Hey folks! The Eastern Tennessee Amazing Directory of Fiber Arts is a list of fiber art relevant sites and people in the Eastern Tennessee and Appalachian Areas. This part of the country has a rich fiber art tradition. Sitting just atop cotton country, the cold mountain winters favored staying indoors and making warm garments and blankets. So if you live here and need to find a fiber art something, or you’re visiting and want to plan fiber sites into your trip, you’re in the right place.
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White Fox Beads – Knoxville, TN
They have over 8,000 items to choose from including seed beads, loads of knowledge to share, and a friendly, comfortable atmosphere.
White Fox Beads Website
Artists
Deborah Adams Fiber Arts – Townsend, TN
Silk designs & wearables
deborahadamsfiberart (AT) gmail (dot) com
Sarazen AnYin (Me!) – Knoxville, TN
Fiber artist. I specialize in woolpaintings, knitting patterns, spinning, felting, garments and design, cosplay, teaching, demonstrations, writing. Hey, you’re on my website, stick around for a spell. Put your feet up. Check out my portfolio if you like.
Sarazen AnYin website <— lol, your exit strategy back to my home page.
Raeus Cannon – Knoxville, TN
Pin loom weaver, teacher, knitter. Her dragon coat has been in Vogue Knitting magazine.
Raeus Cannon Instagram
Bailey Earith of Bailey Fiber Art Studio – Maryville, TN
Fiber artist. Making art with heart. She is a teacher, designer, art coach and she does commissions and art lessons. She specialized in mixed media and fiber art.
Bailey Fiber Art Instagram
Bailey (AT) BaileyFiberArt.com
Geri Forkner – Sweetwater, TN
Weaver, felter, teacher. Geri has taught world wide and her work has won contests at the Handweavers Convergence.
Geri Forkner website
Teresa Hay Textiles Studio – Columbia, TN
Teresa specializes in non-traditional screen-printing fabric and crafting one of a kind artisanal wearable garments
Teresa Hay Textiles Studio website
David Heustess Follow the Spiral Studios – Nashville, TN
David is a potter, a bead weaver and a fiber artist. He has created a Covid Memorial Quilt Project and is working on a collection of Shibori fiber art.
David Heustess Follow the Spiral Studios website
The Longest Thread – Nashville, TN and Turkey
Artisanal machine woven turkish towels and hand woven lap blankets and scarves. Their items are made in both Turkey and Nashville.
The Longest Thread website
Vickie Vipperman Weaving Studio – Nashville, TN
Vickie specializes in slow cloth and wearable art. Her work is fully handwoven and much of it is hand dyed.
Vickie Vipperman Weaving website
Bridget Wilson Matlock Fiber Arts – Townsend, TN
bwmatlock (AT) comcast (dot) net
Williamsport Handwoven’s – Williamsport, TN
Williamsport Handwoven’s specializes in making custom handwoven textiles and teaching the art of hand weaving.
Williamsport Handwoven website
Wren Cottage Studio – Athens, TN
They specialize in handwoven heirlooms. Their work has been selected to be a part of the Early American Life Magazine.
Wren Cottage Studio website
Coaching
Sarazen AnYin (Me!) – Knoxville, TN
Fiber artist. If you are looking to start a career as an artist, especially a fiber artist, I can coach you in technique, getting your work shown publicly, starting your own business, how to build a website and entrepreneurship. I can also give private lessons on spinning, knitting or cosplay. If you’re interested, send me a message via my contact form.
Sarazen AnYin website <— lol, your exit strategy back to my home page.
Bailey Earith of Bailey Fiber Art Studio – Maryville, TN
Fiber artist. Making art with heart. She is a teacher, designer, art coach and she does commissions and art lessons. She specialized in mixed media and fiber art.
Bailey Fiber Art Instagram
Bailey (AT) BaileyFiberArt.com
Steve Prentice – Townsend, TN
Steve is a weaver and a spinner. He is open to coaching individuals and can make many spinning wheel repairs. He is also an organizer for the Birchwood Fiber festival.
sdprent (AT) gmail (dot) com
Understory Saori Studio – Knoxville, TN
Saori is a type of Japanese weaving where you focus on your innate creativity and bring that talent forward. There are no mistakes, just differences. Understory hosts classes and workshops, they sell looms and yarn an other saori materials. And they have sewing classes, either private or semi-private.
