Craft – Page 4 – Blue Ridge National Heritage Area

Joe Thrift

Joe Thrift is a violin maker and fiddler who has steeped himself in all aspects...

Marjorie Dula Roberts links several generations of quilters from Wilkes County. Marjorie's mother, grandmother, and...

Shirley Cloer is a Cherokee artist and manager of the Oconaluftee Indian Village in Cherokee....

A once almost-lost art, Cherokee finger weaving is now practiced by a few very talented...

When Eloise Maney was in college, she took an art class in which there was...

Cherokee artist Robert Queen practices traditional forms of woodcarving that were handed down to him...

"I've worked on them ever since I was a young man," Earl Moretz says of...

Since 2003, David McEntire and his father Mack have been making guitars, mandolins, and banjos...

Tal Holbrook's home and workshop are in the Traphill community of Wilkes County, near where...

Virginia McClellan thoroughly enjoys working in the Crossnore Weaving Room at the Crossnore School. "This...

A visit to Mike Harman's workshop in Ashe County is a lesson in the history...

"I've always loved the banjo," Charles Gilbert says. He moved to Rutherford County following military...