This year’s show features around 40 artists — all of them women — and is currently open during library hours through Nov. 29.

Galeotti, the Cantwell gallery coordinator, said not all the participants call themselves artists. Many are hobbyists who knit, weave or embroider to pass time during the winter or create quilts and hats to keep friends and family warm.

Some are professional seamstresses, some are professional artists making forays from other mediums into textiles, some are members of the “Knitterondackers” group that meets in the Cantwell Room every Thursday afternoon and some are locals with family traditions in fiber.

Galeotti always asks artists to bring their “family treasures.” This year’s show includes several ornate quilts that Sandy Campbell’s mother, Margaret Lavada Stephenson, handed down to her.

Cheryl Maid’s “SW Gatherings” is one of around 100 pieces of fiber art featured in the Saranac Lake Free Library’s current “Fibrary” show. (Enterprise photo — Aaron Marbone)

These are massive quilts that Galeotti estimates must have taken more than 1,000 hours of work in the year and a half it took to create.

She points at the intricacy in the design of the quilt.

“This thing sleeps in people’s drawers,” Galeotti said. “When do you see them?”

She said the family treasures are a way to honor family and keep a connection to ancestors. The quilts are functional, but beautiful. She’s excited to show them off.

The pieces in the show range from highly-functional …

Rory Keough’s framed textile collages have been popular works at the Saranac Lake Free Library’s current “Fibrary” show. (Enterprise photo — Aaron Marbone)

“I could not use this in the kitchen,” Galeotti said of striking hand towels by Laura Reid. “It’s too beautiful.”

… to highly-decorative.

Susan Granfors’ “sculptural embroidery” painstakingly plots the bays, outlets and open water of Upper Saranac Lake, Mirror Lake and Lake Placid in abstract — but recognizable — cartography.

Ren Davidson Seward used indigo dye and the Japanese “Shibori” thread technique to replicate a photo of the Dynjandi waterfall she took in Iceland on a sheet of linen.

Meredith Hanson brought a geometrically-adorned Japanese doorway curtain, which is a work in progress still. She’s creating it with children camping at the Concordia Language Villages’ Japanese Language Village in Minnesota.

Emma Galeotti admires the work of Suzanne Hokanson and Melissa Cheyne-Christensen, two of the 40-or-so fiber artists featured in the Saranac Lake Free Library’s current “Fibrary” show. (Enterprise photo — Aaron Marbone)

There were some young local artists, too.

Audrey Ringland crocheted the spirit “Kendogarurumon” and its evolution “Lobomon” from the Digimon universe and Bali Thurston tailored a ringmaster coat for a character from the horror podcast “The Magnus Archives” with her mother, Tori.

Anne Stowers is a painter, and her experience with acrylics and oils is evident in how she composes her “quilt paintings.”

Susan Hopkins, a member of the Knitterondackers, dyes her wool with mushrooms she harvests. She also makes hats.

“I really wanted a turtle hat because I’m a turtle girl,” Galeotti said.

Anne Stowers’”Gone Fishin’” quilt painting is one of around 100 pieces of fiber art featured in the Saranac Lake Free Library’s current “Fibrary” show. (Enterprise photo — Aaron Marbone)

Debbi Schmidt and Peggy LaPoint Orman make stuffed knit and felt animals, respectively.

Over the summer, at the weekly Bloomingdale Farmers Market, Jennifer Green got members of the community to all contribute to a community project weaving a rug on a loom using shredded second-hand clothes.

“I’m fond of these things, connecting people to ancient art and making them realize what you can do with recycled stuff,” Galeotti said.

Martha Jackson with Restored by Design created a lacy nightgown from all repurposed fabrics.

Michale Glennon, an ecologist by trade, visualizes her environmental data through fabric art, which Galeotti loves.

“If you want people to care for the Earth, they have to fall in love,” she said.

All around the room are fabric suns created by artists from all over, brought to the show by the Third Act environmental group to promote solar energy in New York.

The Fibrary show is free to enjoy and the library is open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday.