We’re trying something new here folks:

On Sunday March 23 from 1-5pm, we will be hosting a small group stripe-design and napkin-weaving workshop here at the mill. In this workshop, we’ll do a deep-dive-studio-tour, showcasing the many and delightful steps of weaving at an industrial scale. Participants will then use yarn wrappings and drawings to design their own custom stripe layouts, which we will then translate into a weft sequence for… a set of 6 delightful striped cotton napkins! We’ll weave the napkins on our 16-harness industrial dobby loom and TWM will hem and wash the napkins for you and send them out to you shortly after the workshop.

$200 per household/set of 6 napkins(up to 3 people per household are welcome to join)

Space very limited!*
Email info@theweavingmill.com to secure your spot

*This is a pilot run of something we’re hoping to do more of, depending on interest and availability in our warping schedule. So please let us know if you’re interested even if this timeline/workshop isn’t in the cards for you.

Why should we hog all the fun of designing???

TWM is hitting the road.

We’re going to be out at Granor Farm in Three Oaks, Michigan for their holiday sale ~ and we can’t wait. We’ll have lots of nice textiles to share, with a special emphasis on Kitchen and Wooly-Cozy. If you’re in the area, stop by! It’s a beautiful farm. Or if you’re in Chicago and looking for an excuse for a winter day trip to Michigan, this seems like a pretty good one. Guaranteed Festive.

From the Farm:

Visit Granor Farm decorated for the holidays at our Annual Holiday Market! In addition to a wide variety of Granor-grown vegetables and prepared foods from our kitchen, we've curated seasonal products for a knockout holiday feast! In our schoolhouse find the perfect holiday gift from local artisans. Plus sample specialty cheese selections and Granor Table Wines as inspiration for your holiday charcuterie board and libations.

W.A.R.P. 2024 : EMMA KERBER

Come on out for our annual Sample Sale

We’ll have remnants, test fabrics, scraps, treasures, odds & ends, cold brew, one-offs, weirdos, and remnants priced by the ounce.

Very exciting development: some brand new fabrics by the yard will be available before we release them to the wider world! Stock up on beautiful fabrics for future projects. We got you covered.

Sunday July 28
12-3pm
1801 North Spaulding Ave
Chicago IL

Join TWM and Production Mode for a delightful afternoon unlocking the secrets of weaving.

Reverse drafting is the process of unraveling fabric swatches and diagramming their construction using weave draft notation on graph paper. In this afternoon workshop, Emily Winter from TWM will lead participants through the process of unraveling swatches of woven cloth and diagramming their construction on graph paper. It’s really fun! Think of it like a material sudoku. You don’t have to be a weaver to get in on this. If you like puzzles of any kind, we think you’ll enjoy it.

Materials provided, but feel free to bring a swatch of fabric if you're curious about how it was made!

Drinks and light snacks will also be provided.

Register here

Cost is $45 per attendee. If this cost is prohibitive to you, send us a message at sales@productionmodechicago.com

This workshop is hosted at Production Mode Chicago, 3860 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60613

All sales are final.

Come on out to The Wayback gallery at the Chicago Weaving School to celebrate the release of Wool Work, a book by Emily Winter, TWM co-founder and director, documenting a segment of the domestic wool supply chain, starting with the 2019 Navajo Nation Wool Buy.

Every summer from 2012-2019, a group of commercial wool-buyers converged on the Navajo Nation to purchase raw wool from Diné producers. The wool was shipped to Ohio for sorting then onto South Carolina for scouring. In the process, the wool transformed from a material with a visible origin & history into a generic commodity dispersed into the global market. Wool Work makes visible some of the places, people and processes that constitute this segment of the wool supply chain--it's an exercise in close looking, in finding value in the mundane and in seeking traces of history, labor and landscape in the textiles we make and live with.

Saturday February 17, 3-7pm

The Wayback at the Chicago Weaving School

4201 West Irving Park Rd, Chicago IL

Books will be available for purchase

Come join us for an open studio— it’s been a minute since we had one! We’ll be doing some weaving demos and will have a whole bunch of new beautiful textiles (haven’t even made it to the website yet!) available for purchase (including some pieces from our fresh collaboration with Offcut!) for those of you interested in getting a jump on your holiday shopping.

1801 North Spaulding Chicago IL

Sunday November 19, 1-5

Come through the parking lot to the loading dock at the back of the building and come on into the studio

While you’re out and about, check out some of our textile compatriots who are also hosting open houses this weekend:

Apparel Industry Board Inc  Nov 18, Saturday, 10-2pm 

The Chicago Weaving School Nov 18, Saturday, 3-7pm 

The Weaving Mill Nov 19, Sunday, 1-5pm

Passementerie Mill Nov 19, Sunday, 1-5pm

LMRM Nov 19, Sunday, 2-6pm

We’ve been working for the last few months on a very fun collaboration with Offcut Shop, a project we’ve long admired for their sprightly and clever reanimation of wood scraps.

It’s a match made in heaven, really: textile scraps meet wood offcuts, great design results!

Come on out and see the fruits of our collaboration on Friday October 20, 6-9, at the Offcut showroom, 3951 West Belden.

Open showroom hours on Saturday 10/21 as well

Come on out for our third annual SAMPLE SALE EXTRAVAGANZA

We’ll have remnants, samples, scraps, fabric-by-the-yard, odds & ends. In other words: Pure Potential. Sunny day: we’ll be in the parking lot. Rainy day: we’ll be in the building. Either way, it promises to be a good time.

Sunday August 6, 10-2

1801 North Spaulding

Come out to Compound Yellow on Saturday 12/3 for a very nice holiday market. We’ll be bringing our favorite textiles and looking forward to a very nice day with many other great makers and artists.

Saturday December 3, 11-5

244 Lake Street, Oak Park IL

Come visit TWM as part of Chicago Textile Week’s Open Studio Tours: see our looms in action, peruse our products, visit our Seed Library to select some natural dye and fiber seeds for next year’s planting. We’ll be cleaning the joint up in anticipation of your visit and bringing our people-powered fiber shredder out for a ride.

Make a day of it and visit the other excellent studios that are open around the city that day: Bryana Bibbs, Bridgeport Art Center / Melissa Leandro, Humboldt Park / Robert Paige, Hyde Park Art Center / Hope Wang and LMRM, Mana Contemporary, Pilsen / Aubrey Pittman-Heglund, Mana Contemporary, Pilsen / Passementerie Mill, Belmont Cragin