Recap: Clawlab’s Tufting Pop-Up at the Rose Bowl, LA
On November 9th, 2025, Clawlab brought its tufting community to life at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. Fifty guests — artists, students, and design enthusiasts — gathered for a one-day open-air event that turned the stadium’s quiet lawn into a textured landscape of color, craft, and connection.
Talent: @firerugs, @craftykari_, @studiokuma, @minsta.la, @beyondtuft
Photography: Clawlab Creative Team & Friends
The morning opened quietly. Guests unpacked yarn and adjusted frames, coffee cups resting on the grass.
Designer Sophie guided a friend through her first tufting strokes, while Kevin, an architecture student from Pasadena, mapped geometric lines that soon drew a small crowd.
Across the field, Mina Park — visiting from San Francisco — worked on a gradient rug she described as “a little sunset to take home.” The air felt light, filled with soft conversation and the mechanical rhythm of tufting guns starting to hum.
The installations quickly became gathering points. More than twenty walk-bys stopped out of curiosity, asked questions, and even tried tufting for the first time — a reminder of how exciting it is to introduce this craft to people from all over.
At the center, a tufted tree shimmered in the afternoon light, inviting everyone to touch its texture. Beside it, a tufted cat den sparked laughter when someone joked about taking it home; Mina knelt beside it as Jason captured the moment. Nearby, a sofa-sized tufted piece turned into a casual social hub where visitors compared yarn colors, while hanging rugs along the perimeter swayed gently like an open-air gallery.
Small gestures carried the day — a shared scissor, a color suggestion, a laugh over uneven stitches. It wasn’t structured like a class or framed as a show; it felt more like a conversation unfolding through color and touch.
By late afternoon, familiar creators joined in — @firerugs demonstrating quick turns, @craftykari filming slow, looping shots of hands in motion, @beyondtuft observing quietly behind the lens. When someone called for a group photo, everyone lifted their rugs high — clouds, patterns, initials, abstract shapes — catching the last of the light. Fifty makers, one shared moment.
As the sun dipped low, yarn dust shimmered across the grass. Guests lingered, exchanging colors, contacts, and quiet reflections.
Sophie held her finished piece under her arm and smiled, “We all made something different, but somehow it feels like one big work.” The installations stood still as the field emptied — a tree, a den, a sofa — glowing faintly in the dusk.
For a few hours, the Rose Bowl became more than a venue: it became a meeting place for calm, tactile creativity。
Photos by Clawlab and friends.
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