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Yes, yum Sauces, salt, granola, and more for locavores Southern staple Virginia-made swings update a classic DIY darling Joshua Farnsworth's TV-ready wood school

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WHO, WHAT, WEAR! From urban streetwear to artful accessories, local clothiers are bolstering Charlottesville's growing fashion scene

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WHAT’S INSIDE

FEATURE

SKETCHBOOK 13 13 Push and pull

An heirloom piece for fun and function.

14 Cozying up

A longtime weaver fosters her craft.

17 Sparkle and shine

Five jewelry makers worth adorning.

18 Crafted corners

Josh Farnsworth’s Wood and Shop on top.

20 Maker space

The Hive Cville gives crafters a haven.

22 Eat it up

Local treats, from sauce to sweets.

24 Hidden messages

Laurel Smith’s empowering bracelets.

27 Hides to seek

Leather goods upping the accessory game.

BY HAND 46

Corry Blanc is heating up handmade.

30 Wear local

Locally designed and, in many cases, locally made clothing is a booming, burgeoning industry in our area, from reimagined vintage patterns to urban accessories to wedding gowns. These seven designers are making a name for themselves—and for Charlottesville’s place in the fashion world.

Made in C-VILLE, a supplement to C-VILLE Weekly, is distributed in Charlottesville, Albemarle County and the Shenandoah Valley. No part of this publication may be reproduced without the written permission of the publisher.

Editor Laura Longhine. Made in C-VILLE Editor Caite Hamilton. Copy Editor Susan Sorensen. Creative Director Bill LeSueur. Graphic Designers Tracy Federico, Max March, Lorena Perez. Account Executives Erica Gentile, Theressa Leak, Alex Patterson, Kyle Robinson, Cindy Simmons, Beth Wood. Production Coordinator Faith Gibson. Publisher Aimee Atteberry. Chief Financial Officer Debbie Miller. Marketing Manager Anna Harrison. A/R Specialist Nanci Winter. Circulation Manager Billy Dempsey. ©2018 C-VILLE Weekly.

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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

MERRY MAKING! There was a meme recently trending on the internet: “When you support a small business, an actual person does a happy dance,” it says. The same, we reckon, can be said of makers. And in a time when even Amy Poehler is championing the handmade (see NBC’s “Making It”), there’s no better season to celebrate those artisans, crafters, and creatives than this one.

Consider Made in C-VILLE, our first-ever magazine dedicated to the defenders of the “buy local” movement, the “1, 2, 3, 4” for all of those celebratory jigs. Beyond this page, meet the jewelers, leather workers, designers, and woodworkers setting the standard for beautiful work in our area, and get a feel for what makes locally made goods sing louder than store-bought.—Caite Hamilton

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C-VILLE CAREERS

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WHY WORK AT FARMINGTON? Simply put, Farmington Country Club is a great place to work!

CURRENT OPPORTUNITIES: Culinary Cooks, Pastry Cooks, General Kitchen Workers Stewarding Supervisor

City of Charlottesville The City of Charlottesville is seeking qualified individuals to join our team who are highly motivated and who strive for success by demonstrating Charlottesville's Core Values of Leadership, Trust, Creativity, Respect, and Excellence.

Fitness Group Exercise Instructors, Massage Therapists Personal Trainers Food and Beverage Banquet and Restaurant Servers, Hosts

Now accepting applications for full-time, temporary, and seasonal positions.

The City employs Maintenance Workers, Police Officers, Administrative Professionals, Bus Operators, Recreation and Fitness Instructors, and much more who are dedicated to public service. Be part of our team and make a difference in the community!

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CHRIS CONKLIN BUILDS HEIRLOOM SWINGS FOR THE FUN OF IT hris Conklin grew up in a family that liked to figure things out. He learned at an early age how to restore old cars and farmhouses, and he loved to make things from scratch. So when his photographer wife, Jen Fariello, came home one day from a photo shoot in Ivy and asked him to make her an old-fashioned swing like the wooden one she’d used as a prop at the shoot, he immediately began his research.

