the way. Look for it at a future virtual or in-person DH conference!

Hong Kong University 'New Horizons in DH' Textile Data Visualization

2023-06-05T00:00:00Z

The idea

The New Horizons in Digital Humanities & Cultural Data Science workshop at Hong Kong University, organized by Javier Cha, brought together experts in digital humanities and data science from around the world for a week of lectures and hands-on sessions on topics ranging from text annotation to multilingual text analysis to GIS and conspiracy theory networks.

But before the workshop started, there was a day trip to Macau, which I had written my elementary school country report on and had always wanted to visit. I'd been planning a lunchtime textile data viz workshop, and had brought with me my Addi circular knitting machine along with a bunch of assorted yarn, but I didn't have a plan for what we'd make. That changed in a little cafe most of the way up the Fortaleza do Monte, where fellow instructors Gimena del Rio Riande and Melanie Walsh were discussing their travel routes to get to Hong Kong while we picked up bottles of water and enjoyed some AC. It occurred to me that the space and time of transit was a shared experience for everyone at the workshop, local or visitor, and we could represent both together.

Gimena's talk on "Humanidades Digitales: A Low-Tech Approach to Digital Humanities", on the first day of the workshop, literally gave shape to the map component of the piece by reminding me of the Dymaxion map I made for the ill-fated Around DH 2020. By the time I held the textile data viz workshop at lunchtime that day, I had a plan to share: we'd fill in a survey about how long it took us to get here. That data would be a knitted rectangular base for the visualization. On top, I'd use yarn to embroider a world map (Dymaxion projection) as well as a Hong Kong map, and we'd add in people's actual routes to get to Hong Kong University.

The data

We sent out a survey later that day, with a deadline of the following day. We got 35 responses, and we added to that the 32 Zoom participants from the first day's session. For being a free-text field, the data wasn't too messy; most people answered in minutes or hours. I decided to exclude the one response that read "3 years"; I suppose "getting here" was potentially vague enough to include a more metaphorical understanding.

It took a few tries to cluster the responses down to a number of buckets that corresponded to the different yarns I had on hand. I also wanted the visualization to be roughly 100 rows of knitting; doing one per piece of data would only get me 2/3 of the way there. So I converted the responses to percentages instead of raw numbers (which I often recommend when you've got data that's either bigger or smaller than you want it to be).

Gimena helped me pick out which colors would correspond to which data ranges. From there, I measured out each color yarn and tied it together into a data ball.

I did a demo of how to use the Addi circular knitting machine to do flat knitting, but the flat knitting is a little more challenging than circular knitting, especially for beginners. I'd hoped to have participants knit the real data, but ran out of time and ended up doing it myself in the evening. Even I struggled a little with flat knitting on the machine, and ended up having several dropped stitches and holes to patch.

The maps

Embroidery is not a textile method I use a lot, and I've struggled with it before. I also struggle with drawing, leading me to conclude that I really needed to not attempt freehand map embroidery. Student assistants printed out copies of the two maps for me at roughly the right size, and I cut them out and tried to embroider around the shapes.

The base material created by the knitting machine introduced challenges. Cutting out the paper shapes already forced some simplification of the images (goodbye, complex coastlines!) but sometimes there just weren't enough knitted stitches to be able to render even those simplified shapes. I'd used a fairly fine yarn (rainbow-colored, representing Zoom participants), but the problem is that the circular knitting machine only has one needle gauge, optimized for thicker yarns. Several times when I was trying to render a shape, I'd realize I was stitching into the same hole I'd just stitched out of, undoing the previous stitch instead of creating a new one. The result was almost like a new projection, shaped by the materiality of its substrate.

Points on the map

I started off using red pony beads for all the airports, but soon realized I'd run out of red pony beads and would have to switch to orange. (I'd brought various shades of red and orange, plus pink sparkles, with me on the trip; they're the least popular colors corresponding to angry/negative feelings on this year's Textile Makerspace sign-in loom.) It actually worked out to have orange as points of origin, and red as points of transfer. If a point was both origin for someone and transfer for someone else, it defaulted to orange.

