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Erin Hogan, Director
Erin Hogan is a textile artist from Athens, Ohio, known for her cool dragon sculptures made from upcycled materials. With a theater costume background and experience as a librarian, she’s now the creative director at Seriously Sick Socks Studios, where she sculpts fun creatures from old socks. Check her out on Instagram!
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Coral Wedel, Director
Coral Wedel is an artist, designer, and educator focused on sustainable fashion in Southeast Ohio. As the founding Director of Hocking College’s Fashion Design and Retail Merchandising program, she combines industry experience with environmental responsibility and aims to empower communities through regional textile systems and practical skill-sharing.
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Lisa Heinz, Founder and Board President
Lisa Heinz is the founder of Southeast Ohio Fibershed and has been an entrepreneur in Athens County since 1992. With a background in digital marketing, she blends that with her passion for wool. In 2019, she started Southeast Ohio Fiberworks to support local wool producers and provide unique yarns and supplies to fiber artists.
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Reflections on a Textile Future Worth Making
The Rust Belt Fibershed Symposium fostered community, and optimism, inspiring participants to collaboratively envision a vibrant textile future filled with possibilities.
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Shearing Weekend 2022: Day 1
We choose the word “weekend” this year because the shearing of about 150 sheep happened in the space of three days across five southeast Ohio farms. Today, we’d like to talk about the two farms sheared on Thursday May 26. As shearing days approached, the southeast Ohio region experienced some overnight rain with more to…
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Have You Kissed a Llama Today?
About two hours south of Athens, Ohio, across the Ohio River from Huntington, West Virginia, a 16-head herd of llama spend their days grazing, lounging, and dust bathing. Some of them get to eat treats their owner provides by mouth, a “kiss” if you will. There’s a reason for this: the llamas are trained as…
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Waste Wool-to-Pellet-to-Healthy Soil
The United States wool industry has a waste problem, and we can find it at the very source of the wool we seek to use. We find waste wool at shearing time on the farm as fleece is wholly discarded because farmers can not find a market for it. We find waste at a local…
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Jacob Shearing Day, Washington County, Ohio
Southeast Ohio Fibershed invites you to attend our Jacob Shearing Day! Did you know that sheep must be sheared at least once per year to stay healthy? Some sheep even need sheared twice per year to keep their long locks beautiful. If you’ve never seen sheep being sheared in person, please consider a visit to…
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Shave ‘Em to Save ‘Em Program Participation
Have you heard of the Livestock Conservancy? They are a nonprofit membership organization that works “to protect endangered livestock and poultry breeds from extinction”. The farm animals they track run the gamut from chickens to horses, rabbits to… you guessed it, sheep! The breeds of sheep the Conservancy tracks are unusual and rare heritage breeds…
Southeast Ohio Fibershed
Explore Appalachian fibercraft through history, encourage communities to learn about sustainable textiles, and develop skills with hands-on learning.
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