Founded by artist, researcher, and educator Nica Rabinowitz, Fiberhouse Collective is a place-based textile project rooted in a working homestead in Marshall. Its Fiberhouse Farm serves as a living laboratory where land stewardship and handcraft meet, with kudzu research at the heart of its distinctive approach to cloth. The collective opens that work to learners and visiting makers through community-based textile education.
WE GATHERWhitney Crutchfield founded WE GATHER after more than a decade spent weaving, dyeing, and teaching, choosing an independent textile practice over mass production and fleeting trends. From its Brooklyn studio, the company creates handmade home textiles and teaches people to work with cloth through accessible, hands-on experiences. Its work centers on natural fibers, low-impact dyeing, and functional pieces intended to become heirlooms.BROOKLYN, NY
Hudson Valley Textile ProjectBorn from an impromptu partnership between a yarn-shop owner and a mill owner, the Hudson Valley Textile Project is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit built around strengthening the region’s natural-fiber community. It helps local fiber businesses work together, fills supply-chain gaps through efforts such as Clean Fleece, and connects makers with education and market opportunities across the Northeast.MECHANICVILLE, NY
Merida StudioMerida Studio creates original rugs and textile artwork entirely in-house at its Fall River workshop, where designers, weavers, and craftspeople turn natural fibers into made-to-order pieces. Since 2017, the studio has collaborated with Paris-based artist and weaver Sylvie Johnson through a nine-year artist residency that produced its limited-edition Atelier series. Its work is designed as more than floor covering: durable textiles intended to be lived with, conserved, and passed on.New York, NY
Pam Pawl TextilesFrom her Dunedin studio, artist and textile educator Pam Pawl creates limited-edition handwoven scarves, wraps, throws and interior accessories, using hand-dyed yarns and multi-harness loom structures to bring color and pattern together. Pawl’s textile practice grew from a farm upbringing with sheep and a spinning wheel, formal study in textile design, and more than a decade maintaining a Philadelphia weaving studio. She also teaches weaving and dyeing through private classes, online instruction and workshops for guilds and conferences.PHILADELPHIA, PA