Understory Saori Studio website
Fiber sources and Fiber Farmers
Blue Ridge Fiberworks – North Western NC
A collective of several fiber and yarn producers they specialize in high quality Angora, Alpaca and custom yarns for retailers and designers.
Blue Ridge Fiberworks website
Beth’EL Ranch – Crossville, TN
A working farm specializing in raising Jacob and Suffolk Sheep.
Beth’EL Ranch contact
Buckmaster Family Farm – Mt. Pleasant, TN
A working farm specializing in raising Icelandic sheep. Their studio ship has wool products from their biannual hearings. They have supplies for spinning, tatting and weaving. They sell hand dyed thread and have a variety of fiber art classes.
Buckmaster Family Farm website
Buckmaster Family Farm Facebook
Deep Draw Yak Ranch – Crossville, TN
A working farm specializing in breeding and raising Yaks. They collect and harvest their wool, offer guided tours from March to December where you can learn everything Yak!
Deep Draw Yak Ranch website
Deep Draw Yak Ranch Facebook
Deep Draw Yak Ranch Instagram
Deep Draw Yak Ranch Etsy
Leatherwood Creek Farm – Pulaski, TN
A working farm specializing in raising American Tunis and Shetland sheep, They sell both fiber, yarn, handwoven towels and sheep.
Leatherwood Creek Farm website
Leatherwood Creek Farm Etsy
Leatherwood Creek Farm Instagram
Mesa Trail Alpacas – Jacks Creek, TN
A working farm specializing in raising Alpacas, they have a farm story, tours and other events. They also do fiber Processing for Alpacas and other camelids
Mesa Trail Alpacas website
Namaste Farm – Kingston, TN
A working farm specializing in raising Katahdin meat sheep, and working Border Collies.
Namaste Farm website
River Cottage Farm – Near Nashville, TN
A working farm specializing in grass-fed beef, chickens, and sheep. They have raw Coopworth fleece, and also roving, batts, and yarn. Their flock includes Romney, Coopworth, and Rambouillet.
River Cottage Farm website
Singing Sheep Wool – Woodbury, TN
This is a small farm that raises 100% shetland wool. They have rams and and ewes for sale. Contact them for info on fleeces.
singingsheepwool (AT) gmail (dot) com
Sourwood Fiber Farm – Fletcher, NC
They raise Shetland and Leicester Longwool sheep and Satin Angora rabbits that produce beautiful fiber for knitters, crocheters, felters and spinners.
Sourwood Fiber Farm website
Tennessee Sheep Producers Association
An organization whose purpose is to encourage and promote the sheep industry in Tennessee.
Tennessee Sheep Producers Association website
Three Creeks Farm – Charlotte, TN
This is a working farm in middle TN. They raise Shetland sheep, fainting goats and chickens. They also grow many natural dye plants. They have classes and workshops on everything from blacksmithing to spinning and felting. They also sell some spinning wheels and supplies.
Three Creeks Farm website
Two Ewes – Knoxville, TN
Specializing in undyed fiber and unique 1 skein yarns.
nps84 (AT) bellsouth (dot) net
Two Roots Alpacas and Fiber Mill – Greenville, TN
A working farm specializing in raising fiber alpacas and a mill that produces a variety of yarns, roving, socks, hats, scarves, rugs and more.
Two Roots Alpacas and Fiber Mill website
Two Roots Alpacas and Fiber Mill Facebook
Fiber Festivals
Birchwood Fiber Festival – Birchwood, TN
This Fiber festival happens in early May. 2023 was their first year, and there were a lot of classes in everything from embroidery, peg loom weaving, beginning spinning, fiber prep, floor loom weaving and more.
Birchwood Fiber Festival website
Blue Ridge Fiber Fest – Sparta, NC
This Fiber festival happens in early June. Admission is free and class schedule is posted in January. There are farmers, vendors and other fiber artists. They have a wool, skein and garment competition
Blue Ridge Fiber Fest website
Blue Ridge Fiber Fest Facebook
Great Smoky Mountains Fiber Fair – Townsend, TN
This Fiber fair happens every April. It attracts many vendors and thousands of folks. There are classes, demonstrations, food and other activities.
