Welcome To Art By Carola

Art by Carola is the online home for everything I create, teach, and imagine. Born in Mercy Hospital and now working right inside its historic walls, my journey has come full circle. This space gathers my entire art portfolio and the three branches of my creative life: Stitching Culture my first book; Fiber Art by Carola brand and online store; and Carola Jones, Teaching Artist small business consulting services. Together, these pages form a single creative ecosystem, rooted in heritage, shaped by craft, and guided by story. Welcome. Wander. Explore. And stitch yourself into the journey.

Stitching Culture

My YouTube channel, book-in-progress and storytelling project, written in the very building where my life began. It traces my creative journey from Daniel Hill to Mercy Hospital, weaving Tuscarora, Seminole and Gullah Geechee family textile traditions into a narrative of healing and transformation.

Fiber Art by Carola

My brand and online shop featuring one-of-a-kind medicine cloth wearables, indigo-dyed textiles, quilts, and home goods. Each piece is made with ancestral intention, land-based practice, and contemporary design inspired by my participation in Indigenous Fashion Arts.

Teaching Artist

Carola Jones, Teaching Artist is my consulting services for small businesses and creatives. With more than 25 years of experience in web design, graphic design, and digital media, I help entrepreneurs build websites, landing pages, and visual identities that truly reflect their brand.

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Gratitude: The quality of being thankful. I’m grateful for every sunrise and sunset. Only a few years ago, I was flat on my back and unable to turn over on my own. Divine Mercy saved me through the prayers and kindness of others. To God Be The Glory!

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Stitching Culture Web Portal

Stitching Culture is a soulful, creative journey where fashion, memory, and ancestral traditions meet in the building where I was born, the historical Mercy Hospital on East Green Street in Wilson, NC. Stitching Culture is a book about my creative journey of discovery and transformation, and a YouTube Channel sharing my creative process. My story honors the slow process of textile making practiced on Daniel Hill and in East Wilson. It is rooted in the rhythms of the black sandy soil on what was once Contentnea Creek Homeland. It celebrates the creative hands of Doris Jones, Minnie Haskins, Harriett Woodard, Mammy, Fawn (Ann), Mattie Randolph, Mary Burnette, and Grand Mere for the knowledge they transferred to me about regenerative fibers, plant dyes, and sustainable Indigenous textile practices.

Stitching Culture is the heart of the my small business, with a physical location inside the historic Mercy Hospital building where I was born. It’s a storytelling platform, book, and YouTube channel that documents and teaches the living traditions of Indigenous Tuscarora, Seminole, and Gullah Geechee fiber arts. Through video episodes, digital courses, and print publications, Stitching Culture explores how fabric becomes a vessel for memory, healing, and cultural continuity.

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Fiber Art By Carola BRAND

Through my studio and brand, Fiber Art by Carola, I create medicine cloth, one-of-a-kind, hand-dyed, hand-stitched wearables and home goods that honor land, memory, and transformation. Each piece is both art and story, a living tribute to the women and ancestors who stitched before me. My creative practice weaves together storytelling, natural dyeing, quilting, beadwork, and hand embroidery, rooted in Indigenous (Tuscarora and Seminole) Eastern Woodlands and Geechee Gullah traditions. | Visit Google My Business for Updates

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Divine Mercy In Action

Studio 104 manifests Divine Mercy and being still while you wait on God. It is my first creative space outside my home. It comes as I surrender all to Jesus. I lost my ability to sew in my Momma’s house. It was only after machine stitching was blocked from me that I became aware of its importance to my mental health. Sewing is my therapy, just me, sitting at my sewing machine and stitching. I experience God’s peace when I’m sewing. I pray that I will never take my need for a creative maker space for granted. It’s a cherished Divine Mercy blessing!

Inside Mercy Hospital & Stitching Culture Studio

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My Creative Process

The first part of my creative process is creating “medicine cloth.” I hand-dye intentional yardage for Pow Wow and Indigenous Fashion shawls, blankets, and quilts, following traditional Southeastern Algonquin zero-waste design concepts. I dye, paint, and eco-print with plants, flowers, nuts, earth pigments, and contemporary textile paints. What makes the cloth “medicine” is following Carolina Low Country Geechee Gullah ceremonial practices associated with named resist design patterns. The final step in my creative process is to stitch memory into the cloth. I aim to reimagine the ancestral mark-making shared with me as markings drawn with a stick on the ground by Howell Woodard. Stitching Culture in the place where I was born is a circle of making, remembering, and creating, where every stitch connects my hands to ancestral creative hands on Daniel Hill, in East Wilson and in the Carolina Low Country, who found contentment in sewing, and an outlet to deal with the pain of living “The Blues.”

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Indigenous Geechee Inspired Stitching Techniques

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Southeastern Woodlands Algonquin Wool Blankets