4th Annual Heritage Craft Weekend @ The NC Arboretum
September 26 & 27, 2009 from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm
located in the Baker Exhibit Center lobby, 2nd floor, outside and Heritage Garden.
List of Participants:
Basket Making & Paper Making
Nancy Basket, of Kudzu Kabin Designs, Walhalla, SC
Demonstratingkudzu basket making and kudzu paper making.
Selling handmade baskets and paper.
Beekeeping
Buncombe County Beekeepers, Asheville, NC
Demonstration: Living honey bee hive. Beekeeping demonstrations with full beekeeping suit and smokers. Members available to answer questions. Pollinator plants discussions.
Blacksmithing
Todd R. Miller, of Screaming Hot Iron, Fletcher, NC
Demonstration/discussion of the forging process. Presenting steps of how to transform a rusted piece of rebar into a beautiful tree branch for use on a decorative gate.
Selling fun and functional items for the garden, copper and cedar birdhouses and hooks, steel and wood birdbaths, and much more garden sculpture.
Broom making
Peter Werner, of Clean Sweep, Black Mountain, NC Member Southern Highlands Craft Guild.
Demonstrating: Beginning with tying a knot, Peter will demonstrate the process of making a broom through its various stages—selecting handles, adding layers of broom corn, making the broom flat, and trimming the excess.
Selling: Long handled and non-handled brooms such as various types of turkey wing brooms, hawk’s tail, pot scrubbers, cake testers, and veggie brushes.
Dyeing
Eva Thatcher, Bent Creek, NC
member WNC Fiber/Handweavers Guild
Demonstrating: how to dye yarn skeins with indigo. Will teach about types of yarn skeins and various dyeing techniques.
Fiber Art
Meg Manderson, Rabbit Hill Studio, Leicester, NC
member of the Asheville Area Arts Council Artist's Roundtable, the Asheville Quilt Guild and the Surface Design Association, and is co-founder of the WNC Fiber Arts Alliance. Meg is a fiber artist who uses a combination of hand-painted and hand-dyed fabrics and applique to create cloth landscapes.
Gardening
Buncombe County Master Gardeners Info Table
Demonstrating: Question and Answer, Garden how-to, trouble shooting, pest info, info leaflets.
Presentation: 2:00 PM Sunday—Fall Vegetable Gardening—Deb Maslowski
Selling: Gardening Almanac
Plant Sales-- Irises
Walter Hoover, Charles Street Gardens, Saluda, NC
Selling and discussing: many varieties of irises perfect for perennial borders, rain gardens, water gardens and craft uses. Japanese Iris, Northern and Southern Blue Flags
Pottery
Jimmy Savely, Tree of Life Potters, Zionville, NC
demonstrating and selling: handbuilt pottery impressed with fresh plants
Spinning
Eileen Hallman, New World Textiles, Black Mountain, NC
WNC Fiber/Handweavers Guild
Demonstrating: Spinning Cotton on the Charkha --ongoing demonstration of spinning cotton on a small,
folding, and very portable spinning wheel developed in India.
Weaving
Teena Teunge, LINT, Candler, NC
WNC Fiber/Handweavers Guild
Demonstrating: weaving of double cloth. Two layers separated vertically and horizontally for interesting color interaction on an 8 shaft portable floor loom.
Woodcarving
WNC Woodcarvers Club
Demonstrating: carving all types of animal, human, and spirit figures.