Attaching the beads left me reflecting on the challenges of GIS, and things like questions of precision when geocoding data. If you think geocoding a city name is bad (it'll just put you in the center of the city, which is almost certainly what you actually want), try representing an airport using a pony bead on a loosely-knit textile with an embroidered rendering of a map in an unusual projection. Suffice it to say, the East Coast feels very crowded.

The beads also pushed the boundaries of the map and further distorted things; I transferred through Manila, which realistically should've been somewhere off the edge of the knitting. I put it on the edge instead.

The Hong Kong airport was indicated with a pink sparkly bead on the international map, and on the Hong Kong map. Hong Kong University also got a pink sparkly bead, as it was the location of the conference.

Tracing paths

I had already asked for the speakers' international flight path, and began by embroidering those on the world map. Gimena's route from Argentina to Brazil to Ethiopia involved the longest piece of path-yarn, which became a bit loose the way I tied it to the knitting. Maybe there's something in there about the way time drags on when flying across the world.

I'd decided to use turquoise for flight paths, which meant we'd need other colors for other types of travel. Over lunch, I went around asking people for their routes, and orienting them to the Hong Kong map I'd attempted to embroider. I used a darker blue for MTR (subway) transit, which was the most common among the locals. There were several walking paths that were so short I used a single (rather than plied yarn) for those. Yellow was bus, and pink was car (one each). One participant leaned into having complex data, using one means of transit to drop off his daughter, and another to go from her school to the workshop; we tied two colors of yarn together, and put the knot in the center of the path. He took a picture to share with his daughter.

Metadata

This blog post serves as the documentation for what everything on the textile data viz means, but I wanted to put a label on it so people in the future might have some sense at least of what event it corresponded to. So, once again braving the waters of embroidery, I attempted to write "HKU New Horizons 2023" on it.

The final visualization

Here's the final visualization, in its entirety and with a close-up of the two sides.

And just for fun, here's the backside of data:

And me with the data viz, and the workshop's real-world Instagram frame:

Bonus: Material afterlives

I got too many souvenirs in Hong Kong and needed to bring a lot less yarn home with me, so I made (non-data) scarves to thank the student assistants.

I also made one data scarf using color data, as a thank you present for Jodie Cheng who showed us around for some authentic souvenir shopping in the Sham Shui Po area on Saturday.

Starting from the bottom left and working up, then down the other column, the colors represent:

Colorful fabrics in the Sham Shui Po textile area

Rainbow children's toy stands

Electronics shops in the basement (and all the dongles and wires)

Red Mong Kok ("Bustling Corner") MTR sign

Brown sandwiches with green pandan paste at lunch at Semua Semua

Orange noodles (not pictured) at lunch
Turquoise green rice at lunch

Blue cyanotype prints of Lion Rock at a souvenir stand

Shiny metal and glass mall

Purple seats on the bus back

White boba (I got lychee with cheese foam)

Tie dye day

2023-05-03T00:00:00Z

Despite some uncooperative cloudy and rainy weather the Textile Makerspace attempted a tie-dye pop-up in the courtyard of Pigott Hall on May 2nd. We'll try again when it's closer to summer and the vibes are better!

PhD Quilt

2023-04-23T00:00:00Z

Context

I made this data visualization PhD quilt in 2013 when my husband, Andy, graduated with a dual PhD in linguistics and Slavic linguistics. I had been sewing for 3 years at that point (only with wovens), and had never done anything quilt-like before.

My husband's dissertation was on phonological contact, particularly between Slavic and non-Slavic languages. At the point when I was making this visualization, he had decided to be done with academia and pursue something in the biomedical field. I wanted this to be a tribute to everything he had done, in the context of what he was planning to do next.

