NW Sewn Field Trip! Burke Museum’s “Woven in Wool: Resilience in Coast Salish Weaving”
Woven in Wool: Resilience in Coast Salish Weaving showcases both historical and contemporary woven items, including blankets, tunics, hoods, and skirts. Join us for a special field trip to the Burke Museum’s exhibit, “Woven in Wool: Resilience in Coast Salish Weaving” on Wednesday, Oct. 29 from 11am-1pm (plus an optional coffee and chat to follow!) […]
The Future of Flexible Product Making & Manufacturing
A convening dedicated to ethical textile fabrication, small-batch manufacturing, and circular economies. Mechanism (formerly Urban Manufacturing Alliance) in partnership with Good Business Network of Washington are excited to announce an in-person gathering dedicated to sustainable and circular flexible product fabrication! This event will take place in Seattle, WA on November 13, 2025. The gathering will […]
Circular Textiles Speaker Series: Rebecca Burgess, Fibershed
Join us as we welcome Rebecca Burgess, Executive Director of Fibershed and author of the bestselling book Fibershed: Growing a Movement of Farmers, Fashion Activists, and Makers for a New Textile Economy.
Tickets: Get your tickets here!
- Tickets are free for members of Northwest Sewn.
- Tickets are $5 for non-members. Want to be a member? Check your eligibility and apply here.
Advancing Circularity
Northwest Sewn’s Circular Textiles Working Group is advancing the infrastructure and partnerships necessary to build a circular textiles economy in our region. We are a community of local businesses, nonprofit and public partners, and individuals – join us!
5th Annual Repair Economy Summit: Repairing Community
Join your colleagues working in repair, share, and reuse across North America and around the globe for two days of inspiration and rich conversation!
Summit Highlights Include:
- Asheville Tool Library and Western North Carolina Repair Café’s inspiring joint community disaster response to Hurricane Helene
- The latest on Right to Repair from Nathan Proctor of U.S. PIRG and Gay Gordon-Byrne of Repair.org and what you can do!
- Shareable’s public unveiling of the Library of Things Co-Lab Tool Kit!
- Dr. Sabrina Chakori, joining us for the first time since the inaugural 2020 Summit(!), to demonstrate how tool libraries, repair, and degrowth can create a path to a more just economic transition
- Updates on collaboratively developed resources like the reuse impact calculator, US repair groups database, and research library
- Incredible projects like repair voucher programs supporting local repair business, mobile tool libraries and peer-2-peer lending, and a free pre-apprenticeship program offered through the MN Tool Library that’s introducing participants to a variety of trades and tool education
- A Get-to-know-your-Repair-Economy-colleagues networking session facilitated by Reuse Minnesota
- Open space discussion breakouts on hot topics like scalability, repair & share models, youth repair education, legal matters, and more!
…plus a ton of other great sessions and conversations thanks to this amazing, creative, and resilient network!
Don’t miss it!
Circular Textiles Speaker Series: FABSCRAP
Join the Northwest Sewn Circular Textiles Working Group as we welcome Rachel Ceruti, Director of Partnerships with FABSCRAP to speak about their fabric recycling systems. We’ll find out how and why they came into being, how it works, what challenges they face, and what opportunities have helped FABSCRAP and the New York City circular economy grow!
Tickets: Tickets are free for members of Northwest Sewn.
Tickets are $5 for non-members. Want to be a member? Check your eligibility and apply here.
About our work
Northwest Sewn’s Circular Textiles Working Group is advancing the infrastructure and partnerships necessary to build a circular textiles economy in our region. We are a community of local businesses, nonprofit and public partners, and individuals – join us!
Circular Textiles Speaker Series: Circular Philadelphia
Join the Northwest Sewn Circular Textiles Working Group as we welcome Samantha Wittchen, Chair of Circular Philadelphia’s Textiles Working Group who will tell us about the evolution of Circular Philadelphia through the challenges and opportunities they faced in building circular infrastructure. Our group will engage in lively discussion about the lessons we can apply to our own regional efforts.
This will be the first in a series of events where we highlight and learn from successful efforts at building a circular economy.
Tickets: Tickets are free for members of Northwest Sewn.
Tickets are $5 for non-members. Want to be a member? Check your eligibility and apply here.
About Northwest Sewn
Northwest Sewn’s Circular Textiles Working Group is advancing the infrastructure and partnerships necessary to build a circular textiles economy in our region. We are a community of local businesses, nonprofit and public partners, and individuals – join us!
Circular Solutions for Flexible Product Fabrication | Showcase #2
In the second Circular Solutions for Flexible Product Fabrication Showcase you will hear from Rachel Ceruti, from FabScrap (New York City, New York). She will share their insights as leaders in manufacturing and design who are pushing boundaries, deploying new technology and skills, and working collaboratively to ensure our goods can find new value as part of a circular economy.
About the Showcase Series:
The Circular Solutions for Flexible Product Fabrication Showcase Series is an opportunity to hear from, and learn about, twelve companies from across the United States that are testing, scaling, or starting to implement one or more strategy for building circular systems in soft goods manufacturing.
The series is hosted by Urban Manufacturing Alliance and is a project in conjunction with our ongoing Flexible Product Fabrication Community of Practice.
To learn more about UMA, the Showcase Series, and how to join the Flexible Product Fabrication Community of Practice, contact Andrew Dahlgren, Place Program Director, at andrew@urbanmfg.org