Add personality to your clothes while saving the planet! Push back against the throw-away fashion trend, and learn how to give old clothes new life with visible mending.
Visible mending uses many approaches to restore old, used or torn clothing and fabric items. It’s both a creative process, a relaxing and meditative practice, and a way to demonstrate a commitment to sustainability by reducing waste and pollution.
Join us as Catherine Karp leads a workshop, where she will demonstrate how to use embroidery, patching and darning techniques to restore and revive damaged or worn out textiles. Beginners will leave with a sampler including the five basic stitches along with three ways to patch.
Class take home kit includes; a pair of Olympus Brand Sashiko needles, one skein of DMC 6 strand embroidery thread, 1 skein of Sashiko thread, one spool of Perle cotton, one spool of wool, a tapestry needle threader, and a few fabric scraps for mending.
In the class access to all the communal tools and materials; a variety of threads including colorful Sashiko threads, fabric markers, pencils, thimbles, scissors, needles, and plenty of scraps for your mending projects.
Please be sure to wear your good reading glasses.
ALL skill levels welcome!
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Free!
We are so excited to host our friends from Mei Mei Dumplings again - whose delicious dumplings and more will be available for purchase and sampling at their pop-up in Curio's Lab on March 1st! Stop by to sample and also get dumpling packs, swag & cookbooks to take home!
About Mei Mei:
Farm-Focused. Woman-Owned. Mei Mei's unconventional dumpling combinations showcase our love for great New England ingredients along with a pursuit of what tastes delicious. We use pasture-raised meat that is sourced from independent family-farms and source 70% of our produce from the Northeast.
Chef Irene Li co-founded Mei Mei with her siblings in 2012 as a food truck. "Mei Mei” means little sister in Mandarin Chinese and Mei Mei food is an expression of the Li siblings’ favorite childhood eating experiences as Chinese-American kids growing up in Boston. In 2020, Irene teamed up with Babson MBA graduates Alyssa Lee and Annie Campbell to lead the business in its transformation into a Dumpling Factory, Cafe, and Classroom.
Free!
Art by Samira Louise creates one-of-a-kind illustrations designed to offer you a fun, whimsical escape from every day life.
About Samira Louise:
My name is Samira Louise. I’m an illustrator from Massachusetts.
In my artwork I love to depict scenes of tranquillity and relaxation. Life can leave us tightly strung and it’s so important to have an escape. My goal is that someone finds peace in my little mermaid worlds just like I do.
FREE!
Come meet Nikki of portoula - a local business featuring artisanal, handcrafted products from Greece. Featuring single origin, artisanal honeys from Greece and other joy-inducing treasures from Greece such as colorful, hand felted shawls/scarves and gorgeous, meticulously handcrafted jewelry designs – this will be a feast for ALL the senses. Join us!
This is an open-house style event (tickets are available but not required to attend!), where guests are invited to come say hello to a local, like-minded business in Curio's lab space. Stop by for as long as you like!
Ready for some serious spice exploration? Delve into the enchanting world of spice blending with Claire Cheney, Curio's founder!
She’ll introduce you to our flavor theory and the principles that we use to make the exquisite blends we’re known for. Claire will guide you through tasting different spices and teach you about flavor and aroma. She will demonstrate blending techniques and discuss how attention to details such as texture and color can make a blend sing. And, Claire will share insider knowledge about layering flavor, roasting spices, grinding, sensory analysis, and training your palate.
In the hands-on portion of this class, you’ll make one of Curio’s classic blends plus create a blend of your own from our spice cupboard of over 80 intriguing spices. You’ll head home with Curio's Spice Flavor Wheel, blending recipes, and jars of the two blends you made during class. Join us for this wonder-filled evening! This is a small class, limited to 15 participants. Sign up today to reserve your spot!
FREE!
We are excited to welcome Koy Pantry back to the lab!
Koy Pantry is a Boston area based brand (run by longtime friends of Curio) that specializes in artisanal, small batch pantry products from Turkey. Co-founded by three friends who wanted to share high-quality ingredients, Koy Pantry works with small producers in Southeastern Turkey to source their products. By working directly with producers, they are able to offer products that have an emphasis on seasonality and traditional production methods dating back to early Anatolian civilizations. In turn, they offer farmers greater financial security.
Join Koy Pantry at Curio Spice and meet the faces behind the brand. They will have samples of dishes highlighting their products, recipes and stories of their time back home and the passion they have for Anatolian food.
Ready for some serious spice exploration? Delve into the enchanting world of spice blending with instructor Susan Turner!
She’ll introduce you to our flavor theory and the principles that we use to make the exquisite blends we’re known for. Susan will guide you through tasting different spices and teach you about flavor and aroma. She will demonstrate blending techniques and discuss how attention to details such as texture and color can make a blend sing. And, Susan will share insider knowledge about layering flavor, roasting spices, grinding, sensory analysis, and training your palate.
In the hands-on portion of this class, you’ll make one of Curio’s classic blends plus create a blend of your own from our spice cupboard of over 80 intriguing spices. You’ll head home with Curio's Spice Flavor Wheel, blending recipes, and jars of the two blends you made during class. Join us for this wonder-filled evening! This is a small class, limited to 15 participants. Sign up today to reserve your spot!
