{"product_id":"tatter-reading-group-1","title":"TATTER Reading Group","description":"\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003eWhat does it mean to make something by hand? How does the act of making—slow, tactile, attentive—shape the way we think, relate, and imagine our worlds?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003eTATTER Reading Group invites you into a shared exploration of craft, creativity, and meaning. Together we’ll read a mix of essays, fiction, memoir, and myth, considering how acts of making—woven, stitched, written, worn—become ways of thinking and being. Each session will include guided discussion and, when it feels right, optional time for generative writing or simple hands-on making inspired by the readings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003eWe’ll meet once a month for three sessions, with plans to reconvene in the fall. You’re warmly invited to join us in person at the library or virtually. Online participants may listen live and contribute observations or questions via chat, which will be woven into the conversation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e_____________________________________________________________________________\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSession 1: Labor and Garment\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003eReading: “The Threaded Needle” by Merce Rodore or “The New Dress” by Virginia Woolf\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003eReturning to the relationship between sewist and garment, we’ll read “The Threaded Needle” by Merece Rodoreda, who worked as a seamstress to support herself while in exile from Barcelona during Franco’s rule in the mid- to later-20th Century. If time permits, we can connect back to Woolf, whose “The New Dress” also considers the seamstress but from the position of the person wearing the dress rather than the one making it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWe’ll explore:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy do we sew garments and how does this shape our relationship to them?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat’s in the space between maker and garment made?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat are the social expectations of garments and what do they reflect about the makers and wearers?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSession 2: Poems About Making\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003eReadings: Anne Boyer’s “Garments Against Women” by Anne Boyer, “Placebo” by Mei-Mei Bersenbrugge, “Tender Buttons” by Gertrude Stein, and “Poem to my Yellow Coat” by Lucille Clifton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003eThis session will focus on poetry and the various forms and language poets have used to write about garments.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWe’ll explore:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow do these poems, with their various innovations of language, give unusual views of garments and making?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCan poetic forms of writing be a method for thinking about our own textile practices?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat are the language and forms of writing involved in our own making practices?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eSession 3: Sewn Identity\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003eReading: “Troubling Love” by Elena Ferrante \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003eIn session, we’ll talk about how the narrator of Ferrante’s novel attempts to understand her mother through the clothing that she had associated with her and the clothing that she is surprised by finding after her mother’s death.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWe’ll explore:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow are memories of loved ones shaped by the things they make and wear?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow can clothing be a personal history? \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat is inherited through a hand-made wardrobe?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Tatter","offers":[{"title":"VIRTUAL Full Series","offer_id":52048916644161,"sku":null,"price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"IN PERSON Full Series","offer_id":52048916676929,"sku":null,"price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"VIRTUAL Session 1: Labor and Garment","offer_id":52048908058945,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"IN PERSON Session 1: Labor and Garment","offer_id":52048907927873,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"VIRTUAL Session 2: Poems About Making","offer_id":52048916709697,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"IN PERSON Session 2: Poems About Making","offer_id":52048916742465,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"VIRTUAL Session 3: Sewn Identity","offer_id":52048916775233,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"IN PERSON Session 3: Sewn Identity","offer_id":52048916808001,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0678\/3195\/5777\/files\/Screenshot_2026-08-03_at_5.57.15_PM.png?v=1785794332","url":"https:\/\/shop.tatter.org\/products\/tatter-reading-group-1","provider":"Tatter","version":"1.0","type":"link"}