Celebrity chef duo Abbey Cook and Lish Steiling, The Taste Curators, bring the dinner party to you. You'll work with them to design a seasonal menu, served wherever you choose to host. Between courses, they'll send out a series of surprises: amuse-bouches, bites, and palate cleansers that are all brilliantly, unexpectedly blue.

This is textile thinking you can taste. When The Taste Curators last visited TATTER, they imagined what objects from our collection might taste like. Expect that same playful, curious spirit at your table. Each guest goes home with a copy of their cookbook, Palate Palette (the Blue Edition), so the evening lasts beyond the last bite.

Includes:

• Private dinner for 8–10 guests at a location of your choice
• Seasonal menu co-created with the chefs
• Blue amuse-bouches, appetizers, and palate cleansers throughout
• A signed copy of Palate Palette (Blue Edition) for every guest

RETAIL VALUE: $6,000

Taste Curators

The Taste Curators are a wife duo who inspire joy by showcasing the connections between food, fashion, and color. Through talks, private dinners, collaborations, and special events, they bring together their professional worlds in a creative and experiential way. They have a cookbook series called Palate Palette where they link the flavor palates of food to the color palettes of design. They have worked with FIT, Virgin Voyages, Tilit, Frey Ranch, COS Bar, Siren Shrubs, and have been featured in Table Magazine and the Cherry Bombe newsletter. 

@the_taste_curators

www.thetastecurators.com

Step inside the DUMBO studio of Liz Collins, the celebrated textile artist whose bold, color-saturated work has been exhibited around the world, including at the Venice Biennale. You and five guests will gather around her worktable for an intimate needlepoint circle.

No experience is needed. Liz will teach you the technique herself and start each of you on a one-of-a-kind canvas of her own design. You'll leave with a work in progress designed by Liz and stitched by you, along with a rare look at where her art gets made.

Includes:

• Private studio visit and needlepoint session for 6
• Hands-on instruction from Liz Collins
• An original Liz Collins needlepoint design for each guest to keep and finish
• All materials provided

RETAIL VALUE $5,000

Liz Collins

Liz Collins is renowned for her textile-based art, pushing boundaries with fabric, yarn, and other materials. Her abstract work, rich in bold colors and patterns, subtly references queer and feminist themes, drawing inspiration from forces like electricity and energy exchange. Collins often explores the interplay of structure and entropy in her art, from textiles to installations, using processes like deconstruction to challenge rigid systems.

lizcollins.com
@lizzycollins7

For your next vacation spend a week in the home of TATTER founder Jordana Munk Martin at her Midcoast Maine home. The house has been featured in The World of Interiors and in the book The Maine House. It sleeps up to 10, with 4 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, a chef's kitchen, and a heated pool. Pick vegetables from the garden and fruit from the orchard for dinner, then spend the evenings outside by the pool.

Jordana will also curate a textile-enthusiast's self-guided tour of the area for you, a personal guide to the makers, collections, and hidden spots that most visitors never find.

Includes:

• One-week stay for up to 10 guests
• 4 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, chef's kitchen, heated pool, vegetable garden and fruit orchard
• A custom textile tour of the region, curated by Jordana

RETAIL VALUE $10,000

with private chef: $14,000*

*Experience does not include chef. Jordana Munk Martin is happy to recommend one for an additional $4,000, if desired. 

Jordana Munk Martin

Jordana Munk Martin, MFA, RISD 2001, is the founder of TATTER, a cultural arts organization based in Brooklyn, NY, that explores textiles as a medium for fostering human connection and understanding. TATTER houses a public textile research library comprising 10,000 books and objects related to textiles. Through more than 150 classes and programs annually, the organization serves over 8,500 students worldwide.