The data

On March 15, 2013, I was trying to sort out numbers to quantify his time in the PhD program in various ways.

Big things

(1 marriage)
1 dissertation (6 chapters)
1 proposal
1 QP

Exams (9 total)

6 ling masters exams
3 Slavic PhD exams

Classes (50)

Teaching (6 taught, 25 lectureships)

1st year Russian - 5x
Russian Through Pushkin - 6x
4th year Russian - 9x
2nd year Russian - 1x
South Slavic I & II - 2x

Language drills

Russian Through Pushkin - 3x (head of Pushkin)
2nd year Russian - 3x (borscht)
4th year Russian - 3x (border of Soviet Union)
1st year BCS - 6x
2nd year BCS - 6x

Writing intern (2 classes, 8 total)

Language and the Human - 5x
Human Being and Citizen - 3x

Languages taken (13)

Russian
BCS
Albanian
Macedonian
Bulgarian
Turkish
Uzbek
Georgian
Old Turkic
Old Russian
Chechen
Aromanian
French

Publications (11)

Fellowships (2)

Whiting Dissertation Fellowship
Century Fellowship

Talks and presentations (34 + Slavic Forum)

Other numbers

2 departments
7 years
3 summer seminars (Albanian, Macedonian, medieval Slavic)

The design

There was more data than I could reasonably squeeze into a quilt of the size I imagined. So I had to narrow it down to what seemed like the most important things, and then map them to elements of the design. I don't remember how I/we came up with the design idea, but I have these notes:

6 rays off sun for 6 chapters
ball of sun
publications & conference papers
earth/rocks for courses, languages
teaching is sky?

Below that, a break in the notes, and a sketch I think Andy made:

Dissertation = sun + 6 chapters

11 publications
34-35 talks

Teaching = sky

6 classes, 25 lectureships
6 drills - 24 sessions
2 writing internships, 8 total

Exams (9) = water

Classes taken (50) = rocks Here the notes look like I was trying to roughly calculate what size the rocks should be

10" high (+ extra), 36" wide
2 extras
48 / 4 = 12
less than 1 high, more than 3 wide

Languages learned (13) = grass

The colors

The numbers of fabric pieces in each zone of the design represented one set of things (as described above), but the colors and actual fabric design for each zone had a different symbolism.

Slavia Orthodoxa (green/grass)

Text-based
Old Church Slavonic Bible quote
Birchbark letters (note: the birchbark letter I used was #605, an excerpt from which is on our wedding rings)

Turkish (blue/water)

Ottoman poetry / calligraphy

Albanian (yellow / sun)

Mashup of less-well-known alphabets witha good text
One text, many alphabets

South Slavic (gray / rocks)

Latin / Cyrillic font, trilingual text (BCS, Macedonian, Bulgarian)
Multiple texts, single combined alphabet

Evolution / language contact / language change (gradient / sky)

Mashup
Phonology / IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)
Evolution, adaptive landscape, bio reference TBD
Symbolic of language contact

This one was the most challenging to render, as you might guess from the vague notes. There were 5 versions of the double helix design, which is what we settled on for the "bio reference TBD". We ended up using a variety of different scripts for T/C/A/G on the double helix:

Cyrillic
Georgian a, t, ts, g (ejectives)
Devanagari
Arabo-persian t, emphatic t; k g
Greek (alpha, tao, kappa, gamma)
Glagolitic
medieval Cyrillic

Because the sky was going to be a gradient (to represent the sunset on an academic career, and the sunrise on a biomedical career), I created a final design that would have the double helix in different colors depending on the color of the background:

The final fabric

I put together a final design that was 42" wide (the max printing width for woven fabrics on Spoonflower) and 108" long (3 yards), with enough of each fabric design for me to cut out the necessary number of pieces. (Want to see the full resolution version in all its detail? Click here for a PDF).)

