Bridget Badore

Mar 26, 2024 | smithsonianmag.com | Rachel Dickinson |Bridget Badore

How do filmmakers get period clothing to look the part? Inside the textile workshop where the past comes to life Even before you walk into the prefabricated steel building set in the woods off a country road, you’ll hear a muffled clacking sound. Once you step through the door into the workroom of Thistle Hill Weavers outside of Cherry Valley, New York, the noise from the electric-powered mechanized looms grows almost deafening.