“I came up with my own design,” says Conklin. “I wanted nice wood and nice ropes, something that looked good and lasted a long time.” He built a swing and hung it from one of the 200-year-old oak trees in the island of their driveway, and an interesting thing happened. “Everyone who came over would gravitate toward the swing,” he says. “A lot of people don’t have a swing, and it turns out they really like the feeling.”

So Conklin, whose day job is art director at the Daily Progress, developed a prototype and made a jig, and began constructing swings in batches of a dozen. They take two to three weeks to make from start to finish (given time-consuming steps like varnishing, which takes one day per side per coat), but the end result is smooth, strong, and gorgeous. He offers single and toddler versions plus a tire swing, and sells

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them on his own website as well as on Etsy under the name Vintage Swings.

Conklin’s swings feature some unique elements, starting with their length. “Modern swings are very short,” he says, “but the ones I sell have really long ropes [he has had customers special-order 100-foot lengths], so you can swing high.” The wood is white oak, double-planked for strength, and the rope, which resembles old-fashioned Manila but is synthetic to resist weather and rot, is hand-spliced.

Conklin’s 9-year-old can attest to the enduring joy of a great swing. “My son loves giant pushes,” he says. “I run at top speed and time it so I can push him up over my head, and he goes so high.” Conklin and his son will never forget those moments, and neither will those Ivy homeowners, whose original swing rotted away two years after Conklin’s wife spotted it. “They called me and I made a new one for them,” he says. This time, it’ll be an heirloom.

Chris Conklin’s Vintage Swings are made from double-planed white oak and hand-spliced rope.

In other words, they’re handmade to last.

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SKETCHBOOK TEXTILES

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Though Andrea Korotky has worked with her hands her whole life, it was weaving that satisfied her desire to “work really big.”

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he eight-harness loom that Andrea Korotky bought in mid-1970s New York is still a daily companion, standing in the corner of her Charlottesville studio. When the weaver sits down to the loom—which is roughly the size of an upright piano—her more than 40 years of experience are obvious in the fluidity and confidence of her movements.

It’s hard to imagine a time when this energetic woman was unfamiliar with her craft.

“I’ve worked with my hands all my life,” she says. Originally a knitter, she began exploring weaving to satisfy an urge to “work really big.” At the time, the native New Yorker was working at Newsweek magazine, and took weaving classes on the side, eventually studying industrial textiles at Parsons and the Fashion Institute of Technology. She bought her loom and had it shipped to her New York apartment. Next, she remembers, “I dreamed of a studio.”

A move to Long Island came with a non-winterized studio in a converted barn, but when Korotky and her husband came to Charlottesville in 2002, she finally had the chance to create a year-round studio and a full-time business—teaching, weaving, and selling looms. A. Korotky Studio occupies a ground-level space at the back of Korotky’s Charlottesville home: a wall of windows, bamboo floors, and jazz on the radio.

And, of course, there is Korotky’s work and materials and tools. Shawls, scarves, and other pieces hang on racks and drape over mannequins. The large loom holds a work in progress, and conical spools of yarn stand on shelves.

“It’s physical work, and I love that,” she says—and indeed, the act of weaving is a full-body activity, like the playing of a pipe

“ALWAYS, TWO THINGS COME TOGETHER IN WEAVING. YOU’RE BUILDING A PALETTE ON WHICH YOU WILL THEN PLACE OTHER COLOR. YOU’RE DESIGNING ALL THE TIME.” ANDREA KOROTKY

organ: rhythmic movements that involve feet along with hands. Yet she acknowledges that before the actual weaving can begin, there are many hours of planning, designing, and setup. That’s one reason she keeps several projects going at a time (on a recent day, a black-and-white houndstooth piece was taking shape on a small tabletop loom, while nearby, a tiny hand loom held Korotky’s experiment with adding raffia to a weaving).

Another reason is her sheer love for yarn. “The materials are glorious,” she says, then launches into a detailed discussion of the business of sourcing yarn, which has changed considerably since her early days as a weaver. After years of being

able to buy only imported yarns, she says, “American cotton and wool have come back.” She’s also interested in newly available hemp yarn, and even the equipment has gotten better. “Portable looms have come a long way. It makes it possible to get people hooked.”

Indeed, as a teacher, Korotky has shepherded many students into a long-term relationship with weaving, starting them on smaller looms. “Always, two things come together in weaving,” she says of the basic warp-and-weft structure of her craft.

“You’re building a palette on which you will then place other color. You’re designing all the time.”

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Recent projects include a table-runner-and-placemat set commissioned by a customer in Brooklyn, and the preparation of short courses on color and weave. Korotky teaches at the public library and oneon-one in her studio. She continually develops new ideas about color and pattern, which come to her from sources including dreams and odd glimpses of the world, like faded newspaper boxes at a bus stop.

She says weaving, for her, holds a lifetime of interest, beginning with its most basic quality: “the element of transformation. It is extremely interesting to me that I can take yarn and transform it into cloth…to make something you want to touch and use.”

This piece, titled “Red Talisman,” is a miniature tapestry (2 1/2 inches wide and 4 inches tall) in a series of pieces designed to be used as a cloth to carry in your pocket.

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SKETCHBOOK JEWELRY

HEART IN HAND

HANDMADE ACCESSORIES LEND A PERSONAL TOUCH

BY CAITE HAMILTON

What’s not to love about a handmade piece of jewelry? Here are five local gems worth wearing.

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DIRECT FROM NATURE

As a kid, Rebecca Perea-Kane would play with Fimo clay, sculpting tiny animals with her sister (“we must have made hundreds of them,” she says). No surprise, then, that her line of delicate jewelry celebrates the little things. More specifically, the little things found in nature. Each piece is cast directly from a natural element—lemon seeds, blackberry thorns, skipping stones—through a process of lost-wax casting. “I love how many natural objects look like abstract shapes from a distance,” Perea-Kane says. “On closer inspection you can see so much texture and detail.”

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ONE OF A KIND

Having collected vintage odds, ends, and doodads since childhood (“I grew up lagging behind my parents in all the antique malls, thrift shops, and junk stores, sometimes states away, following their lead and noticing every little thing”), Jen Deibert amassed quite a collection by the time she started making jewelry. Consequently, each of her pieces is unique, and sourced from wherever she goes. “It’s always been about the hunt for me,” she says. “I don’t think I love anything more than walking into an antique store for the first time and looking for treasure.”

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THIS ONE’S FOR THE GIRLS

Amy Bauer had always dabbled in the handmade, finding ways to create jewelry, clothing, and home décor for herself that she couldn’t find in shops.

Then, after years of creating jewelry for herself, friends, and her daughters as a hobby, the selftaught designer launched Girls Day Out. “I started

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off making mothers’ bracelets with mixed stones and sterling silver block letters with children’s names on them,” she says. “One of my most popular designs is still the personalized line of bracelets and necklaces in mixed metals and birthstones from my Heirloom collection.”

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THIS BEADING HEART

A pro bead-stringer and pearl-knotter by day, Jann White (aka this writer’s mom) started making her

own jewelry to sell on the side 30 years ago. “I’ve had an unnatural obsession with beads since I saw my first tiny glass bead so many years ago,” White says. “I started by beading T-shirts (hey, it was the ’60s), and then started stringing them and buying more and more, even skipping a meal or two so I could afford the more expensive ones.”

Her only rule for creating her pieces—which often feature semi-precious stones in bold colors with a statement pendant—is that she doesn’t design anything she wouldn’t wear herself.

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SKETCHBOOK LEARN

CARVING OUT COMMUNITY WOODWORKING ENTHUSIAST TEACHES TRADITIONAL TECHNIQUE

tepping into Joshua Farnsworth’s Wood and Shop schoolhouse is like wrenching open a time capsule.

Traditional woodworking instruments, including saws and handheld shaving tools, dangle from pegs and hug the surrounding white walls. Walking among the homemade workbenches and rustling up a rush of sawdust, you slip back a few centuries.

Farnsworth began to home in on his handyman identity as a kid. The youngest of 10 raised on a farm in rural Utah, he learned to program resourcefulness into his daily routine (an inclination that persists). In fact, he repurposed the very room he teaches craft courses in, remodeling an old RV garage into a vast makerspace boasting soaring ceilings and brimming with natural light.

