Can offer what my ex did along these lines.
Started out simple enough in the late 60's with her taking an interest in weaving. Probably because we already collected Navajo rugs and all other Native American artifacts. Mostly she made rugs and throws but she made wall hangings, other items and cloth yardage for clothes as well. Wasn't long until I had made her two very large "PC" looms and all the wooden and antler tools for them. She even went to Sedona, AZ for a month and took history and technique classes from the Navajo's through the Pendelton Shop so her work would be done as it was originally. She dyed, carded and spun her own materials too from some plenty expensive supplies she had imported in. The latter is mostly what she did at rondezvous rather than haul the big looms to the hills.
When she tired of that in the late 70's she got deep into quilt making, and I mean deep! She researched the textile history to the point that even I could date old cottons to pick up for her at antique shops, etc on my business trips all over the west. Lead to a giant collection of antique quilts, and our eventually opening a store for her where she sold all the materials/tools for quilting and gave/hosted quilting classes taught by the best known quilters from all over the country. She even designed, produced and sold her own line of quilt patterns. She stocked around 850 different bolts of cotton and so had more choice to offer quilters than any other source in the west. At rendezvous she'd hand piece quilts and quilt them for the trade blanket.
Her interest in that faded by the mid-late 80's, and to my utter surprize she took a fur handling and tanning class at the university extension, and started doing all my hides for me. We didn't rendezvous anymore by then, but I have always made leather projects so had a use for the tanned leather. I still have some of the hair-on pelts she tanned for me from my predator and varmint hunting.
These are all big projects though, and maybe more than the average newcomer would want to tackle at rendezvous.
