Allie Dudley is a textile artist currently working primarily in weaving, stitching, quilting, spinning, and dyeing. Their work originates in historical textiles, drawing on Appalachian coverlets and antique stitching samplers, with a current focus on creating textiles completely from the ground up, from spinning and dyeing yarn through weaving, in order to connect more deeply with their fiber ancestors and the land where the fiber originates. Allie works as the Textiles & Natural Fibers Coordinator at the Folk School and was a member of the South Arts Emerging Traditional Artists Program inaugural cohort. They are currently living and weaving on Tsalagi (Cherokee) land in western North Carolina.
Photo courtesy of Robert Alan Grand.
