William T.
Yelp
Came here with my inlaws recently and I was kind of underwhelmed. I still don't really understand why this place is called the FABRIC Workshop and Museum when the exhibits have virtually no fabric! We started on the first floor, and there were a few framed pieces of fabric with some cool info about them - so far, so good. After that, though, things went downhill. The rest of the first floor had a large seating area where a video was being shown of some woman wearing a pumpkin on her head creating life out of another pumpkin headed creature (which I think ended up being the same woman, maybe). Sound weird? I kind of liked it but the video kept going and I wanted to see FABRIC-related content (at the FABRIC Workshop and Museum), so we journeyed up to the second floor.
What awaited us? Another video with the same actress doing a weird monologue! This one was basically a series of statements like (and I'm making this one up): "I'm Pepsi and I'm Coke, and I'm the man who drops your coat." Just imagine stuff like that for ten minutes plus and you have a sense of the exhibit. there were also some animations of a depressed looking cartoon projected on the walls - maybe his pajamas were fabric-related, I guess?
Finally, we moved onto the eighth floor, and I actually really liked the exhibit up there (cool grotesque sculptures that used injury to indicate cultural isolation, I think) but it once again had nothing to do with fabric.
There's no entry fee, which is nice. Overall, I guess I would have given this place three stars if the name was more representative of the content, but we left feeling disappointed. One of our guests specifically chose to come here because she was interested in fabrics and really wanted to learn more about them, so obviously she was annoyed. Anyway, maybe come check it out if you're in the area, but prepare for lots of non-fabric content!