SPINNING YARN: Anni Albers weaves at Black Mountain College. The influential instructor and her work at BMC is a focal point of a new exhibition at the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center.

“The Navajo weaver often rubs a spider’s web into her hands to bless herself before beginning a weaving. A child also received the blessing of the web so that one day she may grow to be a fine weaver ...

Photo provided Dee Nierman’s mother is shown in the past at the 1864 loom that Nierman uses today. Rag-rug maker Dee Nierman lets it be known right at the top of a conversation that, at 87 years old, ...

Although numbers fell in the pandemic year of 2020, in 2019 433 people registered for classes at the center. Last year, the number went up to 249 and so far in 2022, 196 have signed up, more than in ...

In the hands of a local weaving artist, threads intertwine with imagination to fashion clothing, characters and costumes inspired by her American Indian heritage. Among the creations of Margaret Roach ...

Using silk thread as fine as a spider's spinnings, Kate Barker was carefully conserving a banner of old Masonic lodge insignias last month -- something sewed together in the 19th century that's now ...