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Tuesday
Nov132012

Craft Week in Asheville

DateTuesday, November 13, 2012 at 10:34AM

Folk Art Center

Our first stop in the beautiful city of Asheville was the Folk art center.  Here we observed how the womens craft guild began.  Francis Goodrich began this movement of getting the women of Appalacia involved in crafting as their hobbies and chores in order to boost the economy through selling these crafts.  

Handmade in America

Center for Craft Creativity and Design

The Oriole Mill

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