The Textile Arts Center of Madison is off to a good start. Co-founder Elizabeth Tucker has been gratified by how the community has welcomed the new fiber arts makerspace: “The response has been so positive, we are really grateful. It’s been overwhelming in the best possible way.”
Tucker says about 500 people showed up to the center’s opening celebration on Oct. 29, with another couple hundred a few days later at Gallery Night. The inaugural fall workshops, including one in sashiko (Japanese mending) and indigo dyeing, were full.
People can “rehome” their leftover materials there, too, from yarn and fabric and thread to books and sewing machines, and Tucker wasn’t sure what to expect the first time the center was open to accept donations. She reports there was even “a line of cars” outside the center’s warehouse building on Pennsylvania Avenue that day….
