This postcard depicts two women spinning flax in front of the fireplace in the newly constructed Edward F. Worst Craft House adjacent to the campus of the Appalachian School in Penland, North Carolina, ca. 1935-1936. The older woman seated to the...
This illustration captioned 'Mt. Pisgah from Battery Park' is from Harriet Adams Sawyer book 'Souvenir of Asheville or the Skyland' (St. Louis: Nixon-Jones Printing Co., 1892).
This article on how to reseat chairs was written by Harriet Cushman Wilkie and published in the March 1917 issue of "The Modern Priscilla." The article details how to weave chair seats using natural materials such as cattail leaves, cornhusks,...
This article appeared in The Modern Priscilla magazine, October, 1919. It was written by Harriet C. Wilkie, who was manager of the Allanstand Cottage Industries shop. She writes of her fascination with the natural dyes used to color wool and...
This illustrated catalog describes the classes offered at Penland School of Handicrafts, now Penland School of Crafts, during the summer of 1941. Course offerings included weaving, pottery, jewelry making, shoe making, basketry, chair caning,...
This April 1931 letter from Frances Goodrich to Southern Mountain Handicraft Guild secretary, Helen Dingman, is a response to Dingman's missives about the Guild accepting Goodrich's offer to take over the Allanstand Cottage Industries business. ...
This illustrated catalog describes the classes offered at Penland School of Handicrafts, now Penland School of Crafts, during the summer of 1942. Course offerings included weaving, tapestry, metal craft, jewelry making, woodwork, pottery, shoe...
This article on corn shuck or cornhusk crafts was written by Harriet Cushman Wilkie in the early 1920s. She tells briefly about using corn shucks to make a hat, decorate a lampshade, and fashion a doll. Wilkie served as the manager of the...
This illustrated catalog describes the classes offered at Penland School of Handicrafts, now Penland School of Crafts, during the summer of 1940. Course offerings included weaving, pottery, jewelry making, shoe making, basketry, chair caning,...
The pattern name of this color image is a variation of Sea Star. The back of this photograph is marked: "Seven stars. Wrong side out." Coverlet pattern names were never standardized thus a variation in pattern name is quite common from state to...
