Fiberhouse Collective
Creating cloth that heals.
02/11/2023
Our Founder, Nica will be bringing cloth that heals to Buncombe county public schools! Thanks to Arts AVL 🕸
ArtsAVL | Arts AVL Announces 11 Arts for Schools Grantees ArtsAVL is thrilled to announce that 11 artists and arts organizations have been awarded the Arts for Schools Grant. The grant supports nonprofit arts organizations and qualified teaching artists in Buncombe County providing arts-focused performances, workshops, residencies, and field trips for K-12...
22/10/2023
A warm welcome at our doorstep. Our first private session on the mountain resulted in some beautiful local color! Reds and oranges from madder and yellows from the last marigolds in our garden. If you want to learn natural dyeing (or weaving or felting) come on thru! .
06/10/2023
She’s here! Our tiger cane serum is bottled up and ready to be sent your way. Made with Japanese knotweed root hand harvested from our homestead in the blue ridge mountains of Western North Carolina, each 2oz bottle contains only knotweed (also known as tiger cane) and carefully sourced vegetable glycerine. This serum can be applied both externally (topically on your skin) and internally (with water, in mixed drinks, or on its own) daily .
Japanese knotweed has been traditionally used internally or externally for inflammation. A concentrated source of beneficial plant compounds like polydatin, emodin, physcion, and most notably resveratrol. This serum may offer inflammatory and antioxidant benefits and immune support ~ learn more at the fiberhouse collective market place on our site (link in the bio) .
fiberhousecollective.com/marketplace
23/09/2023
our first kudzu shirt made from kudzu processed at this year’s vine to cloth kudzu camp!
19/06/2023
Kudzu Camp: VINE to CLOTH Registration Kudzu Culture + Fiberhouse Collective are partnering for another experimental, collaborative gathering of fiber artists, ecologists, foresters, farmers and makers. Together we will explore the traditional methods of kudzu vine fiber processing while also reimagining our processes. LB and Nica will h...
13/02/2023
Felting with 💕 for Valentine’s Day or the day of heart as they say at odyssey school. In this picture 3 fourth graders are using local wool from our fibershed. Next week we will be needle felting in some naturally dyed yarn 🧶 .
17/01/2023
LB holding up a sample made during the warmer months at our last Vine to Cloth Kudzu Camp with for a recent article in Gravy Magazine🍃 this prototype is created mostly from the core of the vine — a co-product separate from the shiny bast. you can see our sourcebook peaking out up top and a collection of kudzu cloth samples poking out. We are excited for what next summer holds, after the wintering, it’s harvest time again, and we hope you will join us because we have abundant plans for this abundant plant collaborator .
17/11/2022
From vine to vessel. Thank you .studio for teaching us how to collect, split, and process kudzu for basketry! We now have exciting ideas for all of those woody vines in our tree line .
15/10/2022
Look at this little mandrake baby growing amongst the kudzu. We are out here celebrating the understory today. The kudzu roots, the daikon, the hidden gems.
The new home of fiberhouse collective taking shape ~ mandrake mountain farm
13/09/2022
So grateful to be a part of the affiliate community. Find out how you can support regional Fibersheds :
24/08/2022
The making of kudzu cloth. The first week in August we gathered for a very special abundant time together. A big thank you to LB and for working with us to create kudzu cloth!! Deep gratitude to for loaning us the loom and for helping us dress the loom with a h**p warp (next year we hope to have an industrially spun kudzu warp to share). We naturally dyed the kudzu vine fiber with locally grown madder and foraged osage orange during a past invasive fiber study group. This was our second annual gathering, but first as a affiliate. It takes a village 🕸
17/07/2022
Registration is open! Join for 4 days of harvesting, processing, spinning, weaving (and a bit of paper making?!) with one of the most misunderstood plants in the south. Vine to Cloth KUdZU Camp august 5 - 8 at LB’s spot in Marshall, NC. come for one day or all of them. See you in the weeds 🍃🕸💚
Create cloth that heals with us.
More and more people understand farm to table when it comes to their food, we explore from farm to fabric – then back to farm. Partnering with farmers, artists, designers, fiber folks, and scientists we are studying soil to soil methods. Our research is shared publicly through the pages of our Workbook series.
We facilitate hands-on learning experiences for individuals, teams, and classes that explore closed-loop textile creation. We hold space for participants to explore their inherent creativity through handcrafted textiles. We explore the threads that connect us through the Fiberhouse Residency program. We create cloth that heals.
Join the movement! Head over to fiberhousecollective.com to learn more.
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