This photograph shows an arrangement of coverlets and bed covers offered for sale by Allanstand Cottage Industries during the early 1900s. At the far left are strips of handmade fringe in various patterns that could be added to home linens and...
The pattern name of this color image is a variation of the Tennessee Blazing Star. Several distinctive qualities of this commercially woven coverlet indicate that an unidentified source or weaver produced it in the early twentieth century. Warp...
This booklet promoting Allanstand Cottage Industries was written by Frances Goodrich and published by the Women's Home Mission Board of the Presbyterian Church in 1901 or 1902. Goodrich founded Allanstand Cottage Industries while working as a...
This photograph was taken by Doris Ulmann in 1933 or 1934, the two years she spent in Brasstown, North Carolina. Mrs. Connelly, a preacher's wife from Blairsville, Georgia, was a weaver. She is shown in this photograph displaying her coverlets.
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),...
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...
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...
Coverlets -- United States; Hand weaving -- United States; Weaving -- United States;
The pattern name of this black and white image is Irish Chain. The back of this photograph is marked: "No.21, Irish Chain No.1, Somerset Co., Pa. Double woven." A double woven textile uses two complete sets of warp and weft that interlace. Double...
Coverlets -- United States; Hand weaving -- United States; Weaving -- United States;
The pattern name of this black and white image is Double Muscadine Hull. The name is likely derived for a fondness of or a real or imagined resemblance to the muscadine grape, Vitis rotundifolia, native to the southeastern United States. The back...
The pattern name of this black and white image is Pine Cone Bloom also called Pine Bloom. The back of this photograph is marked: "No.32. Pine Bloom / Burr, Madison Co., Ky." The word "Burr" was added later, written above "Bloom”. Coverlet pattern...
This is a promotional brochure produced for a 1988 traveling exhibit about the revival of coverlet weaving in Appalachia in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The exhibit was organized and sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition...
This photograph depicts regional crafts exhibited at the meeting of the Conference of Southern Mountain Workers held in Knoxville, Tenn., March 1930. The Southern Mountain Handicraft Guild held its first official meeting in conjunction with the...
This photograph depicts regional crafts exhibited at the meeting of the Conference of Southern Mountain Workers held in Knoxville, Tenn., March 1930. The Southern Mountain Handicraft Guild held its first official meeting in conjunction with the...
Bedspreads were divided into quilts, coverlets, and counterpanes. This counterpane is all cotton and seem to be all white. Frances Goodrich collected samples of regional hand weaving. This one done by an unknown weaver has a label sewn on it...
Bedspreads were divided into quilts, coverlets, and counterpanes. This counterpane is all cotton and seem to be all white. Frances Goodrich collected samples of regional hand weaving. This one done by an unknown weaver has a label sewn on it...
This eight page pamphlet explains the founding of the Fireside Industries of the Appalachian School (initially called the Appalachian Industrial School). The Fireside Industries later became known as the Penland Weavers and Potters. Of particular...
Coverlets -- Appalachian Region, Southern;Basket making -- Appalachian Region, Southern;
This photograph is included in a scrapbook that chronicles Frances Goodrich’s early years in western North Carolina. Frances Louisa Goodrich (1856-1944) was among the first to promote a revival of weaving in the North Carolina mountains,...
This photograph shows Frances Goodrich (hand on wagon) and others standing beside a mule-drawn wagon loaded with coverlets headed to market. The photograph was probably taken in the late 1890s or early 1900s near the Allanstand community in...
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...
This color image is a close-up of a weave pattern known as Betty Teague. The front of the photograph also is hand marked Betty Teague. Frances Goodrich, founder of Allanstand Cottage Industries, collected the photograph. Goodrich’s notes indicate...
