TWO RIVERS - Tucked away in a corner of the city is a longtime business that has been spinning yarns for years. Since 1923, three generations of the Webster family have been working at this Crescent ...

4-H volunteer Lindsay McHugh, right, assists Aileen Gravot, 12, and her mom Christine make a macrame bracelet during a 4-H Yarn Club meeting, in Pitman, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013. Linda McHugh’s Pitman ...

RHINEBECK, N.Y. — Long before people’s purchases could be tracked through computer IP addresses and electronic means, there was the simple ability to use apparel to know something about buying habits.

PUTNEY — In 1980, Claire Wilson, a soft-spoken Quaker now in her 90s and still living in Putney, met in a study group of 12 or so folks at the home of Paul and Dorothea Stockwell in West Brattleboro.

You sometimes can’t even imagine what you don’t know about a subject until you talk to an expert. Enter Marcail McWilliams, owner of Valley Oak Wool and Fiber Mill and expert about all things wool.

Like knitting and crocheting, spinning — the process of twisting fibers together to make yarn — is enjoying a comeback. Textile artists want “to control the front end of their yarn,” says Sarah ...

The Schmidt family, owners of Kraemer Textiles in Nazareth, has introduced a product in response to a trend that has been called “the new yoga.” Hand knitting is enjoying a healthy revival, with Julia ...