Contact Us: tempestryproject@gmail.com
Contact Us: tempestryproject@gmail.com

The Tempestry Project is personal and collaborative fiber art, environmental education, and climate activism through data representation all rolled into a sprawling community of friends, artists, crafters, teachers, scientists, nature lovers, activists, and more.

Tempestry Project Yarn Fundraiser

Find your Temperature Starter Bundles, Tempestry Yarn, Tempestry Kits (Original, Original Mini, New Normal, Emotion), Patterns, TranquiliTea & Other Kits, Handknits, Needle Wranglers, and more!


At the Precipice: Responses to the Climate Crisis, at the Design Museum of Chicago through October 30th, features our Paleo New Normal and the collaborative Chicago Tempestry Collection. The Paleo, read from left to right, depicts 1CE-2021CE, each stripe showing annual global deviation from average temperature. The darker the blue, the colder than average the year and the darker the red, the warmer than average the year. Each Original Tempestry (hanging vertically) depicts a year of daily high temperatures for Chicago specifically, ranging from 1900 (on the left) to 2022 (on the right).


Tempestry Project at Columbia’s Earth Observatory Open House

We wanted to share some of our favorite photos of the Tempestry tent at Columbia University’s annual LDEO / Climate School Open House, from set up to before-the-crowds to our favorite part: talking about climate communication, tactile hands-on learning, and fiber art with a whole bunch of folks ranging from scientists to high school kids to itty bitty kiddos who really just liked the beads and yarn colors. 

This has been an annual event at Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory campus for decades, and we were so delighted to be a part of this year’s earth sciences celebration.

Just to put some numbers on it: Columbia estimates that about 1,500 people attended this year. We went through about $500 of yarn, $275 of data print-outs & project sheets, $100 of velcro, $150 for other supplies. (Those kids really liked our yarn, check out that adorable second photo!)

Some highlights from this year’s event. 


The National Parks Tempestry Project book is here!

This work, the brainchild of volunteer coordinator Erika Zambello (photographer, fiber artist, and writer for National Parks Traveler Magazine), has been several years in the making and has involved dozens of crafters from all over the United States. It is both a beautifully rendered love letter to our natural environment and an acknowledgement of the dangers it faces.

The book is available for order here, or email us at TempestryProject@gmail.com if you are interested in carrying a few copies in your store. A portion of all sales goes to the National Parks Conservation Association – thank you for helping to make this possible!

Pictured: Sitka National Park, Alaska, 1966 & 2016, made by Laura.

The Tempestry Project as seen in the New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine, Slate, Huffington Post, the NRDC and elsewhere


A portion of all New Normal Tempestry Kits & Emotion Tempestry Kits go to various non-profits. Your purchases so far have helped us donate $2,950 to these organizations – thank you for making this possible.


This is an image of woven, knitted climate change data recoreded in tapestry form. Red hues express the heat recorded and may include global warming markers. The darker blue hues express the colder climate markers in a normal and thriving environment. In some cases, the cold markers will identify how the climate is upside down. The latter situation is also not desirable, the climate data changes with human interaction.

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