This Earlysville lodge, an addendum to the lot he lives on with his wife and four children, backs up to the front porch, where he often shares conversation with students over supper. The Wood and Shop experience is homegrown in more ways than one.

Farnsworth’s fascination with traditional woodworking sprang from youthful admiration: He calls his brother-in-law, also an artisan, his “childhood hero.” Farnsworth, too, was propelled by a calling to create, later tinkering with woodworking in secondary school vocational classes (“That’s what I loved about growing up in the ’80s and ’90s,” he says). Even then, though, he couldn’t imagine this passion blossoming into a profession.

Fast forward past college and into the middle years of a real estate career. “The economy crashed out West, and I still had a company that I’d started with some people [in Virginia],” he says.

After returning East, the other business buckled under similar pressures, nudging him back toward carpentry. “I think I was glad because it pushed me back into what I love doing,” he says.

But Farnsworth didn’t set out to make money from woodworking exactly. His inherent enthusiasm and thirst for intellectual exploration naturally propelled him to the peak of the niche scene. He accrued introductory materials, assembled a site, launched a YouTube channel, and recorded tours of renowned furniture makers’ and tool collectors’ workshops. The money followed.

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GAINING GROUND Farnsworth has amassed an international following, drawing in emails from fans dotting the globe. One eager student even jetted cross-country from Colorado to take a class with him in person.

Farnsworth eventually found himself in the same space as his second childhood hero, Roy Underhill of PBS’ “The Woodwright’s Shop.”

Despite his indisputable celebrity, Farnsworth oozes humility.

He credits his entrepreneurial spirit and situation in the present media moment as the primary factors driving his success.

“When I first started getting really interested in hand tools,

Joshua Farnsworth’s Earlysville woodworking school, Wood and Shop, is the result of a reignited childhood passion.

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there weren’t a lot of resources available, especially online,” he says. “I jumped in at the right time.”

He also uses his platform to shine a light on other talented artisans who lack marketing and/or digital media skills. He offers other experts teaching slots at his school, features them on his site, and is expanding a digital marketplace to connect them with potential customers. “There are a lot of unsung heroes out there,” he says.

Farnsworth reflects on how his professional journey—though at times turbulent—resulted in this gorgeously unexpected outcome. “I guess everybody over time is kind of making a tapestry,” he says. “There [are] some dark threads—hard times in your life or struggles—but then

at the end, I hope you look back and say, ‘The tapestry wouldn’t have been this beautiful without those times.’” He underscores the joy of teaching—of pushing people past fears of failure and granting them temporary refuge from the dizziness of the digitized world.

To Farnsworth, artistic integrity means simplicity, and beauty equals imperfection. He mainly focuses on Shaker furniture, highlighting how neutral designs transcend time and constantly oscillating trends. It is this trade he works to sustain, an act of cultural and environmental influence. Although only one man, he recognizes his ability to have an enduring influence—to usher in continued artistry, in-craft connectivity, and furniture functionality for years to come.

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SKETCHBOOK DIY

CREATING A BUZZ

LOCAL ARTISTS ARE READY TO COLLABORATE AT THE HIVE

BY MARY SHEA WATSON

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hat happens when two artists walk in to a bar? Ask textile artist Tobiah Mundt and painter Kim Anderson and you’ll get the same answer: It’s an immediate connection. Both women relocated to Charlottesville with their families, Mundt from northern Virginia and Anderson from Nebraska, and sought a stronger connection to the arts community. In January of 2018, Mundt was looking for a studio and felt the space where she created her wool sculptures shouldn’t be “quiet and lonely.” After her children started attending school, Anderson reached a similar conclusion: When surrounded by people, she became a better artist.

The two connected during Craft Cville’s Galentine’s Day pop-up over their shared vision for a creative and collaborative maker space. Eight months and one big renovation later, that vision became reality. In early October 2018, Mundt and Anderson opened The Hive, an art-andcraft lounge in McIntire Plaza where visitors can order up an art project along with coffee, small bites, beer, or wine.

