Activities
Local Linen: Cultivating the Future of Flax
​Join Collab at the Philadelphia Museum of Art for a hands-on textile workshop.
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When
Where
Main Building,
Learning & Engagement Center
​Join Collab at the Philadelphia Museum of Art for a hands-on textile workshop. Experience the process of transforming flax straw into spinnable fiber, then sewing that thread into a simple Japanese mending pattern.
Experts from Approved Textiles and the PA Flax Project will lead this celebration of slow fashion, and discuss linen’s role as a sustainable and ethically-produced textile grown in the Philadelphia region.
Attendees to the event should enter the museum at the North Entrance on the ground floor of the main building.
Things to know:
- General admission: $15
- Members: $10
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