Threading Technology 2: Fugitive Interfaces
Visiting Artist Doug Jones leads an artist talk/ community craft exploration: Examines camouflage, abstraction, and maroon design, using opacity and concealment as strategies across textiles and digital systems.
Special Guest: Azzah Smith
Black Dandyism: Conversation + Showcase
Save the date for a special Black History Month event at Slow Stitch as we look at our relationship to clothing & identity as we explore the history of Black Dandyism: A Conversation, a celebration of—its history, artistry, and continued cultural impact.
This event brings together creatives, thinkers, and style leaders to honor self-expression, elegance, and resistance through fashion and performance, identity and the ways these shape our world.
Dress Code: Come in your best Dandy attire and proudly display what being a Dandy means to you!
Slow Stitch Resident showcase: featuring works by @drewberzzz @antoniomamon @_jpharos_ @harryrichclothier
Event is Saturday February 28th from 2-5pm at Slow Stitch Detroit: 8500 2nd Ave, Detroit 48202 Space is limited,
rsvp for your seat through link in bio. Free event. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1982581764427?aff=oddtdtcreator
Craft in Community
Cozy winter making at Slow Stitch. Enjoy hot tea, slow fashion films, and a calm, low-lit atmosphere for independent, communal creating. Bring your own project and work alongside other creatives in a relaxed, supportive space. Basic hand-sewing supplies provided; bring a small light if you need close-up lighting. This is not a class—just chill making together.
Sliding scale $5–15; paying $15 helps support equitable access. Space is limited—register on Eventbrite
Threading Technology 3: The Elder Algorithm
Visiting Artist Doug Jones leads an artist talk/ community craft exploration: Exploring memory, pattern, and quilting as data systems.
Special Guest: Carole Harris
Threading Technology 4: From Punch Card to Neural Net
Visiting Artist Doug Jones leads an artist talk/ community craft exploration: Explores Black textile automation and speculative AI futures, with a hands-on prompt-building workshop focused on demystifying AI and building community-centered tools.
Special Guest: Erin Reddick of ChatBlackGPT
Threading Technology 5: Movie Night ‘The Last Angel of History’
Visiting Artist Doug Jones closes out his Threading Technology artist series with the documentary ‘The Last Angel of History’ which explores Afrofuturism as a living archive, connecting Black music, technology, memory, and future-making.
Craft in Community
Cozy winter making at Slow Stitch. Enjoy hot tea, slow fashion films, and a calm, low-lit atmosphere for independent, communal creating. Bring your own project and work alongside other creatives in a relaxed, supportive space. Basic hand-sewing supplies provided; bring a small light if you need close-up lighting. This is not a class—just chill making together.
Sliding scale $5–15; paying $15 helps support equitable access. Space is limited—register on Eventbrite
Threading Technology 1: Warp-Weft-Code
Visiting Artist Doug Jones leads an artist talk/ community craft exploration: Explores craft as proto-computation, connecting the Jacquard loom, fiber as data, and the transmission of Black knowledge through migration, archives, and making.
Special Guest: Camile Ann Brewer.
Craft in Community
Cozy winter making at Slow Stitch. Enjoy hot tea, slow fashion films, and a calm, low-lit atmosphere for independent, communal creating. Bring your own project and work alongside other creatives in a relaxed, supportive space. Basic hand-sewing supplies provided; bring a small light if you need close-up lighting. This is not a class—just chill making together.
Sliding scale $5–15; paying $15 helps support equitable access. Space is limited—register on Eventbrite
Bike Clothing + Accessory SWAP
Back Alley Bikes + Slow Stitch come together to promote Slow/Sustainable living through biking! We’re excited to host the first of many events to help folks bike well, and gear is essential. For this bike clothing/accessories swap bring your cycling clothes, hats, clubs, frame bags, rain gear, base layers, etc. You’ll donate to the swap and also can take something. Feel free to bring items that are damaged/stained because we’ll host mending/repair & also upcycling at future workshops.
Grand Opening Holiday Market
Come shop Slow Fashion this holiday and find unique, thoughtful, consciously crafted gifts for your loved ones. Over 16 vendors to shop from. Meet the Slow Stitch artists in residence! Many artists take custom orders. Follow us on IG for sneak preview of some of the items that will be available.
Grand Opening Holiday Market
Come shop Slow Fashion this holiday and find unique, thoughtful, consciously crafted gifts for your loved ones. Over 16 vendors to shop from. Meet the Slow Stitch artists in residence! Many artists take custom orders. Follow us on IG for sneak preview of some of the items that will be available.
Grand Opening Holiday Market
Come shop Slow Fashion this holiday and find unique, thoughtful, consciously crafted gifts for your loved ones. Over 16 vendors to shop from. Meet the Slow Stitch artists in residence! Many artists take custom orders. Follow us on IG for sneak preview of some of the items that will be available.