Jordana is also the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TATTERJournal, a semiannual publication examining textiles across contemporary fine art, design, and culture. She previously served as Board President of the Textile Arts Center in Brooklyn, NY, where she also founded the Artist in Residence program. From 2012 to 2018, she served as a trustee of the Craft and Folk Art Museum (now Craft Contemporary) in Los Angeles, CA.

tatter.org
@tatterbluelibrary

Step into Sri Threads for a private, after-hours tour and shopping visit led by gallerist Stephen Szczepanek, one of the most respected dealers of antique Japanese folk textiles. Stephen will walk you through the collection piece by piece, explaining where each textile came from, how it was made, and the stories behind its patches, motifs, dye techniques, and wear.

Over green tea and small bites, you'll have time to look closely, ask questions, and shop the collection with the expert himself guiding you. It's a rare chance to learn from someone who has spent his career finding and caring for these pieces, and maybe to take some home. Great for the boro or indigo enthusiast.

Includes:

• Private tour of Sri Threads for up to 6 guests, led by Stephen Szczepanek
• Expert background on the textiles on view
• A private shopping session
• Green tea and small bites

RETAIL VALUE $500

Sri Threads

Sri is a by-appointment textile gallery specializing in antique Japanese folk textiles, highlighting the indigo dyed cotton fabrics and boro–or patched and mended–textiles of old Japan.

srithreads.com

See Wicked from your seats, then go behind the curtain. You'll get two tickets to the long-running Broadway hit and a private tour of its famous, Tony Award-winning costumes, led by one of the tailors who keeps them stage-ready.

Get up close to the gowns, coats, and fantastical silhouettes of Oz. Learn how they're built, fitted, and repaired for eight shows a week, and hear the backstage stories you won't find in the Playbill. It's the ultimate Broadway night out for anyone who has ever wondered how a costume is made.

Includes:

• Two tickets to Wicked on Broadway
• Private tour of the costumes and costume shop with a Wicked costume tailor

RETAIL VALUE: $450 

Wicked

Winner of three 2004 Tony Awards, Wicked is a Broadway phenomenon that looks at what happened in the Land of Oz… but from a different angle. With a thrilling score that includes the hits “Defying Gravity,” “Popular” and “For Good,” Wicked transfixes audiences with its wildly inventive story and opulent physical production.

About Wicked

Overnight stay, farm tour, and private class at Isabella Rossellini's Long Island farm

Escape to Mama Farm, the Bellport, Long Island farm founded and owned by actress Isabella Rossellini. Up to six guests will spend a night at the farm's B&B and get a private tour of the grounds and their animals. Then you will roll up your sleeves for a private class taught on the farm.

It's a chance to slow down, breathe country air, and see one of the most charming and talked-about farms on the East Coast through the eyes of the people who run it.

Includes:

• Overnight stay at the Mama Farm B&B for up to 6 guests
• Private guided farm tour
• Trip to the beautiful wool shop and gallery of artist Mimi Prober
• Private class 

RETAIL VALUE: $3,000

Mama Farm

Mama Farm is a 28-acre farm in Brookhaven, New York, protected by a conservation easement. Overseen by executive director, Elettra Wiedemann, and founded in 2013 by actress, Isabella Rossellini, Mama Farm aims to foster the next generation of environmental stewards. We do this through education and preservation of biodiversity which come to life through our member CSA (community supported agriculture), and one-of-a-kind programming such as avant-garde films, theater, workshops and children’s activities.

In the spirit of Isabella’s Italian heritage, Mama Farm is designed to be like an Italian piazza, a vibrant place for us and our members to share knowledge and inspire one another toward the common goal of preservation and rejuvenation of mother earth.

mamafarm.us

Gather your crew for a private workshop at TATTER, built around our archives. Choose hand quilting, embroidery, hand sewing, or basket weaving, and we'll open the collection just for you. An archivist will bring out pieces from the archive tied to your craft and share their stories, with related books from TATTER's library on hand for inspiration.

Then, over small bites, it's your turn. With history laid out on the table in front of you, you and your guests will make something of your own to take home. It's a birthday, team outing, or reunion unlike any other.

