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Factory Case Study: Creative Legion - Made X Hudson
Factory Case Study: Creative Legion
How Hudson’s (Creative Legion) members club worked with our Catskill atelier on a custom run of Japanese denim pencil cases for their one-year anniversary gift box. Read more...
One Leg at a Time: My Journey of Learning to Make Trousers by Alex Todaro - Made X Hudson
One Leg at a Time: My Journey of Learning to Make Trousers by Alex Todaro
One of the things we love most about our Catskill studio is that it's never just a factory. On any given Thursday afternoon when we have Open Studio, you'll find... Read more...
Host Something Unforgettable in the Hudson Valley - Made X Hudson
Host Something Unforgettable in the Hudson Valley
Private event bookings at Made X Hudson in Catskill, NY Read more...
Q&A with Moth Snow of Touch Threads - Made X Hudson
Q&A with Moth Snow of Touch Threads
We’re so excited to welcome Moth Snow to Made X Hudson on June 20th for an afternoon blockprinting workshop from 2–5pm. Moth is a Kingston-based folk-naturalist painter whose work spans... Read more...
Where Our Fabric Scraps Go: A Q&A with Helpsy - Made X Hudson
Where Our Fabric Scraps Go: A Q&A with Helpsy
Made X Hudson partners with Helpsy to keep fabric scraps out of landfills. Learn how textile recycling works, what happens to donated clothes, and how you can help. Read more...
Q&A with Sherri Cohen: Jewelry Designer, Eco Dyer & Painter - Made X Hudson
Q&A with Sherri Cohen: Jewelry Designer, Eco Dyer & Painter
Nestled in the heart of the Hudson Valley, we sat down with Kingston-based artisan, Sherri Cohen, to talk about her handcrafted jewelry, eco-printed textiles, and Judaica that are deeply rooted... Read more...
Q&A with Surface Designer & Author, Jen Hewett - Made X Hudson
Q&A with Surface Designer & Author, Jen Hewett
We’re thrilled to welcome Hudson Valley–based surface designer and author, Jen Hewett, to Made X Hudson for a special Intro to Embroidery workshop. Jen doesn’t teach in person often these... Read more...
Made X Hudson's Guide to a Hudson Valley Getaway - Made X Hudson
Made X Hudson's Guide to a Hudson Valley Getaway
Planning a weekend in the upper Hudson Valley? Here's a guide for exploring around Made X Hudson. Our two sister locations are just 10 minutes apart in the historic towns... Read more...
Maker Q&A: Caroline of Too Tomboy - Made X Hudson
Maker Q&A: Caroline of Too Tomboy
We are so proud to present Too Tomboy. Our team has been working with the founder, Caroline, for the last year to help her develop her line from concept to... Read more...
The Zero-Waste "Kimmy" Dress: More Than a Garment - Made X Hudson
The Zero-Waste "Kimmy" Dress: More Than a Garment
Some dresses are more than garments—they're tributes, memories made tangible, and celebrations of lives beautifully lived. A Loss, A Walk, A Window In March 2024, designer and creative consultant, Liz... Read more...
MXH Book Club: Our 2025 Wrap - Made X Hudson
MXH Book Club: Our 2025 Wrap
We’re wrapping up our first year of Book Club—and already looking ahead to year two. We knew 2025 would be a politically and culturally turbulent year, so from the beginning,... Read more...
Maker Q&A: Christopher Nahas - Made X Hudson
Maker Q&A: Christopher Nahas
This blog post has been nearly four years in the making. We began working with Christopher Nahas in the early days of our atelier, when he came to us with... Read more...
Comfort Meets Polish: How to Dress for Holiday Feasting - Made X Hudson
Comfort Meets Polish: How to Dress for Holiday Feasting
Dressing for the holidays can mean a wide range of things, from casual to formal, and from at-home to on-the-town. Today, we want to talk about the cozy gatherings —... Read more...
Maker Q&A: Maddie West of Sloppy Seconds NYC - Made X Hudson
Maker Q&A: Maddie West of Sloppy Seconds NYC
WHEN DESIGNER Maddie West first approached us about carrying her reworked vintage line Sloppy Seconds NYC, we loved what she was doing and requested a box of garments to try... Read more...
Pivoting Toward Fall (and Back Again!) - Made X Hudson
Pivoting Toward Fall (and Back Again!)
We recently received two of these chic little cotton trench jackets (reworked vintage) from Sherri Cohen Design — with her trademark addition of eco-printed flora — and began styling a... Read more...
Factory Case Study: From Sheep to Street: A Collaboration with the Hudson Valley Textile Project - Made X Hudson
Factory Case Study: From Sheep to Street: A Collaboration with the Hudson Valley Textile Project
AT MADE X HUDSON, we’re passionate about showing what’s possible when local materials, skilled makers and thoughtful design come together. This NY Textile Month, we are reflecting on our relationship... Read more...