Great Smoky Mountains Fiber Fair website
Kentucky Sheep and Fiber Festival – Lexington, KY
This Fiber fair happens every May. It attracts many vendors. There are workshops, fleece and skein competitions, food and other activities.
Kentucky Sheep and Fiber Festival website
Southern Comforts Fiber Market – Charlotte, NC
The fiber market happens in early to mid August. There are classes and vendors in this new and growing fiber event.
Southern Comforts Fiber Market website
Southeastern Animal Fiber Fair (SAFF) – Fletcher, NC
The largest fiber festival in the Appalachian area, this festival last for three days and includes livestock shows, workshops and classes, contests and a large area of vendors. This happens in October.
Southeastern Animal Fiber Fair website.
Fiber Mills
Echoview Fiber Mill – Weaverville, NC
A mini-mill just outside of Asheville NC. It functions under strict environmental guidelines and makes yarn, home goods, and apparel from natural fibers.
Echoview Fiber Mill Facebook
Golden view Alpacas & Mini Mill – Kodak, TN
Originally a working farm specializing in raising Alpacas, they are now mostly focused on their fiber mill and teaching classes. Call ahead to schedule fiber processing.
Golden view Alpacas & Mini Mill website
Golden view Alpacas & Mini Mill Facebook
Mesa Trail Alpacas – Jacks Creek, TN
A working farm specializing in raising Alpacas, they have a farm story, tours and other events. They also do fiber Processing for Alpacas and other camelids
Mesa Trail Alpacas website
Shepherd’s Gate Fiber Processing Mill – Youngsville, NC
Shepherd’s Gate is a full service fiber mill. They are family owned and operated and they process a wide variety of fibers.
Shepherd’s Gate Fiber Processing Mill website
Two Roots Alpacas and Fiber Mill – Greenville, TN
A working farm specializing in raising fiber alpacas and a mill that produces a variety of yarns, roving, socks, hats, scarves, rugs and more.
Two Roots Alpacas and Fiber Mill website
Two Roots Alpacas and Fiber Mill Facebook
Galleries
The Emporium – Knoxville, TN
The Emporium is the center for the arts in Knoxville. Organized and administered by the Knoxville Arts & Culture Alliance, it is an open gallery year round and often features fiber art.
The Emporium website
The Emporium Facebook
The Folk Art Center – Asheville, NC
The Folk Art center features some of the finest craft art and fiber art in the area. The two level building has a large shopping display of work from their membership and galleries of featured work as well as focused exhibitions.
The Folk Art Center website
Kingsport Renaissance Arts Center – Kingsport, TN
A facility dedicated to local arts and community activities, it is the site of the Overmountain Weavers Guild Gallery Show. It also has a dedicated gallery on the second floor which is operated by the Kingsport Art Guild. Fiber Art is often featured in their displays.
Kingsport Renaissance Arts Center website
Guilds and Groups
Chattanooga Fiber Arts Guild – Chattanooga, TN
Established during Covid their mission is to bring arts to Monroe Co. and surrounding areas. They organize workshops and showcase local artists and craftspeople.
Chattanooga Fiber Arts Guild website
Chattanooga Fiber Arts Guild Facebook
East Tennessee Arts Center – Sweetwater, TN
Established during Covid their mission is to bring arts to Monroe Co. and surrounding areas. They organize workshops and showcase local artists and craftspeople.
East Tennessee Arts Center website
Foothills Craft Guild – Knoxville, TN
The premier craft guild in Eastern TN, it has two shows a year centered around its juried members. There is a large group of fiber artists amongst the membership, including myself. You can find artist through their website.
Foothills Craft Guild website
Handweavers Guild of Nashville (TN)
This is a guild has regular meetings with fiber arts focussed programs. They also sponsor workshops each year and feature nationally recognized teachers along with the guild’s own members. This is an active group.