Coffee and treats come from Milli Coffee Roasters and Paradox Pastry.

“The art bar is 16 feet long,” Mundt says.

“The [project] tray comes with instructions and everything you need. You’ll be able to order from a seasonal menu that will change.”

For Anderson, what makes the space unique is that visitors can walk in anytime the lounge is open and create a tangible work of art. The price of each art project on The Hive’s menu ranges from $1 to $20.

“You’re engaging with the arts without having to invest,” Anderson says.

The lounge’s décor also celebrates the work of local artists and entrepreneurs.

Sculptor Lily Erb created The Hive’s sign and a fence surrounding an interior play area for children, and Wade Cotton of Timber Made Company created the lounge’s bar out of wood from fallen trees.

Four art studios for rent inside the lounge are named after African Ameri-

Co-owners Tobiah Mundt and Kim Anderson will offer art projects, maker workshops, and more at their new art-and-craft lounge, The Hive.

can-owned businesses demolished in the razing of Vinegar Hill. So far, two of the four studios have been named after Carr’s and Bell’s, Vinegar Hill businesses Mundt identified with the help of Tanesha Hudson, an activist and executive producer of the forthcoming documen-

tary A Legacy Unbroken: The Story of Black Charlottesville.

“When my husband told me we were moving here, I Googled Charlottesville,” Mundt remembers. She says the history of Vinegar Hill was the first thing she found.

“I had to ask myself, ‘How can I raise my

family here? How can I build my business “IF YOU DON’T HAVE THE to honor what happened here?’”

WORDS, YOU PUT IT IN In addition to hosting maker workshops that range from bows and arrows SCULPTURE OR DRAW IT. to bath bombs, Mundt says there will be WE WANT TO MAKE ART more programming at The Hive that celIN ALTERNATIVE WAYS.” ebrates African American artists and professionals who have contributed to TOBIAH MUNDT the Charlottesville community. UVA English professor and seamstress Lisa Woolfork will lead evening sewing classes in the lounge’s mezzanine workshop area.

Mundt discovered Woolfork and her work by following the Instagram hashtag #cvilleart, which led her to Woolfork’s account @blackwomenstitch.

“I was like, ‘Is she in Charlottesville?

There are black women in Charlottesville sewing?’ So I contacted Lisa,” says Mundt.

“She keeps sending me project ideas. The number-one thing people have asked for is sewing classes.”

Anderson and Mundt will serve as craft-tenders behind the bar to provide tools and fuel for visitors purchasing an art project. When they’re not helping with a workshop or hosting a private party, Mundt and Anderson hope to find time for their own artistic pursuits. Anderson wants to continue teaching custom chalk painting and stenciling classes. Mundt plans to sculpt her wool creatures when the space isn’t busy. She says it will be an interesting artistic challenge, as much of Mundt’s work is deeply personal. Her needle-felted creations are simultaneously haunting and child-like, akin to the stuff of science-fiction monsters or a child’s nightmare.

“I think a lot of people make assumptions about my work and about me,” Mundt says. “The Hive is an open place. I want people to ask about [my work].

What’s scary about it? Not all of our artists are sugary sweet artists. …Everyone has many sides to them.”

Two artists with studios in The Hive are multimedia printmaker Emily Vanderlinden and jewelry maker Kelly Cline. Anderson and Mundt will rent the studios on a yearly basis and hope to add more artists and studios in the future.

They also plan to take The Hive on the road by hosting workshops for children in the hospital.

“If you don’t have the words, you put it in sculpture or draw it,” says Mundt. “We want to make art in alternative ways.”

On any given day, Mundt says kids visiting the lounge might get to paint on the wall with their feet, or they might use “loads and loads” of what Anderson and Mundt cite as most parents’ least favorite art material: glitter.

“It will become a beautiful patina on our floor,” Anderson says.

