About the Hudson Valley Textile Project

The mission of the Hudson Valley Textile Project is to strengthen the natural fiber industry by promoting collaboration, addressing
supply chain gaps, supporting education, and providing marketing opportunities.

Our vision

The Hudson Valley Textile Project boosts the farm to market economy through:

Promotion of collaboration among fiber farmers, processors, dyers, manufacturers, designers, and artisans;
Development of fiber processing and manufacturing services, educational tools, and marketing opportunities.

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How the Hudson Valley Textile Project started

A one-time upstate New York farm girl, now shopkeeper, loved a NY-sourced and milled yarn that was discontinued by its distributor. She called the former engineer, turned mill owner, who had produced the yarn for the distributor, and got her to make more of the yarn just for her shop – and that was the beginning of this unique partnership.

With the new yarn in hand, we started thinking about our entire region and wondering what other partnerships for sustainable sourcing and processing might be possible. Could we go further than hand-knitting yarn? Could we expand our partnership to some of our other fiber friends in the Hudson Valley?

So to start, we reached out to teacher and researcher Laura Sansone at NY Textile Lab, sheep farmer and shop owner Paula Kucera from White Barn Farm, and designer and maker Kathy Fogarty of Midnight Mercantile. They agreed with us that a sustainably sourced and processed farm-to-fabric supply chain was essential. And the Hudson Valley Textile Project was born!

Together, we decided to take action and develop a regional network of like-minded people in the Hudson River Watershed. The Hudson Valley Textile Project is a community of farmers, dyers, millers, designers, makers, distributors, and retailers who have come together to share their knowledge and resources.

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Gail Parrinello (Cornwall Yarn Shop) &
Mary Jeanne Packer (Battenkill Fibers Carding and Spinning Mill)

P.S. The sweaters we are wearing in this photo are knit from that first yarn we made together!

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Learn More about the Hudson Valley Textile Project by reading our 2025 End of the Year Report.
Email hvtextileproject@gmail.com to request a copy.

HVTP Board of Directors

Gail Parrinello

Cornwall Yarn Shop, Ltd.
Term ends 2026
Lilly Marsh, PhD

Lilly Marsh Studios LLC - Production Weaver
Term ends 2026
Mary Jeanne Packer

Founder Battenkill Fibers Carding & Spinning Mill
Term ends 2026
Jeffrey Silberman

Professor (Ret.) and Past Chairperson Textile Development and Marketing FIT
Term ends 2027
Kathy Fogarty

Former Clothing Designer and Owner of Midnight Mercantile, LLC
Term ends 2028
Elaine Gerber

Woodland Meadow Farm, LLC - Alpaca
Term ends 2027
Mimi Prober

Fashion Designer- Sustainable & Local
Term ends 2027
Cecelia Tkaczyk

Cece’s Wool & Yarns, Former NYS Senator
Term ends 2028
Rachel Carrigan

Fiber on Main, Fiber Arts Coordinator, The Center for Discovery
Term ends 2028