Handweavers Guild of Nashville website
Handweavers Guild of Nashville Facebook
Kingsport Art Guild – Kingsport, TN
This is a guild focused o local art of all types in and around the Kingsport area. They organize the gallery area of the Kingsport Renaissance Center and have featured fiber art. They have regular contests and juried shows featuring nationally recognized artists.
Kingsport Art Guild website
Knoxville Chapter, Embroiderers’ Guild of America, Inc
This is a guild focused on needle arts, particularly embroidery. They work to teach others these skills and to preserve the history of this traditional fiber art. They have regular monthly meetings and are a very active group.
Embroiderers’ guild website
Embroiderers’ guild Facebook
Memphis Guild of Handloom Weavers
This group has monthly meetings from August through May. They have many hands-on activities and weaving equipment and a library is available. The membership demonstrates at the Pink Palace Crafts Fair every fall.
Memphis Guild of Handloom Weavers website
Memphis Guild of Handloom Weavers Facebook
MidAtlantic Fiber Association – New York to North Carolina
An organization of guilds or guild conglomerate, this is a good resource for instructors who want to travel and teach.
MidAtlantic Fiber Association website
Mid-South Spinning Guild – Cordova TN
A group of spinners that meets the first Saturday of the Month at 1:30 pm for fiber and fun. Check their Facebook page for the meeting location.
Mid-South Spinning Guild Facebook
Mid-South Spinning Guild website
Overmountain Weavers Guild – Kingsport, TN
The Overmountain Weavers Guild welcomes new members. They have weaving and spinning equipment available for members to rent and regular classes and events which they announce in their newsletter and calendar.
Overmountain Weavers Guild website
Overmountain Weavers Guild Facebook
Scenic Valley Handweavers Guild – Birchwood, TN
The Scenic Valley Handweavers guild has been meeting for over a decade. They meet monthly and have regular challenges, a lending library and workshops from time to time. This is an active group.
Scenic Valley Handweavers Guild website
Scenic Valley Handweavers Guild Facebook
Smoky Mountain Quilters of Tennessee – Knoxville, TN
Their guild was formed in 1980 and for 43 years we’ve hosted an annual quilt show that brings in beautiful quilts from all over the country for viewers to enjoy.
Smoky Mountain Quilters website
Smoky Mountain Quilters Facebook
Southeast Fiber Arts Alliance – Chamblee, GA
SEFAA is a huge fiber and textile resource. They support fiber art in all forms and have classes, meetings, regular events, exhibitions, open studios and rentals.
Southeast Fiber Arts Alliance website
Southern Highland Craft Guild – Asheville, NC
Formed by skilled artists and craftspeople from both Tennessee and North Carolina, the Southern Highland Craft Guild is a juried guild that serves to cultivate high quality craftsmanship and foster opportunities for creators to maintain a livelihood. They organize the sale of fine work, including fiber art at the Biltmore Village, the Folk Art Center, Southern Highland Craft Guild store on Tunnel Road, and at Moses Cone Manor. They also have regular membership shows. It is one of the oldest guilds in the United States.
Southern Highland Craft Guild website
Southern Highland Craft Guild Facebook
Tennessee Valley Handspinners Guild – Knoxville, TN
The Tennessee Valley Handspinners Guild is a group dedicated to promoting a greater interest in hand spinning and the fiber arts, providing a community for hand spinners in the Knoxville metropolitan area and offering educational and demonstration opportunities both within the guild and in our communities. This is a very active group
Tennessee Valley Handspinners Guild Website
Tennessee Valley Handspinners Guild Facebook
Tennessee Valley Handspinners Guild Instagram
Townsend Artisan Guild – Townsend, TN
The Townsend Artisan Guild is a multi-discipline art guild. They do have a fair number of fiber artists and for many years were instrumental in running the Fiber Festival in Townsend. Today they focus more on their guild shop and gallery.
Townsend Artisan Guild website
Tuesday Weavers – Norris, TN
The Tuesday Weavers is an all levels weaving group. There are several master weavers who are great teachers, so this is good and supportive place to learn. This is a very active group.
