Quilting – Blue Ridge National Heritage Area

Willard and Ora Watson

Willard Watson and his wife Ora were among the extraordinary traditional artists in the Watson...

For well over half a century, Elsie Trivette practiced and perfected handicrafts that she learned...

Carol Turner has a knack for working with needles and hooks. She grew up in...

"What I do best is the rug hooking," says Evanell Trivette Thomas. Evanell grew up...

Marjorie Dula Roberts links several generations of quilters from Wilkes County. Marjorie's mother, grandmother, and...

"I've always been interested in making things," says Ruth Coffey. Ruth uses her hands constantly,...

Jane Campbell and her husband Mike Campbell are natives of Watauga County, NC. They live...

In the late 1930s, Eloise Renfro was a young mother with three small children, living...

Award-winning quilter and Southern Highland Craft Guild member Cynthia Hall dates her interest in the...

Leniavell Trivette, daughter of North Carolina Folk Heritage Award recipient Elsie Trivette, has been making...

Delta Peterson was born in Grayson County, Virginia, in 1937, into a family of thirteen...

North Carolinians have many customs of German origin, ranging from how we build churches to...