TATTER READING GROUP Session 3: Making What We Wear with Vanessa Baish
June 14 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT
What 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?
TATTER’s first ever TATTER 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.
Reading: Bound: A Memoir of Making and Remaking by Maddie Ballard
This contemporary collection of essays reflects on clothing as an intimate site of identity, pleasure, and transformation. Through sewing and remaking garments, Ballard examines how what we wear tells—and reshapes—our stories.
We’ll explore:
- What stories do our clothes carry—especially the ones we’ve made or altered ourselves?
- How does the act of making something to wear shape our sense of identity, pleasure, or agency?
- In what ways can remaking a garment become a way of revising or reclaiming a personal narrative?
