Dyed in the Wool: Finding Colors in Nature
With our upcoming Community Dye Days, starting monthly on April 23rd, we’re taking a look at the different…
Craft
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Dyeing Easter Eggs with Kitchen Scraps (Repost)
Last year, we released a blog post about how to dye Easter eggs with kitchen staples, like ground turmeric. This…
At the End – You Meet God
Despite traveling across the Southern Appalachian Mountains throughout my childhood, I was not introduced to the Foxfire books…
Selecting a Spinning Wheel
We often get requests from folks about buying looms or spinning wheels. Our Village Weaver, Sharon Grist, recently…
“It Just Come Natural”: C.P. Ligon, Folk Artist
New year, new you! We’ve pulled an article from our archives to encourage you to meet your resolutions,…
Woodworking in the Mountains
If you visit the museum this fall, you’ll encounter our newest exhibit on woodworking in Appalachia. In a…
Easter Egg Dyeing with Kitchen Scraps
Last year, we released a blog post about how to dye Easter eggs with kitchen staples, like ground…
Make Your Own Clay Using 3 Household Ingredients
Making your own clay is a very simple process. In this post, we are going to use 3…
Trash Tutorial: Fire Starter
We’ve got another trash tutorial for you! Toilet paper seems to be a hot topic these days, but…
Trash Tutorial: Coffee Hand Scrub
With the current pandemic, many of us are reducing the number of trips we take to the store,…
Log Hewing
Curator Barry Stiles takes us through the process of hand-hewing a log. All log cabins in this region…
Simple Homemade Cloth Napkins
In this day and age, disposable items have become a way of life. So much so, that when…
