Rug Making – Blue Ridge National Heritage Area

Elsie Trivette

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

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

Mary Ann Dotson Silvey braided her first rug in 1980, when her aunt Virginia Boone...

Founded in Fletcher in 1952 by the Boss family, Mountain Rug Mills has undergone a...

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