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These Tangled Threads
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At Biltmore Industries in 1924, master weaver Lorna Blankenship receives a prestigious commission connected with Cornelia Vanderbilt’s wedding. Technical skill is not enough: the assignment demands an original design, and Lorna knows that the creativity she needs belongs to an elusive artisan she once wronged. Finding that woman requires returning to friendships broken by a betrayal seven years earlier.
The novel moves through the working world of handweaving, design and craft production in western North Carolina. Lorna’s professional identity depends on a system in which ideas, patterns and labour can be separated from the people who create them. As Edith Vanderbilt, Fred Seely and Cornelia Vanderbilt frame the real history of the enterprise, the fictional weavers confront authorship, class, female ambition and the possibility of restoring relationships without erasing harm.
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