Hi, I’m Emily

I learned to listen before I learned to stitch.

For more than twenty years, I worked in insight and innovation, designing conversations with people around the world. My work took me from boardrooms to beauty counters, from New York to Dubai, helping organizations understand how people think, choose, and imagine.

I became fascinated not by products, but by people.

Then the questions changed.

Outside work I found myself increasingly drawn to cloth.

Old samplers.

Repair.

Embroidery.

Natural dye.

Making with my hands.

The more time I spent with materials, the more I wondered whether they weren't simply expressing thought...

...but participating in it.

Leaving one table to find another.

Leaving corporate life was disorienting.

There were moments of uncertainty, rejection, and starting again.

Looking back, those experiences now feel less like an ending than an invitation to build something that had no obvious place before. I started to design and deliver experiences, workshops I called them, for women, kids, companies, with fabric a major player in the moment. But looking back, I can see I still needed time to compost the idea!

Milan.

Years of experimenting quietly eventually became really public.

In summer 2026, I finally had my breakthrough. I was invited to a big conference in Milan, to facilitate a textile thinking workshop for a worldwide audience.

The response confirmed something I had only hoped might be true:

People were hungry for hands alongside words.

For thinking together through materials.

Today.

Honestly. Milan gave me the confidence I needed to take this beautiful experience forward. I didn’t want it to stop in Italy. I wanted a table and to get on the road and meet people across the world also hungry for hands and materials and making.

Hence the birth of The Maker’s Table. I bring the Table. The cloth (all beautifully intentionally sourced).

Bring a piece of cloth. Pull up a Chair.

We'll see what it has to say.