Image courtesy of TATTER
Title: Blue: Tatter Textile Library Tour
When: Saturday, February 7, 2026, 10:45 am (Tour begins promptly at 11:00 am)
Duration: 1 hour
Capacity: 15
Cost: Free! (ART Members and Non-Members)
Location: 505 Carroll St #2b, Brooklyn, NY 11215
Join us for a behind-the-scenes tour of BLUE: The TATTER Textile Library. BLUE preserves, interprets, and presents global textile knowledge and artistry across time in an effort to cultivate cross-cultural and intergenerational understanding. The Library’s holdings reflect textile knowledge from the proto-historic to the present and across all regions and cultures. The collection holds nearly 7,000 titles, including books, pamphlets, periodicals, exhibition catalogs, artist’s books, zines, ephemera, design patterns, and disc medial, as well as nearly 1,500 textile objects, including tools and equipment, costume, lace, buttons, samplers, swatches, fragments, and artwork.
This is an in-person event limited to 15 people. Registration is non-transferable. Please note that you MUST reserve a ticket in advance online in order to attend this event.
In the occasion that the event is sold out, we highly recommend joining the waitlist. An ART staff member will reach out to you if a spot becomes available. Unless you've been given permission, please do not show up at the event without registering.
Arrival information: Tatter is located at 505 Carroll St #2b, Brooklyn, NY 11215. The closest subway lines are the D, N, and R lines at the Union Street station. Elevator access is available at 540 President St.
ABOUT
Open to the public by appointment, BLUE is an immersive reading and learning space. It offers visitors an aesthetic and tactile experience in its carefully chosen hues and textures. Different from traditional libraries, the intense presence of color evokes the complex relationship between humans and cloth. The saturation reminds us not just of the cultural and economic significance of color, but also that textiles permeate all industries and aspects of human life. BLUE is an exercise in legacy, interweaving the personal collections of three women: Edith Robinson Wyle (1918-1999), founder of the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles; her granddaughter Jordana Munk Martin, founder of TATTER; and Carol Westfall (1938-2016), renowned fiber artist and professor.
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