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Designed for Creative Play

Explore creative living through workshops and hand crafted products made in small batches from rescued materials.

Now booking private creative lessons and parties for all levels.

 
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Booking Spring Lessons:

Let’s make things together! You can book now through my Setmore Calendar- open for Spring 2024 books for the short window, and once full, will close for the season! Book up to 3 months in advance to get going on your sewing, dyeing or creative project this spring! Lessons can be one-on-one where we work on your project of choice together, or a Group Session where you get friends together for a Creative Play party- Indigo dye, sewing, printing, etc- Great for private parties. The possibilities are endless! Let’s get together and make something!

 

River’s Favorite Things

 
 

2024 Celestial Calendars

Now ON SALE! Our annual classic with a new twist: Presenting the Moon Garden border calendar with lunar cycles, meteor showers, seasonal changes and more!

 

Mini Moon Bag

One of River’s favorite things, the purse she carries around everywhere! Made from 100% rescued materials: leather samples, deadstock zippers, and army surplus webbing for the strap.

 

Vulva Pillows

Our best sellers: Novelty pillows made with hand dyed fabric, vintage and new fabrics with lots of mixed textures. The perfect gift! Next collection releasing Summer 2024.

 

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RIVTAK Handmade

River Takada is a Japanese American mixed media artist, based in Durham, NC.

River’s work is known for embracing the spirit of re-use; using high quality remnant materials left behind by local textile factories. In small batches, Rivtak products are designed with little to zero waste.  Each piece is carefully crafted around a purpose... adornment and awareness. The artist is always experimenting with new materials and offers a variety of creative workshops, sharing her Japanese and American textile heritage.

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Textile & mixed media workshops

 

Indigo Dye Workshops

Sewing Workshops

Kids workshops

Other workshops

Want to learn how to sew?

River has been teaching kids and adults for over 12 years!

 
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Post 3 of 3. Announcing the new section of our offerings we are currently fundraising for- Custom made screens for printing on fabric, paper and more! We’re fundraising for at MiScreen machine, made by RISO Japan, It’ll transfer images f
Post 2 of 3. Some new faces here, thanks for tuning in folks! My name is River Takada and I’m a maximalist. My talents include starting projects and getting hype over just about anything, and I’m cursed with self-doubt, amongst other th
Post 1 of 3. All these photos I’ve saved over the years from people sharing! Scroll through to see workshops and patches that folks printed or purchased over the past 4 years. I’ve really been missing in-person workshops- I’ve bee
I’m back to social media! Post 3 of 3 Hello internet- I had the joy of sitting for @sasss.world back in December for her Fantasy Series- every few years I like to book a photo shoot just for myself to document this mortal body. During my sm
I’m back to social media! Post 2 of 3 Let’s be real- I wasn’t totally unplugged from my phone. I wanted to shift my focus away from comparing myself to other people’s fancy photos by appreciating my own work, memories and a
I’m back to social media! Post 1 of 3. At the beginning of January, I started a social media detox. I planned one week off IG, tiktok, Pinterest and Tumblr- these time draining scrolling apps were deleted off my phone. 7 days turned into a f
I love this on from my shoot with @shootwithbliss out at my storage unit studio in Durham. On the other side of that fence is a flood water retaining pool and I love watching all the nature that happens around there. 🐸🦆🦗🦅 One more photo set just
My favorite thing to make right now: Vulva Pillows. Getting to see and combine all the different textures and layers. More to come in future. Excuse me while I take a short social media detox and sew some stuff! In these shots I’m pinning tog
Thank you all for showing support to myself, other artists and small businesses this year! I’ve got a few things planned to grow this love craft and share more of the process as I go! Even though it’s been hard to pivot away from my com
I have a bad habit (more of a cycle), where I over plan something, try to prevent any problems by thinking of every single risk that could happen. AND THEN I get planning fatigue and just drop the ball on the follow through. It’s frustrating ho
I’ve been indulging myself with lots of art therapy- mostly I’ve been experimenting with color! Lots of color- super saturated vibrant synthetic color. Using whatever fabric I can find in my stash, thrift stores, donations and factory re
Staying cozy at home. Going over how far we’ve come and how far there is still to go. Lots of hot chocolate and comforting movies. 📷 @shootwithbliss