This photograph shows an arrangement of woven and hooked items offered for sale by Allanstand Cottage Industries during the early 1900s. The salesroom opened in Asheville in 1908. A note on the back of the photograph reads: "Woven textiles, hooked...
This photograph shows an arrangement of items offered for sale by Allanstand Cottage Industries during the 1920s and early 1930s. Depicted are cornhusk dolls made by Margaret Revis of Buncombe County, along with several pine needle baskets and...
This photograph depicts a display set up in Holderness, New Hampshire featuring products available through Allanstand Cottage Industries in 1909. The display features cornhusk hats, a hand-knotted bedspread, baskets, handwoven coverlets, an animal...
This is a page out of an unknown book, with an inscription by Allen Eaton. The inscription reads, "A souvenir of a good time had by yours respectfully and affectionately, 1932 Allen Eaton, in the month of June." The caption of the illustration...
Allen Eaton is pictured here with Kate Clayton Donaldson (ca. 1864-1960), more commonly known as Granny Donaldson, who is displaying one of her "cow blankets." She is seated in a rocking chair in the shade. A basket which appears to hold skeins...
This photograph depicts a bedspread with a knotted fringe, believed to have been sold through Allanstand Cottage Industries during the 1910s. The back of the photograph is labeled "Knotted Spread 'Flower Basket' design" and the number 2504 is...
This photograph depicts a bedspread believed to have been sold through Allanstand Cottage Industries during the 1910s. The pattern, identified as Blue Bell in another photograph, appears to be executed with needlework knots, although it may have...
This photograph depicts a bedspread believed to have been sold through Allanstand Cottage Industries during the 1910s. The pattern appears to be executed with needlework knots, although it may have been tufted. The maker of this bedspread is...
This photograph depicts a fringed bedspread believed to have been sold through Allanstand Cottage Industries during the 1910s. The pattern, identified as Bow Knot and Thistle, appears to be executed with needlework knots, although it may have been...
This photograph depicts a fringed bedspread believed to have been sold through Allanstand Cottage Industries during the 1910s. The pattern, identified as Grape Vine, appears to use both tufting (for grapes) and needlework knots (for vines). The...
This photograph provides a closer look at the design of a tufted bedspread, believed to have been sold through Allanstand Cottage Industries during the 1910s. The maker of this bedspread is unknown. Tufting was a domestic handcraft that was revived...
This photograph depicts a tufted bedspread, believed to have been sold through Allanstand Cottage Industries during the 1910s. The back of the photograph is stamped "Miss W. C. Wilkie, West Asheville, N.C." along with a note in Frances Goodrich's...
This photograph depicts a tufted bedspread, believed to have been sold through Allanstand Cottage Industries during the 1910s. The back of the photograph is labeled "Tufted spread - called 'turfed' - H. C. Wilkie, West Asheville, N.C. - Please...
This photograph depicts a tufted bedspread, believed to have been sold through Allanstand Cottage Industries during the 1910s. The back of the photograph is stamped "Miss W. C. Wilkie, West Asheville, N.C." along with a note in Frances Goodrich's...
This photograph depicts a tufted bedspread, believed to have been sold through Allanstand Cottage Industries during the 1910s. The back of the photograph is labeled "Knotted spread 'Wild rose vine'" and the number 2505 is assumed to be a product...
These cornhusk slippers, made by Frances Nicholson of Jackson County, N.C. in the 1930s, are lined with rust-colored fabric and tied with yellow ribbon.
This photograph shows a section of a woven counterpane coverlet with fringe in the Honey Comb pattern most likely sold by Allanstand Cottage Industries in the early 1900s. Notes on the verso of this photograph read "see picture - Honey Comb...
This photograph shows a section of a woven counterpane coverlet with fringe in the Honey Comb pattern sold by Allanstand Cottage Industries in the early 1900s. The weaver is unidentified, but is most likely from Buncombe or Madison County.
This unidentified coverlet has been carefully hung for photographing, one can even note the seam running horizontally down the center. This photograph is in Frances L. Goodrich's collection of images from the western North Carolina region. A...
This cow blanket, was made by Kate Clayton Donaldson (ca. 1864-1960), more commonly known as "Granny" Donaldson, of Marble, North Carolina. The blanket consist of a backing or ground made of a solid homespun fabric to which hand crocheted animals,...
