THE ATELIER EVENINGS
Trunk Shows
Textile tastings on the trade of the coat.
An intimate evening spent learning to tell a good coat from its origin: the fibre, the handle, the drape, the weight, the composition and the trade that comes before the garment.
Over ninety minutes we look at and handle three noble fibres — camel hair, cashmere and alpaca — compare cloth samples, and learn how to look closely at a coat.
CALENDAR
Autumn · winter 2026
PLACE
Madrid - jueves 19:30 pm.
CAPACITY
Six to twelve guests
DURATION
Ninety minutes
INTERVAL
Leaf tea, cava brut nature and a table of bread, cheese and something sweet
BOOKING
€30 · interval included
FORTHCOMING EVENINGS
October
Evening · October 2026 · Madrid
Thursday — 7.30 pm
Fully booked
November
Evening · November 2026 · Madrid
Thursday — 7.30 pm
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December
Evening · December 2026 · Madrid
Thursday — 7.30 pm
DATE TO BE CONFIRMED
First word of New Pieces, forthcoming Trunk Shows and Events.
WHAT A TRUNK SHOW IS
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
The name is an old one: when workshops had no shop, they carried their goods in trunks from city to city, to show them close up.
Murmells takes up that gesture again and brings it to a room in Madrid.
One table. Three fibres. Three animals, and the coats born of them. A guided conversation on material, craft and permanence.
It unfolds like a tasting: you touch, you compare, you ask, you learn to recognise.
To tell the handle of a noble fibre.
To understand why camel hair keeps you warm without weight.
To recognise the fineness of cashmere, and its scarcity.
To tell a Huacaya alpaca from a Suri by look and behaviour.
To read a composition with a better eye.
To observe the drape, the weight, the structure and the finish of a coat.
To understand why some coats age well and others merely pass through a season.
ABOUT THE EVENING
Before the coat.
Long before the pattern, the seam and the finished garment, there was a natural intelligence: animals made for cold, wind, altitude and desert. The evening begins there, with what nature has already done.
I
The Bactrian camel
Camel hair
Minus forty in January; plus forty in July. The camel wears two coats at once. When the heat comes, it lets the inner one fall, in tufts, onto the sand. Nobody shears it. They wait.
A fibre that warms, breathes and weighs little. It protects without imposing.
II
The Mongolian goat
Cashmere
The wind does not let up for weeks. Beneath the goat's coarse hair, close to the skin, grows a down so fine it is almost invisible. In spring, the herder combs it out by hand, slowly. From each goat, barely a handful a year.
Which is why cashmere is measured not only by its softness, but by its scarcity.
III
Huacaya and Suri
Alpaca
The sun burns; by evening, it freezes. Two herds graze side by side. One looks like a cloud; the other, a curtain of silk moving in the wind.
The same night. The same cold. Two different kinds of coat.
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TELL ME ABOUT NEW DATES
No date that suits you?
Leave us your details and we will let you know when the next evenings in Madrid are announced. No obligation.
WOULD YOU LIKE TO HOST?
Private evenings are held in your own space. You gather your circle; we set the date with you.
PRIVATE TRUNK SHOWS
Your circle.
A private textile tasting, bringing together the people you choose around the coat, the fibre and the trade.
The date.
Open evenings are held on Thursdays. A private evening takes place on the day that suits the host, arranged with you on booking.
The table.
Murmells brings everything: the fibres, the pieces, the story and the hospitality. The host simply gathers her guests.
No two evenings are alike. Write to us and we will shape it with you.
Frequently asked questions.
An encounter with the craft. In the past, workshops without a shop carried their wares in trunks from city to city, to show them up close. Murmells revives that gesture in a room in Madrid: ninety minutes around three noble fibres, their animals and the craft of the coat.
For anyone curious about material, about the coat, about dressing well in the proper sense, and about choosing a garment made to last. No prior knowledge is needed.
Ninety minutes for a group of six to twelve, cava / Godello, loose-leaf tea and small bites, and the three fibres to touch. An evening for learning with your hands.
Spanish.
Yes. Say so in the comments when you book.
Let us know in advance and we will move your place to the next evening, or hold it as credit at the atelier.