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Elaina is the shepherdess at Avillion Farm in Efland, NC where she tends flocks of Shetland and Jacob sheep, Angora goats, Suri Alpaca, and cares for a large herd of Angora rabbits. After 30+ years raising fiber-producing livestock and experiencing lots of fibers in various stages of preparation and utilization, I still enjoy all aspects of fiber production, processing and making.

Angela Tong is a textile arts designer and instructor. She specializes in knitting, crochet and weaving. She enjoys teaching online, at yarn shops and traveling to fiber events & retreats. Her spare time is spent on the pottery wheel. Follow her on Instagram @angelatongdesigns.

Melanie has been enamored with all things fiber since her grandmother taught her to knit and crochet when she was five or six years old. She has spent a lifetime delving deeply into every fiber art you can imagine. She has even travelled to Peru and Bolivia to study knitting and to Mexico and Guatemala to study Mayan backstrap weaving and embroidery.

Sue Dial hand crafts one of a kind yarns, wearables, and felted items using locally grown fiber, including that from her own rabbits and dogs. She also creates unique jewelry, housewares, and accessories for knitters using polymer clay, and expertly ties salon quality fairy hair, upon request. :)

Spinning and natural dyeing have been a long-standing fascination of mine. I started off dyeing with vegetable dyes found in my kitchen and have since expanded to a wide variety of natural dye sources, most of which I can find locally.

Beth Truesdale has been a fiber arts enthusiast for over 50 years! An active spinner and weaver since the mid 1980’s, Beth has been teaching others for nearly as long as she has been involved in fiber arts. With many successful new weavers to her credit, she enjoys sharing these skills with others as much as doing them herself.

Jennifer Folsom is a fiber artist focused on hand processing, handspinning, and book arts. Her work is driven by curiosity and the knowledge that develops through making. Professionally, Jennifer specializes in digital strategy, user-centered web design, and the development of engaging websites.

I originally studied fashion design in Tokyo, where I was raised, and worked as a costumer before I started to make fiberart. My work is a mixture of fiber techniques and book arts techniques. They are in collections at many universities, such asYale, Princeton, and SDAC, and have been exhibited across the US and Europe.

I found weaving in 1991 and was obsessed in that first encounter. It took a while to find my way through commercial weaving, product weaving, finally coming back to where it all started – art weaving. In my previous professional life I was a musician and oboe teacher so it was natural to gravitate to teaching weaving – that special moment when someone lights up with understanding…