Tuesday Weavers Website
Tuesday Weavers Facebook
Wilderness Weavers – Knoxville, TN
The Wilderness Weavers is a regional group who meet monthly. Their meetings can be short classes, demonstrations or show and tell by the members. They also sometimes take field trips and all levels of weavers are welcome. This is an active group.
Wilderness Weavers Facebook
Museums
Exchange Place, Living history farm – Kingsport, TN
A living history farm, Exchange Place is the meeting site of the Overmountain Weavers Guild. It also hosts a several events including the Fall Folk Arts Festival where there are both fiber art demonstrations and art available for sale.
Exchange Place website
Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center – Townsend, TN
The Heritage Center offers a museum with hand-on activities and tours of vintage buildings and log cabins. Their programing includes a Fiber festival in April, and a new ‘Fiber Cabin’ for holding classes and studio space. The curator, Trevor Lanier, is a skilled weaver.
Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center website
Knoxville Museum of Art – Knoxville, TN
Established to encourage life-long learning and engagement with the arts. the Knoxville Museum of Art focuses on the culture of Southern Appalachia. The permanent exhibit, Higher Ground: A Century of the Visual Arts in East Tennessee, spotlights visual arts from Knoxville and the surrounding region. Traveling exhibits and other collections include fiber art.
Knoxville Museum of Art website
Marble Springs State Historic Site – Knoxville, TN
Marble Springs was the home of Tennessee’s first governor John Sevier. There are tours and activities like the Loom House where kids can learn the basics of spinning, weaving and using plants for dyes. Reservations are required so be sure to plan ahead.
Marble Springs State Historic Site website
McMinn County Living Heritage Museum – Athens, TN
The Living Heritage Museum has many displays of preserved fiber work, vintage looms, and period garments with lace, ribbon an other well crafted details. They also host regular events and festivals with people demonstrating historic fiber crafts as well as some modern twists on those traditional techniques.
McMinn County Living Heritage Museum
Museum of Appalachia – Clinton, TN
A living history museum, this site depicts an Appalachian farm and village with multiple buildings and thousands of historic artifacts, including quilts, baskets and other fiber art. There are also gardens and farm animals. It is a Smithsonian Affiliate and education center for the the history and workings of this area.
Museum of Appalachia Website
Museum of Appalachia Instagram
Ramsey House – Knoxville, TN
Ramsey House is regarded as one of the best examples of a sophisticated home from the 1790s in Eastern Tennessee. It features pink marble and blue limestone. It also hosts regular events and some classes. There is a display of a vintage walking wheel and some other fine textiles of the time.
Ramsey House website
Schools
Appalachian Arts and Craft Center – Clinton, TN
Part learning center, part local art gallery, part weaving studio, and community gathering place, they will help you learn and send you home loaded up with local art.
Appalachian Arts and Craft Center Website
Appalachian Arts and Craft Center Facebook
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts – Gatlinburg, TN
Arrowmont is an internationally recognized visual art education center, providing creative experiences year-round with weekend, one- and two-week workshops from March through November.
Arrowmont Website
Arrowmont X formerly called Twitter
John C Campbell Folk School – Brasstown, NC
The John C. Campbell Folk School has classes for adults in music, dance, crafts, writing, gardening and more. Fiber arts are a regular feature of their classes.
John C Campbell Folk School website
Berea College – Berea, KY
Berea is a work college. Every student works at an on-campus job many with a focus on traditional crafts. Berea is an inspirational place, that not only educates its students, but it also provides them the opportunity to learn use a traditional loom while they major in biology, etc.
Berea College website
Shops for Finished Art and Supplies
Appalachian Arts and Craft Center – Clinton, TN
Part learning center, part local art gallery, part weaving studio, and community gathering place, they will help you learn and send you home loaded up with local art.
Appalachian Arts and Craft Center Website
Appalachian Arts and Craft Center Facebook
Biltmore Village Guild Shop – Asheville, NC
This branch of the Southern Highlands Guild features fine crafts as well as artisan made garments, along with other examples of fiber art.
Biltmore Village Guild Shop website
Echoview Fiber Mill – Weaverville, NC
A mini-mill just outside of Asheville NC. It functions under strict environmental guidelines and makes yarn, home goods, and apparel from natural fibers.
