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Crossnore Weavers: "A Working Museum"
continues a tradition for The Crossnore School begun by founder Mary Martin Sloop in 1920. "Our aim," Sloop wrote in an early catalog,--to keep alive an almost forgotten art; to cherish in the young people of these mountains a reverence for this art; to provide a means of livelihood and pleasure for women and girls; to furnish homes with beautiful and lasting material."These efforts provided unprecedented job opportunities for women of the isolated, impoverished areas as well as a tangible means of promoting and sustaining a growing school and children's home.

Exhibits

A time line of Crossnore School and Weavers. Early hand woven tea towels and coverlets from natural died wool. Weavers working on hand built looms. Letters from Mamie Eisenhower and Barbara Bush. String reeds from Josie Mast Wade who wove a room size rug for President Wilson's White house bedroom. Fine art from Elliott Dangerfield (1859-1932) and Elizabeth O'Neill Verner (1883-1979)

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