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No one knows the phrase “food is an international language” more than Yvonne Cunningham. The sauce-maker developed the recipe for her “Italian gravy” (so-called because it’s so thick) while living in Naples during her husband’s tour in the Navy. It was there that she met a 78-year-old grandma (“nonna” in Italian) who didn’t speak English. Cunningham

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didn’t speak Italian, but together they cooked and developed what Cunningham calls “a beautiful relationship through food.” The red sauce, which Cunningham has been making for 30 years, is just like they prepared it back then, with authentic ingredients (including San Marzano tomatoes imported from Naples) and produce from the summer garden. She recommends spooning it over cavatappi pasta with a pile of grated Parmigiano Reggiano on top.

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ne night when artist Laurel Smith was sleeping, her mind projected her future onto the backs of her eyes. She dreamt up a whirring dremel tool, a jewelry-making instrument then somewhat unfamiliar to her, and awoke with a newfound sense of purpose. A D.C.-based event planner in her 20s at the time, Smith sensed she was on the cusp of a major career breakthrough.

Smith is a Charlottesvillian through and through, from the maternity wing of Martha Jefferson hospital to the halls of Albemarle High School. She graduated from James Madison University with a degree in studio art, then relocated briefly to Washington, D.C., and Hoboken, New Jersey, before returning home.

Just as Smith cannot divorce her hometown from her story, art is integral to her existence. Creating has always pointed her toward comfort and confidence—a happy mashup of emotions she first remembers experiencing as a young Spectrum summer camper at Tandem Friends School. In fact, this is where her fascination with calligraphy first sprouted.

Decades later, Smith is the frontwoman of a celebrated, selflaunched jewelry brand, “laurel denise,” which features bracelets incorporating inspirational messages engraved in beautiful calligraphy. She leads a fully female staff—including her full-time assistant, Nancy Cronauer, and a map-scattered crew of bracelet makers (aka “Mama Elves”)—in the quest toward artistic

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“EVEN IF [MY JEWELRY] IS JUST EMPOWERING WOMEN, ALL THE WOMEN I KNOW ARE EMPOWERING EVERYBODY ELSE AROUND THEM,” SHE SAYS. “WE’RE THE DOERS.”

excellence. Smith is two women in one: She With her delicate jokes that she’s “40 percent artist and 60 calligraphied bracelets, percent business.” Her online shop offers jewelry-maker Laurel a sweeping array of accessories and home Smith taps into the bigger picture. goods, including options for product customization, and her pieces put multiple mediums into conversation, including leather, metal, and glass.

A mother of two, Smith cites “time” as the most pressing part of this gig. Between caring for and carting around her kids, she hunches over worktables in her home, where her makeshift studio is based. Although her team attends two large wholesale events in New York City each year, most of her sales are shipped directly from her home address. These large-scale trade shows, while excellent opportunities to showcase new work and make human connections with customers, take a toll timewise and financially.

“My lights alone cost $2k to rent,” Smith says. “I find that I reach more people through the internet.”

Smith sees her career as a calling to serve others. Her handwritten messages adorn the wrists of assault survivors (“Be you bravely”), breast cancer battlers (“She walks in beauty”), mothers enduring miscarriages (“Dwell in hope”), missionaries (“Be strong and courageous”), and general accessory-lovers alike. Although her curling calligraphy and dainty bracelets may be geared more toward women than men, she points to the drip-down effect of her art’s influence: The messaging behind it all unfurls like a song, and everyone will want to sing along.

“Even if [my jewelry] is just empowering women, all the women I know are empowering everybody else around them. We’re the doers. We lift up our husbands. We help shape our kids,” Laurel says. “It trickles down to empowering people in general.”

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THE OTHER THREE P E R CE N T

LOCAL CLOTHES MAKE THE TOWN

BY ERIKA HOWSARE

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Here’s the next level, folks. You might be eating local and shopping local, but are you wearing local?

The garments we don often come from very faraway places and seem to just appear out of nowhere; an oft-reported statistic from the American Apparel & Footwear Association states that 97 percent of the clothes sold in the U.S. were made overseas.

“We’re so alienated from our clothes,” is how Sarah Tremaine, an Albemarle clothing maker, puts it.

But there is an antidote—locally designed and, in many cases, locally crafted clothing. It comes as no surprise that creative Charlottesville is home to a bunch of clothiers, peddling everything from streetwear to high-end handbags. Read on to meet seven of these companies.