Echoview Fiber Mill Facebook
The Folk Art Center – Asheville, NC
The Folk Art center features some of the finest craft art and fiber art in the area. The two level building has a large shopping display of work from their membership and galleries of featured work as well as focused exhibitions.
The Folk Art Center website
Local Cloth – Asheville, NC
Local cloth is a community of farmers, fiber artists, weavers, designers, teachers, suppliers and students committed to creating a thriving fiber art community in the Appalachian region. They have a shop, run a fashion show, have exhibits at local galleries, market local fiber art and focus on textile entrepreneurship, among many other things.
Local Cloth website
Moses Cone Manor Guild Shop – Asheville, NC
This branch of the Southern Highlands Guild features glassware and other crafts, with a small selection of fiber crafts work.
Moses Cone Manor Guild Shop website
R & M Yarns LLC – Georgetown, TN
Specializing in quality weaving yarns at competitive prices, they function mostly as an online store with select opening hours at their shop. They are very open to special visits if you call ahead. They are an excellent source of mill end yarns. Some equipment and classes are also available.
R & M Yarns LLC website
Smokey Mountain Spinnery Gatlinburg, TN
The Southeast’s Largest Spinning and Weaving Shop, the Smoky Mountain Spinnery is the place to go for big fiber art tools, like looms. It is also a paradise of fiber, yarn and fiber knowledge
Smokey Mountain Spinnery website
Southeast Fiber Arts Alliance – Chamblee, GA
SEFAA is a huge fiber and textile resource. The support fiber art in all forms and have classes, meetings, regular events, exhibitions, open studios and rentals.
Southeast Fiber Arts Alliance website
Sunshine Weaving – Lebanon, Tn
Sunshine weaving is a fiber art store focused on weaving, spinning and knitting supplies. They also have classes and events. You can order on-line or visit them at their shop in Lebanon.
Sunshine Weaving website
Townsend Artisan Guild Shop – Townsend, TN
The Townsend Artisan Guild is a multi-discipline art guild. They do have a fair number of fiber artists and for many years were instrumental in running the Fiber Festival in Townsend. Today they focus more on their guild shop and gallery.
Townsend Artisan Guild website
Tunnel Road Guild Shop – Asheville, NC
The Tunnel Road Shop is a smaller branch of the Southern Highland Craft Guild. It features a number of crafts and sells handwoven items and dyed garments.
Tunnel Road Guild Shop website
Understory Saori Studio – Knoxville, TN
Saori is a type of Japanese weaving where you focus on your innate creativity and bring that talent forward. There are no mistakes, just differences. Understory hosts classes and workshops, they sell looms and yarn an other saori materials. And they have sewing classes, either private or semi-private.
Understory Saori Studio website
The Woolery – Frankfort, KY
Established in 1981, the Woolery is fiber art supply paradise. They have full equipment lines for weaving, spinning, felting, dyeing, rug hooking and more. They also have a huge selection of yarns for weaving, knitting, crochet, you name it.
The Woolery website
Teaching
Local Cloth – Asheville, NC
Local cloth is a community of farmers, fiber artists, weavers, designers, teachers, suppliers and students committed to creating a thriving fiber art community in the Appalachian region. They have a shop, run a fashion show, have exhibits at local galleries, market local fiber art and focus on textile entrepreneurship, among many other things.
Local Cloth website
Bailey Earith of Bailey Fiber Art Studio – Maryville, TN
Fiber artist. Making art with heart. She is a teacher, designer, art coach and she does commissions and art lessons. She specialized in mixed media and fiber art.
Bailey Fiber Art Instagram
Bailey (AT) BaileyFiberArt.com
Southeast Fiber Arts Alliance – Chamblee, GA
SEFAA is a huge fiber and textile resource. The support fiber art in all forms and have classes, meetings, regular events, exhibitions, open studios and rentals.
Southeast Fiber Arts Alliance website
Sunshine Weaving – Lebanon, Tn
Sunshine weaving is a fiber art store focused on weaving, spinning and knitting supplies. They also have classes and events. You can order on-line or visit them at their shop in Lebanon.
