Asheville's Local Cloth Co-op Pop-Up at The Corner!

Name: Asheville's Local Cloth Co-op Pop-Up at The Corner!
Start: 2024-11-23T08:00:00-05:00
Location: 2105 W Market Street, Greensboro, NC, United States, North Carolina 27403

Schedule

Sat Nov 23 2024 at 08:00 am

UTC-05:00

Location

2105 W Market Street, Greensboro, NC, United States, North Carolina 27403 | Greensboro, NC

The Pop-up:
Shop one-of-a-kind apparel, accessories, home decor, yarn, kits, and gifts handcrafted by fiber artists and farmers from Local Cloth, located in Asheville's River Arts District. The pop-up shop will be hosted during the Saturday morning Corner Farmers Market. All purchases from the Local Cloth Pop-up shop will support both the fiber artists and farmers and the work of Local Cloth, enabling them to continue providing programming and events that strengthen the local fiber community.
What is Local Cloth?
Local Cloth is a volunteer-led non-profit network of more than 500 fiber artists, farmers, small-scale fiber processors, educators, and fiber enthusiasts, dedicated to growing and supporting the fiber economy in Western North Carolina and increasing awareness of and access to regional production and artisan practices.
At a personal level, we are a community of generous, talented artists and teachers and fiber fanatics who encourage each other, and bring along other folks with an interest in fiber crafts to broaden their knowledge. We have workshops—everything from needle felting to sewing to knitting to natural dyeing techniques, weaving and more. Our interest groups vary in number of meetings per month but all provide an opportunity for folks to share their passion for mending, dyeing, sewing, spinning, weaving, knitting, handwork, and the study of textiles. One of our tag lines is “Creativity, Connection, Community,” and we mean it.
Until September 27th, we had a thriving Retail Shop with over 60 vendors represented. We sold gifts, clothing, and accessories all made by our vendors in Western North Carolina. We also had a Maker Space which included yarn, roving, fabric, batts, natural dye seeds, carved wooden tools for the crafty among our customers. One of the projects of which we are most proud is the Blue Ridge Blanket Project which is a “sheep to blanket” project, grown, dyed, and woven in WNC. In September, we won a “Best of Asheville” award for Best Boutique Store from the Asheville Media Group for our retail shop.
And then the storm hit, filled the studio full of 11 feet of water, and here we are. Taking our show on the road!
If you would like to learn more and support the rebuilding of their home base in Asheville's River Arts District, click here:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-resilient-fiber-artists-and-farmers