Blue Ridge Blankets Talk at Center for Craft

Join Local Cloth at the Center for Craft in Asheville, North Carolina at noon on Friday, October 20 for a special presentation on the Blue Ridge Blanket Project, one of our most ambitious  ventures. Judi Jetson will share an overview of the project.

The mission of the Blue Ridge Blankets project is to help revitalize the fiber economy in western North Carolina, by connecting fiber farmers, processors, dyers and weavers together, to produce locally sourced and crafted blankets. In 2021, with grant support from The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina, Local Cloth began gathering fiber across the Blue Ridge Mountains with a vision in mind: to make local blankets. We sourced fine wool, mohair and alpaca from 14 different farms in the region, which was then hand picked, spun into yarn, hand dyed with natural, heritage colors (indigo, madder root, walnut, weld) and woven into 19 different designs. In 2022, production began on the five most popular designs which are now for sale. Each blanket is named for a town or city where the farmers, dyers and weavers for the project reside, or one of the mountains or watersheds that grace our region. 

Please RSVP so that we know how many are planning to attend.

For more about the Blue Ridge Blankets Project, visit our webpage.