Sunshine Weaving website
R & M Yarns LLC – Georgetown, TN
Specializing in quality weaving yarns at competitive prices, they function mostly as an online store with select opening hours at their shop. They are very open to special visits if you call ahead. They are an excellent source of mill end yarns. Some equipment and classes are also available. They also have classes and workshops.
R & M Yarns LLC website
R & M Class info
Three Creeks Farm – Charlotte, TN
This is a working farm in middle TN. They raise Shetland sheep, fainting goats and chickens. They also grow many natural dye plants. They have classes and workshops on everything from blacksmithing to spinning and felting. They also sell some spinning wheels and supplies.
Three Creeks Farm website
Understory Saori Studio – Knoxville, TN
Saori is a type of Japanese weaving where you focus on your innate creativity and bring that talent forward. There are no mistakes, just differences. Understory hosts classes and workshops, they sell looms and yarn an other saori materials. And they have sewing classes, either private or semi-private.
Understory Saori Studio website
Williamsport Handwoven’s- Williamsport, TN
Williamsport Handwoven’s specializes in making custom handwoven textiles and teaching the art of hand weaving.
Williamsport Handwoven website
Yadkin Valley Fiber Center – Elkin, NC
Dedicated to ongoing weaving instruction, they offer beginning instruction on four shaft, inkle, rigid heddle and tapestry looms. They host nationally known guest instructors and have a master weaving certification program.
Yadkin Valley Fiber Center website
Tools and Parts
Akerworks – Knoxville, TN
While they do not have a shop or open tours, Akerworks is based here in Knoxville. Their spinning parts and tools can be purchased directly from their website or via retailers in Pikeville, Nashville, Mountain City and Gatlinburg.
Akerworks website
Joe Campbell
Joe is a wood turner in the eastern TN/Knoxville area. He makes seam rippers, sewing needle cases, turned pin cushions, drop spindles and nostepinnes. He also makes yarn bowls and clappers for quilters. He can laser engrave on them as well. He may be able to make flyer parts for antique wheels. He is reachable at the emails below.
tennesseestargazer (AT) yahoo (dot) com
joe (AT) handcraftedbyme (dot) com
Joe Campbell’s website
Workshops and Studios
Appalachian Arts and Craft Center – Clinton, TN
Part learning center, part local art gallery, part weaving studio, and community gathering place, they will help you learn and send you home loaded up with local art.
Appalachian Arts and Craft Center Website
Appalachian Arts and Craft Center Facebook
Knoxmakers – Knoxville, TN
A membership based workshop it has everything from wood working tools, table saw, welding equipment, 3D printers, laser cutters and a generous fiber arts area. There are embroidery machines, sewing machines, large tables, dress forms, and more. There are also lots of classes and opportunities to teach.
Knoxmakers website
Local Cloth – Asheville, NC
Local cloth is a community of farmers, fiber artists, weavers, designers, teachers, suppliers and students committed to creating a thriving fiber art community in the Appalachian region. They have a shop, run a fashion show, have exhibits at local galleries, market local fiber art and focus on textile entrepreneurship, among many other things.
Local Cloth website
Southeast Fiber Arts Alliance – Chamblee, GA
SEFAA is a huge fiber and textile resource. The support fiber art in all forms and have classes, meetings, regular events, exhibitions, open studios and rentals.
Southeast Fiber Arts Alliance website
Understory Saori Studio – Knoxville, TN
Saori is a type of Japanese weaving where you focus on your innate creativity and bring that talent forward. There are no mistakes, just differences. Understory hosts classes and workshops, they sell looms and yarn an other saori materials. And they have sewing classes, either private or semi-private.
Understory Saori Studio website
Woodworking and Wheel Repair
Bobbin Boy
Alan and Milissa Dewey <— restorer of vintage flyers and maker of custom bobbins
bobbinboymail@gmail.com
Bobbin Boy on Facebook
Bobbin Boy on YouTube
Steve Prentice – Townsend, TN
Steve is a weaver and a spinner. He is open to coaching individuals and can make many spinning wheel repairs. He is also an organizer for the Birchwood Fiber festival.
sdprent (AT) gmail (dot) com