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shared love of vintage styles and unusual fabrics was the genesis of Charlottesville Dress Company, founded

by Susan Stimart and Carla Quenneville. In May 2017, Stimart approached Quenneville, the former owner of Les Fabriques, to ask if she could repair Stimart’s vintage silk/wool blend suit. The two got to talking about vintage patterns (Quenneville had a collection) and African wax-print cottons (Stimart had just brought some home from Paris). “I said, ‘What if we started a company?’” remembers Stimart.

A year and a half later, CDC has developed a line of women’s styles (and men’s bow ties) plus the capacity to custom-design dresses, coats, and other garments. “We’ve had a great time with customers,” says Stimart—like the time a mother of a bride ordered a sari blouse to match a sari she already owned, to be worn at her daughter’s Sri Lanka wedding.

The company promises stunning fabrics, expert design, and all-local manufacturing (CDC is partnering with the International Rescue Committee to employ refugees as sewers). With Beth Pizzichemi working the media side, CDC sells online and at pop-up events and fashion shows. Their designs will hit the runway at a D.C. fashion show December 12.

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arad Davenport started a clothing line two years ago and named it Vinegar Hill Vintage Clothing after the Charlottesville neighborhood that was razed in the 1960s. The name is also a tribute to Vinegar Hill Magazine, which is produced by Davenport’s friend Eddie Harris: all in all, a gesture of love and respect to the local African American community and the neighborhood where Davenport has family roots.

“I have oral history about Vinegar Hill that was told to me all my life,” he says. In creating his line of T-shirts, hats, and other items, he hopes not only to create a “bridge to the younger generation,” opening conversations about the important local history embodied in the Vinegar Hill name, but also to begin recreating a culture of black entrepreneurship that was damaged when Vinegar Hill was destroyed. “We want people to know there’s precedent for [African American business ownership],” he says. “We’re normalizing that; we want people to own their economic state.”

It’s still a family affair for Davenport to produce his garments with their clean, classic logos; he gets help from his mother and children, and sells online and through the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center. But he hopes the business will grow. “One day, my hope is we could have a full-fledged factory in downtown Charlottesville,” he says.

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hen Charlotte Friese was a student at the Savannah College of Art and Design, she did a project she calls “micro-scapes”: small wall sculptures with laser-cut plywood frames encircling abstract compositions of silk, organza, stones, and glass. Now, two years out of school, she’s pushed the micro-scape idea in another direction: a line of high-end handbags. With laser-cut plywood bodies and hand-felted flaps, the bags are a study in contrasts.

“I love the combination of something hard with something soft,” she says. “Nature is a huge inspiration. I love moss and lichen and wood grain.”

She also aims to source her materials ethically, sustainably, and, when possible, locally. Handbag designs start with sketches, then be-

come CAD files that go to a local laser-cutting shop. Friese assembles the wooden bodies, sands and oils the wood to make it friendly to the touch, and adds a lining made of European machined felt for durability. Then she hand-felts the outer flap, a swirl of color inspired by a specific landscape (like “Painted Desert” or “Sedona”) that makes each piece unique.

CFK Designs, her company, is just getting off the ground; Friese has three juried craft shows on her calendar and hopes to work with local boutiques to sell her bags. She’s also developing a line of clothing. “I’m working with a natural dye company in Pennsylvania, so I can have multiple natural dye colors,” she says. “I’m thinking about expanding to other accessories, and hopefully a wider range of prices.”

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n 2007, when Gohar Ayvazyan Beaver moved from Armenia to Charlottesville to be with her new American husband, Hovhannes, she wasn’t sure that she’d be able to put her fashion design education to work here.

“Is this the right place for my business?” she wondered. But she managed to produce a casual clothing line that was sold in a couple of local boutiques.

Meanwhile, the couple noticed the burgeoning wedding industry in Charlottesville. Having made a handful of custom wedding gowns, Beaver began to think about focusing her company, Ayvazyan & de Beauvoir, on bridal fashion.