Includes:

• Private workshop for up to 15 guests at TATTER
• Your choice of hand-quilting, embroidery, hand-sewing, or basket weaving
• An archivist-led presentation of related pieces and their history
• Curated selections from the TATTER library
• All materials provided

 RETAIL VALUE: $3,000

TATTER

TATTER is a cultural arts organization that explores textiles to tell human stories & cultivate understanding.We are an organization on a mission to advance under-represented artists, promote learning, engage social questions, preserve heritage, and encourage joy.

We strive to celebrate, amplify, and preserve textile culture in the US and around the globe, resulting in a diverse and inclusive community of participants who learn from one another through their shared love of cloth.

tatter.org

Skills are best passed from hand to hand, an experienced instructor patiently guiding the beginner to find the rhythm of a craft. While we seek to offer an intimate and personal environment in our TATTER classes, there really is no substitute for the one-on-one attention that has turned from default to luxury in an era where so few are able to do those arts which were once the substance of daily life. 

In beginner embroidery, a TATTER staff teacher and embroidery artist will sit down with you and up to two people of your choosing, either at the TATTER library or in your home, and teach you the basics of embroidery. You will set the pace and are encouraged to bring examples of projects you would like to begin working on during the lesson. Your teacher will instruct you in best practices and encourage your creativity.

Includes: 

• Private workshop for up to 3 people at TATTER or in your home 
• All materials provided 

RETAIL VALUE: $300

TATTER

TATTER is a cultural arts organization that explores textiles to tell human stories & cultivate understanding. We are an organization on a mission to advance under-represented artists, promote learning, engage social questions, preserve heritage, and encourage joy.

We strive to celebrate, amplify, and preserve textile culture in the US and around the globe, resulting in a diverse and inclusive community of participants who learn from one another through their shared love of cloth.

tatter.org

Skills are best passed from hand to hand, an experienced instructor patiently guiding the beginner to find the rhythm of a craft. While we seek to offer an intimate and personal environment in our TATTER classes, there really is no substitute for the one-on-one attention that has turned from default to luxury in an era where so few are able to do those arts which were once the substance of daily life. 

In beginner hand-sewing, a TATTER staff teacher will sit down with you and up to two people of your choosing, either at the TATTER library or in your home, and teach you the basics of embroidery. You will set the pace and are encouraged to bring examples of projects you would like to begin working on during the lesson. Your teacher will instruct you in best practices and encourage your creativity. 

Includes: 

• Private workshop for up to 3 people at TATTER or in your home 
• All materials provided

RETAIL VALUE: $300

TATTER

TATTER is a cultural arts organization that explores textiles to tell human stories & cultivate understanding. We are an organization on a mission to advance under-represented artists, promote learning, engage social questions, preserve heritage, and encourage joy.

We strive to celebrate, amplify, and preserve textile culture in the US and around the globe, resulting in a diverse and inclusive community of participants who learn from one another through their shared love of cloth.

tatter.org

Skills are best passed from hand to hand, an experienced instructor patiently guiding the beginner to find the rhythm of a craft. While we seek to offer an intimate and personal environment in our TATTER classes, there really is no substitute for the one-on-one attention that has turned from default to luxury in an era where so few are able to do those arts which were once the substance of daily life. 

In beginner inkle weaving, a TATTER staff teacher will sit down with you and up to two people of your choosing, either at the TATTER library or in your home, and teach you the basics of embroidery. You will set the pace and are encouraged to bring examples of projects you would like to begin working on during the lesson. Your teacher will instruct you in best practices and encourage your creativity.

Includes:

• Private workshop for up to 3 people at TATTER or in your home 
• All materials provided 

RETAIL VALUE: $300

TATTER

TATTER is a cultural arts organization that explores textiles to tell human stories & cultivate understanding. We are an organization on a mission to advance under-represented artists, promote learning, engage social questions, preserve heritage, and encourage joy.

We strive to celebrate, amplify, and preserve textile culture in the US and around the globe, resulting in a diverse and inclusive community of participants who learn from one another through their shared love of cloth.

tatter.org

Skills are best passed from hand to hand, an experienced instructor patiently guiding the beginner to find the rhythm of a craft. While we seek to offer an intimate and personal environment in our TATTER classes, there really is no substitute for the one-on-one attention that has turned from default to luxury in an era where so few are able to do those arts which were once the substance of daily life. 

