in collaboration with TextielLab, the TextielMuseum‘s professional workshop

Happy Everything Tablecloth is a large tablecloth composed of curtains, pillowcases, and hand-embroidered table linens found in secondhand stores. These domestic textiles are assembled into a single, expansive surface, connected through foldable vase shapes embroidered onto the fabric. Lying flat, the embroidered vase shapes resemble geometric flowers; when pulled upward, layers of earlier hand-embroidered textiles become visible beneath. Small stitched phrases—such as “happy everything,” “summer, sun and pleasure,” “love,” or “forever 18”—appear along the edges, referencinginscriptions extracted from vases photographed in a secondhand store. The tablecloth situates the table as a central site of care, repetition, and celebration, making visible both the labor embedded in domestic belongings and the subjectivity of their value.