That was about two years ago, and her home studio is now geared up for

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brides—full of white and ivory silk and lace, and featuring a rack of sample gowns in a variety of styles from boho to modern. Brides often come with photos of a gown they like, Beaver says, and then she takes them through the process of choosing fabrics, customizing the fit, and adjusting all the details of the design. “It’s fun to see the women’s reactions when they see it being custom made,” says her husband.

Word-of-mouth, and being a featured vendor on The Knot, have helped the Beavers grow the business, and they see themselves on an upward trend. Someday, says Gohar, “It’s my dream to make high-end couture wedding gowns.”

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ocal streetwear brand Dreamin’ Diamonds first said “Hello, world” inside the sneaker boutique 89Till back in 2016. Rob Gray, co-owner of the now-defunct shop, is the brains behind Dreamin’. He sees his line of T-shirts, hoodies, hats, and jackets as a way to inspire people, especially at-risk youth, to reach for the stars.

“The dream represents the abstract,” he explains, “and the diamond represents the dream manifested.”

He enjoyed a taste of success himself when one of the company’s hat designs, featuring an altered version of the “Rugrats” character Susie Carmichael,

caught on online. Dreamin’ Diamonds sold more than 2,000 of that particular hat, with Susie sporting rubies for eyes. Other designs feature a black panther with the words “Free Huey,” or the logo of a certain national donut chain tweaked to read, of course, Dreamin’ Diamonds.

Gray, an Albemarle native, handles design and every other aspect of the budding company. He sells through his website, and hopes to gain a retail presence to give his products wider exposure. “I’ve always been into fashion,” he says. “Your clothes kind of speak to your identity.”

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osalba Valentino learned to sew at her mother’s knee and, in high school, started taking old clothes apart and putting them back together just to figure out how they were constructed. By the time she finished college at VCU, she was skilled enough at clothing design and sewing that she was selling her pieces in a Richmond boutique. “I was experimenting a lot,” she says.

Today, she has at least 15 years of professional sewing behind her and, between making alterations to wedding gowns (her bread and butter), she continues to create original clothing pieces under her own label, Rosalba Couture, out of her Nelson County studio. She makes handbags, accessories, jewelry—and lots of dresses. “I have a penchant for dresses that are not formal but are fancy,” she says, adding that she sees a need especially for mother-of-the-bride or -groom dresses that aren’t “too old” in style.

Wanting to bring a bit of badly needed eco-consciousness to the fashion industry, she specializes in custom reuse and updating of vintage clothing. “Most of my things are a combination of recycled or found clothing and new elements,” she says. “That collaging is my specialty.”

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arah Tremaine worked for years as an environmental consultant, helping to remediate a Superfund site. But on the side, she was a serious crafter— knitting, quilting, basket-weaving, and painting. She began selling her work at craft shows a dozen years ago and, more recently, “decided to buckle down and make it a real business, not just a hobby,” she says. “Now I’m into it 24/7.”

As Sunset Farm Studio, she focuses on two main techniques to create artful clothing. One is Nuno felting, which results in seamless garments made of a blend of wool and silk: tops, tunics, and dresses. The other is botanical printing:

laying plant materials onto silk and using a steaming process to print the shapes of leaves and stems right onto the fabric.

Tremaine’s earlier career informs her new one—she tries to source natural U.S. fabrics when she can, and uses almost exclusively natural dyes. Those include bark dyes sourced from a local woodworker, walnuts she collects herself, and goldenrod from her garden.

Having sold through The Barn Swallow for some time, she’s now trying to expand through more craft shows and into the boutique realm. “I do a lot of custom work,” she says. “People like the idea of being able to buy something from the person who made it.”

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So when the owners of steakhouse Prime 109 approached Blanc—whose Blanc Creatives steel cookware they’d been using in their Belmont restaurant, Lampo, for years—to fabricate something similar, he thought, “I could make that.”

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Blanc says. “I was able to do so with a series of gears that took several months of trial and error and a few prototypes.” The resulting product—which measures 9 feet long and almost 3 feet deep, was fabricated from stainless steel with brass accents. The center, a wood-fired oven, is flanked on both sides with grills that can be adjusted in height over the fire below.

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