In beginner knitting, a TATTER staff teacher will sit down with you and up to two people of your choosing, either at the TATTER library or in your home, and teach you the basics of embroidery. You will set the pace and are encouraged to bring examples of projects you would like to begin working on during the lesson. Your teacher will instruct you in best practices and encourage your creativity. 

Includes: 

• Private workshop for up to 3 people at TATTER or in your home 
• All materials provided 

RETAIL VALUE: $300

TATTER

TATTER is a cultural arts organization that explores textiles to tell human stories & cultivate understanding. We are an organization on a mission to advance under-represented artists, promote learning, engage social questions, preserve heritage, and encourage joy.

We strive to celebrate, amplify, and preserve textile culture in the US and around the globe, resulting in a diverse and inclusive community of participants who learn from one another through their shared love of cloth.

tatter.org

Checkered pockets of colorful blue and warm beige in soft cotton handloom adorn the Amer Sujani Throw from Heirloom Nation. Handwoven in 100% cotton using the traditional Sujani weaving technique, which only a handful of artisans still practice in the whole world, the Amer throw is designed to add warmth and traditional artistry to any space. Generously sized to serve as a single coverlet, each piece is finished with neat edging on all sides and adorned with four large handmade tassels at each corner, signatures of our Mosaic collection. 

Divya Sharma, founder and creative director of Heirloom Nation works with craftspeople from across India to preserve specific heritage crafts and techniques. These blankets are created using the very rare,  traditional weaving technique, Sujana, from Bharuch Gujarat. Although textiles made using this technique may appear "quilted" (material is joined together using rows of stitches), in Sujani, two layers of cloth are actually interlocked on a handloom and stuffed with cotton simultaneously without using a needle or stitch. 

RETAIL VALUE: $600 

Checkered pockets of colorful pink and warm beige in soft cotton handloom adorn the Amer Sujani Throw from Heirloom Nation. Handwoven in 100% cotton using the traditional Sujani weaving technique, which only a handful of artisans still practice in the whole world, the Amer throw is designed to add warmth and traditional artistry to any space. Generously sized to serve as a single coverlet, each piece is finished with neat edging on all sides and adorned with four large handmade tassels at each corner.

Divya Sharma, founder and creative director of Heirloom Nation works with craftspeople from across India to preserve specific heritage crafts and techniques. These blankets are created using the very rare,  traditional weaving technique, Sujana, from Bharuch Gujarat. Although textiles made using this technique may appear "quilted" (material is joined together using rows of stitches), in Sujani, two layers of cloth are actually interlocked on a handloom and stuffed with cotton simultaneously without using a needle or stitch. 

RETAIL VALUE: $600

Hand-woven textiles made slowly and in small batches in Stephanie Seal-Brown’s Hudson Valley studio. Woven from European linen and Egyptian cotton, they are exceptionally absorbent, improve with every wash, and are built to last for years of daily use. The Classic collection draws on memories growing up under the dappled shade of pecan trees and long summer afternoons lost in their branches

Working by hand rather than by machine means being present at every stage. Each inch of yarn passes through hands multiple times as it is prepared, wound, threaded, and woven. Small adjustments happen continuously in the color, the tension, the rhythm of the weave. This intimacy with the process leaves its mark on the finished textile in ways that are worth knowing how to see. 

Two things to look for in any hand-woven:

• The place where a yarn is doubled – where a new yarn was joined into the web to replace an empty bobbin or a knot in the warp. A small record of the making.
• The slight wave of a hand-pulled selvedge – the edge set by hand with each throw of the shuttle, creating a bound selvedge that can be highlighted rather than hidden.

Includes: 

• 2 hand towels in half natural 

RETAIL VALUE: $320

A sewing box is a world, a wild ecosystem, a thing of promise and potential. Beautiful tools, in the hands of a maker, make the making more joyful— fingers itch for a fine needle, an antique thimble pocked with decades of projects, a beeswax shape that smooths thread through fabric. There are buttons and snips and bobbins of lace waiting nestled and longing for what your hands will make of them.

