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...
Adult education -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Arts and crafts movement -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Craft shops -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Handicraft industries -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Handicraft -- Appalachian Region,...
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...
Appalachians (People); Arts and crafts movement -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Missions -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Handicraft -- Social aspects;
This photograph was taken by an unknown photographer at the 1915 White Rock Fair. It features a display of several textiles including woven coverlets, two quilts, and a hooked rug hanging on the right-hand wall. The coverlet hanging between the two...
This photograph shows Elmeda Walker working at her loom outside of a mountain cabin in the late 1890s or early 1900s. The coverlet design is visible as it moves on to the weaver's lap. This photograph was used in promotional materials for...
Artisans -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Arts and crafts movement -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Exhibitions -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Handicraft -- Appalachian Region, Southern;
Carrie Hodges (Mrs. C. G. Hodges) and her daughter, Bertha Hodges Cook demonstrated needlework skills passed down in their family. Here Carrie Hodges is using a shuttle to make decorative fringe, while Bertha Cook is doing colonial knotting or...
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 signed photograph of a woman with a coverlet in her lap was taken by Doris Ulmann around 1933 or 1934. She is seated in front of a quilt. Identifying text on the back of the photograph has been obliterated except for the title and fragments...
This article was written by Frances Goodrich and published in the 1898 issue of the "Pratt Institute Monthly”. Goodrich describes finding utilitarian handweaving still being done in the mountains of North Carolina and describes her efforts to...
This signed photograph of Martha Nicholson was taken by Doris Ulmann around 1933 or 1934. A penciled note on the the back of the photograph identifies Nicholson as a weaver and spinner from Culberson (?), N.C. Nicholson is seated in front of a...
Arts and crafts movement -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Craft shops -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Handicraft -- Appalachian Region, Southern;
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...
Arts and crafts movement -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Craft shops -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Handicraft -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Handicraft industries -- Appalachian Region, Southern;
This tri-fold brochure was used to promote the Southern Highland Handicraft Guild's Allanstand Cottage Industries shop in Asheville, North Carolina. Contents include "The Story of the Allanstand Cottage Industries by Frances L. Goodrich," a brief...
Arts and crafts movement -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Craft shops -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Handicraft -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Handicraft industries -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Handloom industry -- Appalachian Region,...
This black and white image features the weave pattern Double Bow Knot. The Double Bow Knot pattern derives its name from the half bows that join in the middle forming a square-shaped knot. Bow knot patterns can be created in a multitude of sizes....
Arts and crafts movement -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Exhibitions -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Handicraft -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Handicraft industries -- Appalachian Region, Southern;
This photograph features Frances Louisa Goodrich (1856-1944) standing in front of two coverlets. The coverlet on the left is woven in a Double Bow Knot pattern, the one on the right is the Pine Cone Bloom pattern. This 1943 photograph, made the...
Arts and crafts movement -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Exhibitions -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Handicraft -- Social aspects; Missions -- Appalachian Region, Southern;
This photograph was taken by an unknown photographer at the 1909 White Rock Fair and features a display of handmade craft items. On display at left and right is a fringed coverlet or rug made in a variation of a weave pattern known as Cat Tracks...
Arts and crafts movement -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Handicraft -- Appalachian Region, Southern;
A simple Patch pattern is the design name of this black and white image. The back of this photograph is marked: ""No.5, Doors and Windows, Floyd Co., Ga." In "The Book of Handwoven Coverlets", published in 1912 by Eliza Calvert Hall (1856-1935),...
Arts and crafts movement -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Handicraft -- Appalachian Region, Southern;
The pattern name of this black and white image is Pine Cone Bloom, also called Pine Bloom and Pine Burr. The back of this photograph is marked: "No.11, Isle of Patmos, Union Co. Tenn. Pineburr-". Coverlet pattern names were never standardized thus...
Arts and crafts movement -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Handicraft -- Appalachian Region, Southern;
This color image is a close-up of a weave pattern known as Catalpa Flower, a name likely derived from its resemblance, real or imagined, to the flower of the Catalpa, or Catawba, tree that is native to the southern region of the United States. See...
Arts and crafts movement -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Handicraft -- Appalachian Region, Southern;
The pattern name of this black and white image is Snowballs. The back of this photograph is marked: "6. Kentucky Snowballs, Knott Co., Ky." Coverlet pattern names were never standardized thus a variation in pattern name is quite common from state...
Arts and crafts movement -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Handicraft -- Appalachian Region, Southern;
The pattern name of this black and white image is a variation of Tennessee Trouble. The back of this photograph is marked: "No.8. Spectacles, Madison Co., Ky. 'Missouri Trouble' in Kentucky but as that name goes with half a dozen different patterns...
