Basket making -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Coverlets -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Dyes and dyeing -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Hand weaving -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Weaving -- Appalachian Region, Southern;
This article appeared in the "Watertown Daily Times" (presumably Watertown, N.Y.) on February 8, 1917. It reports on a talk given by Frances Goodrich at the home of Mrs. C. Willard Gamble. The article reports on Goodrich's work with the...
This article was written by Helen R. Albee and published in the "American Monthly Review of Reviews," around 1898. In this article, Albee encourages philanthropists to look at the funding of the arts and crafts as a way of helping people in rural...
This draft history of the Allanstand Cottage Industries tells the story of how Frances Goodrich founded the craft cooperative. The story begins with Goodrich's work as an educational missionary in the Brittain's Cove community in Buncombe County...
These eight pages were written by Frances Goodrich to tell the story of Allanstand Cottage Industries, Inc. She begins with her longing to help mountain women, the gift of the double bow knot coverlet, her first experiences with a loom. She...
In this March 2, 1931 letter, Frances Goodrich is writing to John C. Campbell Folk School director, Olive D. Campbell, regarding Goodrich's offer of Allanstand Cottage Industries, Inc. to the recently formed Southern Mountain Handicraft Guild...
The pattern name of this black and white image is Lily of the Valley. The back of this photograph is marked: "No.4, Lily of the Valley, Burke Co., N.C." The source of the name Lily of the Valley is unknown. Frances Goodrich, founder of Allanstand...
This brochure promotes the art pottery of Oscar Louis Bachelder (1852-1935). He came to the mountains from the mid-west and created pottery that went beyond functionality. The brochure includes some of Omar Khayyam's poetry, which inspired the...
Anthony Lord was a college trained architect and metalworker. He taught blacksmith Lawrence Boone in Asheville, N.C. At the time of the survey, Lord was producing forge work only in his spare time or as it related to his architectural work. ...
Elizabeth Lord was college educated and taught weaving at Western Carolina Teacher's College (now Appalachian State University). At the time of this survey, Lord was director of Watauga Industries, a production weaving center. Questionnaires like...
Furniture -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Toy making -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Wood-carving -- Appalachian Region, Southern;
Charlotte Yale worked with Eleanor Vance in Tryon, North Carolina where the two founded Tryon Toy-Makers and Wood-Carvers in 1915. They had previously worked together managing Biltmore Estate Industries which they founded with Edith Vanderbilt in...
This photograph of Clara Maude Cobb Hilton (1885-1969) was taken by Doris Ulmann around 1933 or 1934. Hilton pottery was a family pottery which made functional pottery starting just after the Civil War. The pottery, originally located in Catawba...
This sound recording is an excerpt from an interview with Jean Ritchie talking about how she first met Georg Bidstrup and Marguerite Butler Bidstrup at Little Mama's cafe after a dance in Berea, Kentucky. Marguerite Butler helped to found the John...
These documents pertain to the life and work of Lucy Morgan, weaver, instructor, and founder of the Penland School of Handicrafts (now Penland School of Crafts). Included is the transcript of an interview conducted by Edward Dupuy and Clifford...
This small leaflet served as a business card for blacksmith or iron worker Anthony Lord and was probably produced during the 1930s. The front is illustrated with an example of his iron work and the back shows his logo. A brief note inside explains...
This 1984 newsletter of the John C. Campbell Folk School features a story on the life of Jack Hall, a "legend at the Folk School." Carving at the young age of 11, Hall was one of the original carvers who produced and sold carvings by the school's...
These dolls were carved out of white pine wood by renowned Cherokee carver Goingback Chiltoskey (1907-2000), also known as Going Back Chiltoskie and G. B. Chiltosky. The female doll has a papoose on her back. The male doll wears leather leg...
Cherokee basket makers demonstrated their craft at the Craftsman's Fairs of the Southern Highlands, here they are depicted at the 1952 fair in Asheville, North Carolina. On the left, Lucy George demonstrates weaving with honeysuckle vine. In the...
Qualla Arts & Crafts Mutual of Cherokee, North Carolina, had a popular booth at the Craftsman's Fairs of the Southern Highlands. In this photograph from the 1953 fair in Asheville, North Carolina, four women are admiring a double-weave basket, as...
Lucy Nola George (1897-1978) was a basket maker from the Qualla Boundary in Cherokee, North Carolina. She often demonstrated her craft at the Craftsman's Fair of the Southern Highlands. This photograph, taken by Edward L. Dupuy, is from the 1953...
Lottie Queen Stamper (1907-1987) was a Cherokee basket maker who made double weave baskets. In this photograph, taken by Clem Kalischer, Stamper demonstrates her art at the 1948 Craftsman's Fair of the Southern Highlands in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.
