At the Fiberhouse Collective in Marshall, North Carolina, we envision a future of textiles that is place-based: a textile economy that supports small-scale farmers and producers while benefiting soil health and community resilience. Fiberhouse Collective encompasses twenty-two acres in the Blue Ridge Mountains. We host an artist residency in our eight-sided canvas cabin, which also serves as a classroom space, housing looms, dye equipment, sewing machines, a spinning wheel, and all the other equipment needed to create from farm to fabric. The Collective is a living laboratory and homestead where we grow food and dye gardens along with our chickens and pigs, which help with land management.
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