Embroidery Social (free): Pasadena Heritage

A morning of creative connection and cultural celebration

Join us every four Saturdays for rejuvenating mornings with , set in some of Los Angeles’ most inspiring locations. This is more than an embroidery gathering—it's a sanctuary where creativity, community, and cultural storytelling come alive through needle and thread. Whether you're just beginning or have been stitching for years, you're invited to bring a project or start something new, and immerse yourself in a circle that nurtures both skill and soul.

Learn more on our new website about this series: https://www.folklounge.com/embroidery-social

Urban Sanctuary

Pasadena Heritage, Pasadena CA: Founded in 1977 during California's preservation awakening, this organization safeguards the architectural and craft traditions that established Pasadena as America's preeminent arts colony at the turn of the twentieth century. Beyond advocacy protecting individual landmarks, Heritage maintains the Craftsman Weekend tour program opening private homes, artist studios, and historic gardens where Greene & Greene and their contemporaries developed organic architecture principles that rippled across the nation. Educational programming connects preservation with living practice—workshops on historic tile-making, walking tours through craftspeople's cooperative neighborhoods, lectures on bungalow court urbanism. Their archives preserve design drawings and oral histories documenting how Pasadena's confluence of climate, patronage, and cross-cultural exchange produced innovations in furniture craft, ceramic arts, and landscape design. Through hands-on engagement with materials and sites, Heritage transforms preservation from nostalgic protection into active study of how craft traditions adapt and how historic design principles address contemporary needs for beauty, sustainability, and human-scaled community. Park for free in the back of the building through the back street and enter through the front door.
✥✥✥ "Every stitch carries a whisper from the past, a light from the future. I created this series to connect generations through shared spaces where we can learn, create, and celebrate together. With roots in Armenian and Russian culture, I’m drawn to the language of ornament—and when I started embroidery, I knew it would be far more joyful as a collective experience." — Shagho, Founder

Threads Of Legacy

Shagho is a multidisciplinary design leader, artist, and cultural practitioner who works at the frontiers of innovation and community. As founder of Folk Lounge, she facilitates cultural programming to study the grammar of ornament known for Embroidery Socials across LA parks to explore how traditional craft practices foster community, continue cultural preservation in contemporary urban settings, connect us with land and encourage being. Born in Vladivostok, of Armenian and Russian heritage, she holds a BS in Fashion Design and an MFA in Human-Computer Interaction from California College of the Arts. She believes in the power of collective making to weave new connections between past wisdom and future possibility.

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