A yo-yo quilt is a way to use scrap fabric. This 6-foot by 8-foot quilt was made with 6,360 one-inch fabric 'yo-yos'

CANTON – TAUNY, 53 Main St., will offer two exhibitions focused on traditional textile arts, past to present in 2016.

The first, "Material Remains: One Woman's Life Through the Eye of Her Needle, opens Saturday, Feb. 13, featuring the domestic needlework of Louise Barrows Lowe, a Colorado woman whose life straddled the 19th and 20th centuries.

Curated by historian Hallie Bond, the exhibition presents a collection of heirlooms made by Lowe, ranging from dolls to dresses to quilts. These objects, which have been treasured and conserved by Lowe's family, provide a path to understanding the daily life of a woman who lived through a time of great social change in the United States.

For 30 years Bond has been studying the lives of women in Northern New York, especially the Adirondacks, drawing on diaries as well as objects in family and museum collections. Bond compares women's lives in Northern New York to those of women whose families made the decision to head to the frontier. Woven in with the narrative of Lowe's life are accounts of what would have been occurring in the lives of Lowe's contemporaries in Northern New York.

The second exhibit devoted to textiles will open April 2. "Warmth, Remembrance, and Art: 200 Years of Quilts and Comforters in New York's North Country" will present a selection of quilts documented by the Northern New York Quilt Project, and introduce viewers to some of our region's quilters.