{"id":55160,"date":"2022-11-30T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T11:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/?p=55160"},"modified":"2022-11-28T12:30:36","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T17:30:36","slug":"spotlight-on-local-cloth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/communities\/spotlight-on-local-cloth\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight On: Local Cloth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_55163\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55163\" class=\"size-full wp-image-55163\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Spotlight-On_-Local-Cloth-Miles-Klein-left-and-Matilda-Law-weavers-from-Warren-Wilson-College.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Spotlight-On_-Local-Cloth-Miles-Klein-left-and-Matilda-Law-weavers-from-Warren-Wilson-College.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Spotlight-On_-Local-Cloth-Miles-Klein-left-and-Matilda-Law-weavers-from-Warren-Wilson-College-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Spotlight-On_-Local-Cloth-Miles-Klein-left-and-Matilda-Law-weavers-from-Warren-Wilson-College-1024x544.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Spotlight-On_-Local-Cloth-Miles-Klein-left-and-Matilda-Law-weavers-from-Warren-Wilson-College-768x408.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Spotlight-On_-Local-Cloth-Miles-Klein-left-and-Matilda-Law-weavers-from-Warren-Wilson-College-810x431.jpg 810w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Spotlight-On_-Local-Cloth-Miles-Klein-left-and-Matilda-Law-weavers-from-Warren-Wilson-College-1140x606.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-55163\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miles Klein, left, and Matilda Law, weavers from Warren Wilson College. Photo by Caroline Williford<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Emma Castleberry<\/p>\n<p>Local Cloth is a nonprofit organization dedicated to growing and supporting the fiber economy in Western North Carolina. Local Cloth began in 2012 as a special project of HandMade in America and has grown into a vibrant place for local artists and farmers to teach, learn, sell their products and connect with the community. \u201cWe have a rich textile tradition in the mountains of Western North Carolina, a tradition kept alive by our region\u2019s craft schools and made modern by textile programs at Haywood Community College and Warren Wilson College,\u201d says Judi Jetson, a founder and chairman of the board for Local Cloth. \u201cWe have more fiber artists per capita than any other place in the US and hundreds of small farms raising sheep.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_55165\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55165\" class=\"wp-image-55165\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Spotlight-On_-Local-Cloth-Local-Cloth-Shop.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Spotlight-On_-Local-Cloth-Local-Cloth-Shop.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Spotlight-On_-Local-Cloth-Local-Cloth-Shop-300x258.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Spotlight-On_-Local-Cloth-Local-Cloth-Shop-1024x881.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Spotlight-On_-Local-Cloth-Local-Cloth-Shop-768x660.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Spotlight-On_-Local-Cloth-Local-Cloth-Shop-810x697.jpg 810w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Spotlight-On_-Local-Cloth-Local-Cloth-Shop-1140x980.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-55165\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Local Cloth Shop. Photo by Caroline Williford<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Local Cloth hosts a biennial regional exhibition, an annual Fiber Farmers Day and occasional fashion shows. As an educational member of the Southern Highland Craft Guild, the organization also has a robust calendar of workshops and special interest groups. Local Cloth improves access to local textiles and fiber with its retail studio in the River Arts District and booths at the Southern Highland Fall Craft Fair and the Southeastern Animal Fiber Fair. Local Cloth will hold a holiday market in the studio on Saturday, December 10, from 10 a.m to 4 p.m. In addition to its existing inventory, the market will feature special selections offered by 14 farmers and fiber artists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year we\u2019ve started a new project to make blankets from local fiber that is dyed here and woven here\u2014we call them Blue Ridge Blankets,\u201d says Jetson. In its first year, the project sourced fiber from 15 local farms, spun the fiber at the last remaining local mill, Two Roots Fiber Mill, and worked exclusively with local dyers who belong to Local Cloth\u2019s Natural Dye Interest Group and weavers in textile programs at Haywood Community College and Warren Wilson College. \u201cThe Blue Ridge Blankets are a dream come true for Local Cloth,\u201d says Jetson. \u201cNow 10 years old, we\u2019re finally growing into our name.\u201d Samples of the Blue Ridge Blankets are in the studio now and the public is invited to vote for their favorite designs. The winners will be available for sale in the fall of 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Eileen Bercham first learned about Local Cloth through a neighbor and quickly became a regular at the Monday knitting group meetings. \u201cAt first, I only went to knitting meetings,\u201d she says. \u201cI then started taking classes, which were so awesome. The classes are well-taught and encouraging.\u201d She then started volunteering to work at the Local Cloth store and now sells her hand-knitted items there. Members of Local Cloth receive a 20 percent discount on classes and are eligible to sell items in the retail studio. \u201cMy specialty is lace shawls and scarves,\u201d Bercham says. \u201cIt is rewarding to know that a person will enjoy something made by hand.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_55164\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55164\" class=\"wp-image-55164\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Spotlight-On_-Local-Cloth-Holiday-Market.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Spotlight-On_-Local-Cloth-Holiday-Market.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Spotlight-On_-Local-Cloth-Holiday-Market-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Spotlight-On_-Local-Cloth-Holiday-Market-1024x654.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Spotlight-On_-Local-Cloth-Holiday-Market-768x490.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Spotlight-On_-Local-Cloth-Holiday-Market-810x517.jpg 810w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Spotlight-On_-Local-Cloth-Holiday-Market-1140x728.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-55164\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Local Cloth Holiday Market<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cathy Nielson joined Local Cloth in 2020, attending virtual tours of artist studios and classes via Zoom during the pandemic. Nielson had learned about the financial struggles of local artists through her work at Mountain BizWorks and was drawn to Local Cloth\u2019s mission. \u201cI was intrigued by a non-profit, volunteer organization that was working on the individual needs of fiber artists and the greater community issue of financially sustaining the arts,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>Nielson is a regular attendee of a weekly special interest group for knitters, crocheters and needle felters. \u201cThis group has been phenomenal in restoring my enthusiasm for knitting and for encouraging me to look beyond what I already know how to do,\u201d she says. She\u2019s also explored other fiber arts classes offered by Local Cloth including book making, tapestry weaving and indigo dyeing. \u201cThis is the group that has given me the encouragement and support I needed to restore my creative identity,\u201d Nielson says. \u201cLocal Cloth is a multifaceted fiber arts organization that you can be involved with in many different ways: visit the shop and buy a beautiful piece of art, take a class from a talented instructor, join a special interest group and get to know other members who share your passion, volunteer for a Local Cloth event or an ongoing activity.<\/p>\n<p>However someone chooses to be involved, I believe their individual creativity will be sparked, and they will be an active supporter of individual fiber artists and the greater economic impact that the fiber arts have on WNC.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Local Cloth Studio is located at 408 Depot Street, Asheville. For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/LocalCloth.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LocalCloth.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local Cloth is a nonprofit organization dedicated to growing and supporting the fiber economy in Western North Carolina. 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