Louise Pitman, an expert on vegetable dyes, came to work at the John C. Campbell Folk School in 1928, and eventually became Director of Handicrafts. These notes were compiled and distributed by Louise Pitman, presumably for a class, most likely in...
J. Cathey, Hominy Creek, North Carolina, to Rev. L. F. Siler, February 22, 1861. Cathey notes that the last issue of Siler’s paper had published the proceedings of a meeting in Waynesville, North Carolina, and writes to indicate his belief that...
Louise Pitman served as director of the craft department at the John C. Campbell Folk School from 1928 into the 1940s. She was best known for her experiments with natural vegetable dyes; however, she was a skilled weaver as well. Her notes include...
This weaving draft and watercolor drawdown illustrate the coverlet pattern known as Germany Star. To record a pattern, a weaver creates a draft and/or a drawdown. A draft looks much like a strip of musical notation; a drawdown is a visual grid...
This page from the late 1920s brochure for the “Hotel Gordon” has a line-drawing illustration of the hotel, which was located in Waynesville, North Carolina. Automobiles are shown in the drawing parked in front of the hotel and the brochure...
These unofficial notes document the second organizational meeting for the Southern Mountain Handicraft Guild which was held at the Spinning Wheel shop in Asheville, N.C. on December 28, 1929. There were 13 women representing 8 "Producing...
In this paper written by Raymond E. Pippin in the early 1930s, Pippin puts forward a plan for a craft cooperative system which would support crafts people across the United States. He outlines the problems of "Chaos and Ruin" resulting...