This antique wooden sewing box with four drawers and glass knobs has been painstakingly restored. The drawers are lined with hand-printed paper. The scissor drawer is lined with red velvet and another, filled with a curated selection of Valdani threads, has a red velvet pincushion built into the back. Another drawer contains a needle minder and pins by Cohana, Japanese sashiko needles, and a beeswax cake wrapped in TATTER tissue paper. Inside the largest drawer is a collection of historical treasures: a vintage darner, rare antique Japanese indigo dyed fabrics, handmade lace and early machine-made lace, and sets of vintage buttons on TATTER designed cards. 

RETAIL VALUE: $650

The studio of a textile artist at work is often a garden of fabric scraps, small off-cuts and odd shapes, the negative image of a flower or the imprint of a bird’s open beak. Two artists joining hands across an expanse of cloth, translating sketch into stitch and fragment into feather. 

Nature’s Hand-Work, designed by Jordana Martin and stitched by Carina Rockart, translates that which is made by the natural world, and what is made by us as nature’s instruments. The fibers are grown and harvested, spun and woven, cut and recut, and stitched by hand into place, taking the ephemeral moment of a spring day and bringing it home to you in cloth. This is a one-of-a-kind original piece, irreplicable and uniquely yours. 

RETAIL VALUE: $1,500

Hand-selected by TATTER founder Jordana Martin, each of these exhibition catalogues is a vibrant celebration of textile art and material culture. Each catalogue is an extension of an exhibition, a more intimate look at the people and cultures examined in the art; it is a scholarly reference, artistic inspiration, a conversation starter, a soul-nourishing collection of works, past and present.

In this collection, you will find four substantial texts. The first, published by the Bard Graduate Center, is Sonia Delaunay: Living Art. It features images of 200 objects secured from major international lenders, reflecting Delaunay’s kaleidoscopic output through all periods of her career; from the early Parisian avant-garde of the 1910s to the spirited 1970s. The second is Chinese Patchwork, a Museum of Fine Arts Boston publication which explores the creativity of 20th- and 21st-century Chinese makers who stitch fabric remnants into functional, decorative and auspicious articles for use in their homes and by their families. This text displays a wide variety of designs, patterns and techniques. The third is Gee's Bend: the Women and Their Quilts. Published in conjunction with the exhibition, The Quilts of Gee's Bend, and organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, this out-of-print book details almost two centuries of quilt-making by women of Gee's Bend in southern Alabama. It includes 350 color illustrations, 30 black-and-white illustrations, and charts of their quilts. Finally, Fiber: Sculpture 1960–present is a catalogue from an exhibition of the same name at the Institute of Contemporary Arts Boston. It explores the development of abstraction and dimensionality in fiber art from the mid-twentieth century through to the present. This text addresses the cultural and critical forces that contributed to the initial efflorescence of the fiber revolution in the mid-century, its contraction in the 1980s, and its recent reclamation by contemporary artists. 

RETAIL VALUE: $420

A beautiful meal is the work of many hands: the maker of the menu, the crafter of the food, the setter of the table. When shared with loved ones, the nourishment is as spiritual as it is physical. Make your table a visual feast with hand-spun, hand-woven, and hand-embroidered personalized table napkins. As part of your bid, you will work with Brooklyn-based embroidery artist Chika Cuy to make a unique, original, and usable conversation piece for your dinner parties.The napkins are made by Auntie Oti, a textile company which started in 2011 with the mission to spotlight traditional "non-designed" everyday Indian items; blankets and shawls, towels and napkins, men's lungis and women's saris-made from khadi: fabric made from hand-spun yarn by craftspeople in small, government-sponsored hand weaving groups all across the country.

Your choice of embroidery by Chika Cuy can be up to two square inches and draw from her existing designs or one you create together.

Includes: 

• 4 hand-spun, hand-woven, and hand-embroidered personalized table napkins 

RETAIL VALUE: $150