Maker Q&A: Michiyo Shinohara of Shino NYC - Made X Hudson
Maker Q&A: Michiyo Shinohara of Shino NYC
WHEN WE WERE first introduced to Michiyo Shinohara — aka Shino, of the brand Shino NYC — by one of our beloved vendors, we were blown away by her work.... Read more...
Harvest Vibes - Made X Hudson
Harvest Vibes
We’re thrilled that you’re as amused by these Made X Reworked carrot shirts we are — and with harvest vibes vibing, we’re leaning into it for this latest look! We’ve... Read more...
Factory Case Study: JUPITER Motorcycle-Forward Apparel - Made X Hudson
Factory Case Study: JUPITER Motorcycle-Forward Apparel
Project: Pattern development and production for motorcycle garmentsClient: JUPITER™️Time frame: 2023-2024 IN EARLY 2023, via a referral from a mutual Hudson NY friend, Steven Sferlazza of JUPITER™️ came to us... Read more...
Maker Q&A: Kayla Donovan of Olga Ella - Made X Hudson
Maker Q&A: Kayla Donovan of Olga Ella
LAST YEAR, when we were participating in Hudson Valley Sustainable Fashion Week (you can see our collection here), we were all especially wowed by one of the other designers’ collections:... Read more...
Layer Up! - Made X Hudson
Layer Up!
We’ve got lots of easy little dresses that make a great base for between-seasons layering — e.g. our entire MXH Chore Dress collection — but we just got in these... Read more...
Factory Case Study: Custom Staff Aprons for Klocke Estate - Made X Hudson
Factory Case Study: Custom Staff Aprons for Klocke Estate
Project: Custom Reversible Canvas Aprons for Front-of-House StaffClient: Klocke EstateTime frame: Spring 2024 WHEN THE people behind the new Hudson Valley vineyard, orchard and distillery Klocke Estate were planning their... Read more...
Q&A: Katrina Rodabaugh on Sustainability, Art and Visible Mending - Made X Hudson
Q&A: Katrina Rodabaugh on Sustainability, Art and Visible Mending
THIS SEPTEMBER, we’ll have the immense pleasure of hosting our friend and client Katrina Rodabaugh as she teaches her wildly popular, introductory Visible Mending Workshop in our beautiful Catskill space.... Read more...
Transitional Season Chic - Made X Hudson
Transitional Season Chic
One of our favorite looks is a blazer with shorts, and it’s the perfect thing when summer is lingering but you’re longing for fall. Without the jacket, this is a... Read more...
Maker Q&A: Jennifer Wilkerson of Brosgé Clothing - Made X Hudson
Maker Q&A: Jennifer Wilkerson of Brosgé Clothing
WE FIRST MET Jennifer Wilkerson of Brosgé when she came to talk to us about whether our factory might be of help to her on the development side of things.... Read more...
Custom Case Study: Alterations, Made to Order and Customizations, All For One closet! - Made X Hudson
Custom Case Study: Alterations, Made to Order and Customizations, All For One closet!
We do alterations and create custom clothes for people on a regular basis, and it’s always an honor, but we recently had an especially epic time making seven pieces for... Read more...
Summer Stripes on Stripes - Made X Hudson
Summer Stripes on Stripes
It’s HOT around here — that time of year where it’s a struggle to stay cool but look cute while doing it. We just got in this ridiculously chic little... Read more...
Inside the NY Fashion Innovation Center Conference: Charting the Future of Textiles in New York State - Made X Hudson
Inside the NY Fashion Innovation Center Conference: Charting the Future of Textiles in New York State
This past month, we participated in the New York Fashion Innovation Center’s internal conference, held over two focused days on June 16th and 17th, 2025, at RPI’s campus in Troy... Read more...
Bermuda Shorts: The Ultimate Shareable Staple Garment - Made X Hudson
Bermuda Shorts: The Ultimate Shareable Staple Garment
Bermuda shorts are definitely the “it“ short of the summer, but we love them for their timelessness — and their shareability potential. We particularly like our Made X Hudson Bermuda... Read more...
Effortless Style: The Matched Set of Your Dreams - Made X Hudson
Effortless Style: The Matched Set of Your Dreams
One of the easiest ways to look put together with little or no effort is a Matched Set. Sets are arguably even better than one-pieces (although we love those too!)... Read more...
Quite Literally Our Biggest Project Yet: Transgender Pride Flag for Big Gay Hudson Valley - Made X Hudson
Quite Literally Our Biggest Project Yet: Transgender Pride Flag for Big Gay Hudson Valley
Project: Giant Transgender Pride FlagClient: Big Gay Hudson ValleyTime frame: Spring 2025 This Spring we had the honor of working on a factory project very near and dear to our... Read more...
