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Habu Textiles and The Yarn Tree are putting together a day in the Hamptons! 

Our first stop will be at LongHouse (http://www.longhouse.org). Founded by Jack Lenor Larsen in 1970. It is a home, an art gallery, a sculpture garden and arboretum. We will be taking a private docent led tour of LongHouse. We will tour the gardens, the house and the gallery. This tour will run approximately 2 hours.

The current exhibition is 2004 - BENCHmark

Ladies and Gentlemen... Take Your Seats, Please! LHR's 2004 arts and garden exhibit sets the BENCHmark (standard) for garden seating. Organized by Jack Larsen and Associate Curator Wendy Van Deusen, this inventive show features fifty superb solutions to garden seating -- benches, settees, and stools, primarily contemporary in style, suitable for outdoors or garden areas such as patios and conservatories, public or residential.

The creators are designers and architects, artists and craftmakers, using wood, metals, stone and stoneware to produce pieces, both one-of-a-kind and made for production, from Hans Hokanson's redwood bench (1989) and Keizo Tsukada's mahogany bench, to Ron Rudnicki's granite slab (2000) and Young Sook Park's ceramic, iron glazed seating arrangement of square stools.

So take your seats, relax, and enjoy the quiet atmosphere of LongHouse Reserve from the million daffodils of spring to the serene green of late summer.

Lunch will once again be at The Fish Farm in Amagansett. It's been almost a year and people are still talking about the great food we were served!!! You will have a choice of either a hot dish, cold plate or vegetarian meal

After lunch we will travel on to to an Arts & Crafts Gallery (TBA).

Before we get on the highway we'll make one last stop at The Hayground Market Farm Stand. Here you'll be able to eat fresh roasted corn and pick up lovely fruits and vegetables to take back with you. (There is lots of room under the bus to store your goodies for the trip home!!)

We will be traveling on an air conditioned chartered bus with a restroom.

Bottled water will be available for all!!!

On the trip up we will be showing two rare Japanese videos.

One is on the making of Silk fabric – from reeling the silk from cocoons, to Indigo dyeing, to starching the yarn, weaving the fabric and all the steps in between. The other video is on the making of Ramie fabric – from cultivating the plant, to making yarn, to setting an Ikat pattern, weaving the fabric and the many steps in between. These are visually beautiful videos, really a must see!!!!!!!

As an added bonus The Yarn Tree and Habu Textiles will be providing 2 raffle prizes!!

Date: Saturday, August 7th
When: We will depart from Habu Textiles (135 West 29th Street) (between 6th & 7th) at 7:00 am. With summer traffic we should arrive in East Hampton by 10:00 am. I know 7:00 am is very early on a Saturday, but this trip is well worth the early hour!!! Plus you can all nap on the bus! We plan on departing The Hamptons at 5:00 pm and arriving back in Manhattan by 8:00 pm.
Cost: $100.00 per person, we will need a $50.00 deposit to hold your spot. This is a non refundable deposit unless we are able to sell your spot. Payment in Full must be received by August 5th.

You can sign up for the trip below, or stop by the shop to put a deposit down to hold your spot.

You are welcome to invite friends. The trip is limited to 45 people and we need to know who is planning on going as soon as possible. So, please call or stop by the shop.

Be sure to check out the photos from last year’s trip!

The Yarn Tree
347 Bedford Ave,
Brooklyn, NY 11211
(718) 384-8030
www.theyarntree.com

Habu Textiles
135 West 29th Street
Suite 804
NYC, NY
(212) 239-3546
www.habutextiles.com

Sign up for the 2004 trip now!

Check out our pictures from our 2003 Hamptons trip!