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Penland Alumni
The Woody family teaching caning with Penland founder Lucy Morgan behind them, 1930s. Bayard Wootten / Univ. of N.C. at Chapel Hill
History of Penland
See 75 years of excellence in craft education. Penland was founded in the 1920s by a young woman wanting to preserve the craft of weaving. But Lucy Morgan could not have imagined that people would come from all over the world to learn the art of craft at her little school in the mountains of North Carolina.  
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