A Retro-Modern Meet Cute - Made X Hudson
A Retro-Modern Meet Cute
Sometimes an outfit presents itself as if it were fated to be. When this shimmery Tracey Reese skirt arrived from Chambers Vintage at the same time as the appliquéd plaid... Read more...
Pockets to Spare - Made X Hudson
Pockets to Spare
Whether you’re Spring cleaning, manning a booth at a fair, or working front of house, you want an apron to be both hardworking and good-looking. And a great apron not... Read more...
Box Top and Box Pleats - Made X Hudson
Box Top and Box Pleats
We just got a batch of freshly sewn box tops from our friend Cheryl at The Highlands Foundry and think they’re a perfect pairing with our box-pleated MXH Wide-Leg Pants.... Read more...
The Made X Hudson Mix: New, Vintage and Reworked - Made X Hudson
The Made X Hudson Mix: New, Vintage and Reworked
MADE X HUDSON is a sustainbility-focused fashion company that started with a small garment factory and has expanded into two slow-fashion boutiques — which are just not like other stores.... Read more...
Meet Regina, our Vintage-Fabric Fairy Godmother - Made X Hudson
Meet Regina, our Vintage-Fabric Fairy Godmother
ONE OF THE best days in the short history of Made X Hudson was the day our now-beloved friend Regina first walked into our Catskill shop — sent over by... Read more...
Beach Bag No. 1 : 8 garments, 20+ looks - Made X Hudson
Beach Bag No. 1 : 8 garments, 20+ looks
Last week we posted our tips for How to Pack Light (for the Beach!) and offered an easy formula for putting together a travel capsule wardrobe that will offer you... Read more...
How to Pack Light (for the Beach!) - Made X Hudson
How to Pack Light (for the Beach!)
Contrary to popular opinion, we think of packing light as more of a learned skill than an art form — especially when packing for the beach or any other warm-weather... Read more...
Sunny Side Up - Made X Hudson
Sunny Side Up
This cheerful Spring outfit appeared in our Catskill shop window (and thus in Shop the Shopgirls) but we loved it so much we wanted to preserve it here on the blog.... Read more...
Four-Season Gems - Made X Hudson
Four-Season Gems
Made from an easygoing hemp-cotton canvas, our Made X Hudson Wide-Leg Pants (made above our Catskill shop) are a true four-season pant in most climates — as cute with sandals... Read more...
A Walk in the Park - Made X Hudson
A Walk in the Park
In flowy linen, our Made X Hudson Wide-Leg Pants (made right here in Catskill) invoke all the expressions about pleasant simplicity: easy breezy, a walk in the park and so... Read more...
Between-Season Wardrobe Heroes - Made X Hudson
Between-Season Wardrobe Heroes
Talk about effortless — these three pieces are each perfect for those between-season times, but tossed on together they look so easy and chic. The jacket is another from our Indoor-Outdoor... Read more...
Perfect Spring Outfit Template - Made X Hudson
Perfect Spring Outfit Template
Continuing our Indoor-Outdoor Jackets theme, we’ve been wearing our Sloppy Seconds reworked vintage army liners indoors all Winter as cardigans, then slipping a coat over them (as befits their original... Read more...
Alterations and Bespoke Clothing: Three Great Case Studies - Made X Hudson
Alterations and Bespoke Clothing: Three Great Case Studies
WE’VE LOVED all the great feedback on Eric’s bedspread-turned-outfit and wanted to collect a few more great alterations and custom-made clothing stories here on the blog that we’ve shared on... Read more...
Modern Day Crochet - Made X Hudson
Modern Day Crochet
Cheryl of The Highlands Foundry is one of our beloved local makers — she designs and sews each garment herself from vintage and heritage textiles, so every piece is a... Read more...
Tried and True - Made X Hudson
Tried and True
We’re obsessed with the patchwork denim jumpsuits we recently got in from Hudson Valley maker Olga Ella. So much so that we immediately pulled one of them into the outfits... Read more...
Fade to White - Made X Hudson
Fade to White
Ever since KC of Krop Jeans brought us these (size 34x30) vintage Wrangler jeans so beautifully ombré dyed, we’ve been dying to pull the fade effect all the way upwards by... Read more...
Warm and Spring-y - Made X Hudson
Warm and Spring-y
Maybe it’s Spring Fever, but we’re really feeling the soft pinks with nutty browns lately. (See also: Pretty in Pink) This look centers on the incredible hand-woven and quilted, sweatshirt-style... Read more...
Q&A: Clare Herron of Clare Bare lingerie - Made X Hudson
Q&A: Clare Herron of Clare Bare lingerie
SHORTLY AFTER we first opened our Catskill shop, we had a visit from Upstate New York lingerie designer Clare Herron. She came back for one of our clothing swaps and... Read more...
Cozy at Home - Made X Hudson
Cozy at Home
Winter may not be letting up just yet, but that means more time to savor coziness while it lasts, right? And nothing is cozier than our Zero-Waste Reversible Capes. The... Read more...