Cutting and sewing

I only have one photo of me working on this project: chopping up the gray rocks fabric.

Looking at the back of the piece, it's apparent how very "winging it" the whole thing was, cutting and sewing approximations that I hoped would work well enough... and sewing things with more or less seam allowance on the fly when they weren't working out well.

What happened next

The sides were... not straight. Certainly not straight enough that I could finish them easily, without completely losing some of the fabric pieces that were important for the counts. The sun ball did not lay flat, and was curved and sort of puffy regardless of what I did with it. Also, our first kid was born in November 2013, so soon after this project I became preoccupied with baby stuff. It went into a closet. Then was moved to another closet when we moved to our current house three years later. I forgot about it altogether, honestly.

But teaching Data Visualization with Textiles gave me a chance to revisit it, and you know, I'm now going to figure out a way to hem it, even if I have to pad out the edges a bit. And I'm going to hang it up. It meant a lot to me and my husband that I rediscovered this in the depths of the fabric closet, and now I feel proud of it as the beginning of something I didn't even recognize as being a thing at the time. There are things in our lives that are these recurring themes, that echo in different ways at different times. For me, I think textiles + data viz is one of them.

Yarn donations from Mary Prada Dombrowski

2023-04-18T00:00:00Z

An incredible donation of many boxes of yarn brought together Textile Makerspace staff and visitors for a yarn party. Mary Prada Dombrowski delighted students with a gorgeous and diverse assortment of yarns, which were immediately put to good use through knitting and crochet projects. These special yarns are in their own plastic tubs in the Makerspace, and all are welcome to use them -- just send Quinn a picture of what you make, so our generous donor can enjoy them.

Textile Makerspace renovation complete

2023-04-13T00:00:00Z

After 9 months of off-and-on work as time, funding, and energy permitted, the Textile Makerspace renovation is finally complete, with the re-hanging of the whiteboard upon the wall! We're grateful to the whole TAPS crew who have helped, but most of all Heather Patterson Miller, the architect for this entire vision of transforming the Makerspace.

Needle felting pop-up at library exhibit on food

2023-04-11T00:00:00Z

This month's Special, Unique, and Rare exhibit at the Library had the theme of food, so the Textile Makerspace hosted a hands-on activity for needle felting food (or anything else).

Staff and grad students alike seemed to find needle felting to be a pleasingly cathartic craft activity!

Kicking off DLCL 203: Data Visualization with Textiles

2023-04-03T00:00:00Z

Spring quarter kicks off the first-ever class of DLCL 203: Data Visualization with Textiles. In this independent study, students can come by the Textile Makerspace during any of its open hours to learn from staff (or practice on their own) textile-related tools and methods, with the goal of creating a project that incorporates data in some way.

Quinn's experimental project will be to create a toy data set of transcribed and annotated Calvin and Hobbes comics, looking at different ways to visualize that data in yarn.

Visit to the Digital Justice Lab

2023-03-17T00:00:00Z

As part of a retreat for the Data-Sitters Club, Textile Makerspace director Quinn Dombrowski visited Prof. Jacque Wernimont's Digital Justice Lab at Dartmouth, and was inspired by Molly Morin's KnitLab project there. A KH-940 digital knitting machine may be coming soon to the Textile Makerspace.

Makerspace Annex impacted by flood

2023-03-08T00:00:00Z

A faulty water fountain on the 3rd floor of Pigott Hall led to collapsed ceiling tiles on the 1st floor of the building, including the newly-renamed Textile Makerspace Annex AKA Quinn's office. The 1960's LeClerc Mira loom, which had barely been in the room for a week, bore the brunt of the mushy ceiling tiles, but thanks to some quick work and advocacy on the part of DLCL facilities manager John Richardson, we don't expect it will sustain significant permanent damage. Many thanks, too, to the making@stanford folks who came over to lend a hand with saving the loom!

