Events at the Textile Heritage Museum at Glencoe, North Carolina

Events

Native American Weaving Traditions

On November 5, 2011, the Textile Heritage Museum at Glencoe, N. C. will open a new exhibit on Native American weaving traditions, as part of North Carolina’s annual Native American Heritage Month activities. While most are aware of the more modern, industrially based weaving traditions of the Piedmont, many would be unaware that America’s Native peoples had traditions that predated those by hundreds of years. “I think this will be a good way for folks to learn a little something about Native people both here in North Carolina and in other areas as well,” said Forest Hazel, Tribal Historian for the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation, who is curating the exhibit. The exhibit will focus primarily on the textile making arts of the Eastern Band of Cherokee, from western North Carolina, the Navajo of Arizona and New Mexico, and the Maya of Guatemala and southern Mexico, and will include examples of finger weaving, backstrap loom weaving, and regular floor loom weaving. Other topics that may be of interest to visitors will be Native quilting, and basket weaving. Also on display will be a collection of pre-columbian (200BC - 1350 AD) native Latin American textile samples from a private collection as well as other native American artifacts from and around Alamance County.

Directions & contact info.

The Textile Heritage Museum is located at 2406 Glencoe Street, just off NC 62 North, about 3 miles north of Burlington, North Carolina, in the historic 1880 Glencoe Mill Village. For more information on this exhibit or other activities of the Museum, please call 336-260-0038 or go to www.textileheritagemuseum.org. The Museum is open Saturdays and Sundays from 1 PM to 4 PM, and group visits may be arranged at other times by appointment.
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Information specific to the Native American weaving traditions exhibit should be directed to:
Forest Hazel fhazel@mebtel.net 336.213.6111

Additional websites of interest

www.nativeamericanheritagemonth.org

www.obsn.org

www.nativeamericanheritagemonth.gov

www.sappony.org

www.ncmuseumofhistory.org/workshops/AI/TribalInfo/htm

www.ncmuseumofhistory.org and do a site search for American Indians

Come on out and enjoy historic 1880s Glencoe Mill Village and the GREAT BEND PARK at Glencoe
and take in as many of the activities as you like while you're here:

            Glencoe Paddle Access Park/Great Bend Park:
            Check out, lay back and enjoy the Haw River,
            Bird watch (NC Birding Trail), pack a picnic basket,
            Hike, run or bike up to a 9-mile loop or just a few hundred feet.
           Canoe, kayak, or fish the Haw River (your gear required).

            Visit the Textile Heritage Museum and
            Walk the village and read the historical street plaques.
            Read the 13 narrative panels on the old mill building that tell
            the story of mill families & the textile industry culture of the
            late 1800's through the early 1900's.

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