Sunday morning textile archiving workshop in association with the Lesbian Lives conference.

The workshop will take place at 9:30am on Sunday, October 26 at the LGBT Center, 208 W 13 St, New York, NY 10011.

The purpose of this project is to archive textiles from the homes of lesbians, sapphic-identifying individuals, and women-loving-women to share the stories and histories of those objects and their homes.

If you participate, you are asked to bring any used/worn textile that lives in their self-defined home, (for example: towel, rag, curtains, tablecloth, robe, blanket, potholder, oven mitt, apron, and beyond) that you are willing to part with.

The project will consist of an open 1.5 hour workshop in-person, mending/adorning the textile and reflecting on the textile's history and your experiences and associations to the idea of “home”. The room will be a closed space, with me and the other participants, and space and materials to work with.

Whenever you choose, you will be welcome to come up to a station with me and a recording device to talk about your experiences with home. When you are not being interviewed, there will be time and space to work on the textile independently as well. You will also be given the opportunity to share anything you wish about the textile in writing following its mending and adorning.

Here is the link for registration: bit.ly/sapphicarchive