Textile Makerspace at Library 'Technology' pop-up exhibit

2023-03-07T00:00:00Z

The Textile Makerspace brought its loom and knitting machines to Hohbach Hall for the Special, Unique and Rare: Technology pop-up exhibit, giving visitors a chance to try out this textile technology.

LeClerc Mira counterbalance loom comes to the Textile Makerspace

2023-03-01T00:00:00Z

Newly arrived at the Textile Makerspace is a 45" ~1960s vintage LeClerc Mira counterbalance loom, which was so wide it had to be partially disassembled to get through the door. The loom is the first piece of equipment to be stationed in the newly-renamed Textile Makerspace Annex, previously known as Quinn's office, on the first floor of Pigott Hall (260-108).

Textile Makerspace celebrates data and textiles at the Love Data Week Fair

2023-02-14T00:00:00Z

The Textile Makerspace participated in the Love Data Week Fair on Valentine's Day, with a station dedicated to textiles and data. As part of the event, we surveyed library staff, followers on Mastodon and on Twitter, and people who attended the event in-person on their feeling about data. At the end of the event, we knitted everyone's results from a yarn "data ball" into a "data scarf".

Several of the CIDR staff who helped run the station were wearing matching shirts with Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation, sewed together at the Textile Makerspace. Stanford Digital Repository staff also handed out Valentines created at the Textile Makerspace using our Cricut Make.

Textile Makerspace hosts a blanket-making volunteer activity

2023-02-02T00:00:00Z

The Textile Makerspace hosted a Hands-On Bay Area no-sew blanket-making volunteer activity on February 2nd, with optional additional embroidery or appliqué for those inspired to do so. The blankets will be donated to local shelters for our unhoused neighbors.

Textile Makerspace gets a Brother KX-350 knitting machine

2023-01-11T00:00:00Z

Thanks to a generous gift from Ryan Lieu from Stanford Libraries' Preservation group, the Textile Makerspace now has a Brother KX-350 knitting machine! Come by to try it out.

making@stanford grant for the Textile Makerspace

2022-11-17T00:00:00Z

We are excited to share the news that the Textile Makerspace has received one of the pilot making@stanford grants, as part of a joint proposal with Miller Makers (at the Hopkins Marine Station) and the Terman MakerBar (in the engineering library)! We intend to use most of the funds to hire student staff to help keep the Makerspace open more hours, and more student-friendly hours.

Textile Makerspace at the Library's Textiles Pop-Up

2022-11-08T00:00:00Z

On November 8th, the Textile Makerspace held a hands-on pop-up event as part of Stanford Libraries Special, Unique and Rare: Textiles and Fashion event in Hohbach Hall.

We brought perler beads and had patterns from vintage weaving manuals on hand, giving participants a chance to recreate the weaving patterns (or anything else they'd like) through the medium of perler beads.

Textile Makerspace welcomes David Wrisley

2022-10-21T00:00:00Z

On October 21st, digital humanities scholar and multilingual DH activist David Wrisley visited the Textile Makerspace from NYU Abu Dhabi, reuniting with Dr. Cheese Bones, the Textile Makerspace skeleton who won the award for most innovative poster at the DH 2019 conference.

Textile Makerspace at the JEDI fair

2022-10-11T00:00:00Z

On October 11th, the Textile Makerspace had a station at the Stanford Libraries Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) Fair, with the guestbook loom giving visitors a place to express how they were feeling.

Friendship bracelet workshop

2022-09-28T00:00:00Z

On September 28th, Alix Keener led a workshop on creating friendship bracelets. The jellyfish friendship bracelet was especially popular, using a cardboard wheel cut out by our Cricut Make.

Textile Makerspace reopens

2022-09-23T00:00:00Z

After being closed since March 2020, the Textile Makerspace is officially reopening for fall quarter! Come by our space in Pigott Hall (260-238), where we've got plenty of new things to explore, including an embroidery machine! Don't forget to sign in with our new guestbook loom!