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    • [Vegetable dye recipe card: fresh dyed flowers]

    • [Vegetable dye recipe card: fresh dyed flowers]

    • Dyes and dyeing -- Appalachian Region, Southern;

    • This recipe using fresh dyed flowers is part of a box containing 46 total vegetable dye recipes which are hand-written on index cards. Each card provides the formula used to achieve a particular color. The cards include the date, the origin of the...
    • Craft Revival
    • [Basket: rivercane]

    • [Basket: rivercane]

    • Cherokee baskets -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Basket making -- Appalachian Region, Southern;

    • This undated Indian Arts and Crafts Board photograph is of a double weave rivercane basket by Cherokee basket maker, Rowena Bradley. The basket is woven in a pattern known as Flowing Water. The photograph is labeled, "A doubleweave rivercane...
    • Craft Revival
    • [Basket: rivercane, storage]

    • [Basket: rivercane, storage]

    • Cherokee baskets -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Basket making -- Appalachian Region, Southern;

    • This undated Indian Arts and Crafts Board photograph is of a single weave rivercane basket by Cherokee basket maker, Rowena Bradley. The large basket was begun from a square base and woven outward before tapering in to a circular reinforced rim....
    • Craft Revival
    • [Basket: rivercane, purse]

    • [Basket: rivercane, purse]

    • Cherokee baskets -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Basket making -- Appalachian Region, Southern;

    • This undated Indian Arts and Crafts Board photograph is of a single weave rivercane purse basket made by Cherokee basket maker, Rowena Bradley in 1974. The basket is woven in a pattern known as Peace Pipes. The photograph is labeled, "A purse...
    • Craft Revival
    • [Basket: rivercane, storage]

    • [Basket: rivercane, storage]

    • Cherokee baskets -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Basket making -- Appalachian Region, Southern;

    • This undated Indian Arts and Crafts Board photograph is of a single weave rivercane basket made in 1973 by Cherokee basket maker, Rowena Bradley. The large basket was begun from a square base and woven outward before tapering in to a circular...
    • Craft Revival
    • [Basket: white oak, hen]

    • [Basket: white oak, hen]

    • Cherokee baskets -- Appalachian Region, Southern;Basket making -- Appalachian Region, Southern

    • This undated photograph, taken by the Indian Arts and Crafts Board, is of a white oak ribbed basket made by Julia Taylor. This type of white oak basket is traditionally called a “hen” basket; Taylor adapted the form to function as a knitting...
    • Craft Revival
    • [Basket: white oak, market]

    • [Basket: white oak, market]

    • Cherokee baskets -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Basket making -- Appalachian Region, Southern;

    • This undated market basket was made by Cherokee basket weaver Bessie Long. The flat-bottomed rectangular basket is made with white oak. Market baskets of this shape and size were traditionally used to transport agricultural products, to gather...
    • Craft Revival
    • [Basket: white oak, market]

    • [Basket: white oak, market]

    • Cherokee baskets -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Basket making -- Appalachian Region, Southern;

    • It is not known who made this undated market basket. The flat-bottomed rectangular basket is made with white oak. Large, handled baskets of this shape and size were traditionally used to transport agricultural products, to gather vegetables from...
    • Craft Revival
    • [Basket: honeysuckle, tray]

    • [Basket: honeysuckle, tray]

    • Basket making -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Cherokee baskets -- Appalachian Region, Southern;

    • It is not known who made this tray basket in the permanent collection of Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual. The tray was a common basket form among the Cherokee. Trays were traditionally used for gaming or to serve food. In this tray, the...
    • Craft Revival
    • [Basket: honeysuckle, lidded]

    • [Basket: honeysuckle, lidded]

    • Basket making -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Cherokee baskets -- Appalachian Region, Southern;

    • This undated basket was made by Cherokee basket weaver Lucy George. The basket is made from honeysuckle woven over white oak ribs. The woven lid, with wrapped handle, fits over the base. Traditionally, storage baskets were made to store domestic...
    • Craft Revival
    • [Basket: honeysuckle, storage]

    • [Basket: honeysuckle, storage]

    • Basket making -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Cherokee baskets -- Appalachian Region, Southern;

    • This undated basket was made by Cherokee basket weaver Lucy George. The basket is honeysuckle woven over white oak splints. The basket shape begins with a round base and was woven upward and outward. Traditionally, storage baskets were made to...
    • Craft Revival
    • [Basket: rivercane, storage]

    • [Basket: rivercane, storage]

    • Basket making -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Cherokee baskets -- Appalachian Region, Southern;

    • This undated Indian Arts and Crafts Board photograph is of a rivercane basket by Carol Welch. Dyed with butternut root, a plant that produces a deep brown to black, the basket pattern is called Mountain Peaks. Carol Smith Welch was the daughter...
    • Craft Revival
    • [Basket: rivercane, storage]

    • [Basket: rivercane, storage]

    • Basket making -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Cherokee baskets -- Appalachian Region, Southern;

    • This undated Indian Arts and Crafts Board photograph is of a rivercane basket by Carol Welch. Dyed with butternut root, a plant that produces a deep brown to black, the basket pattern is Mountain Peaks. Carol Smith Welch was the daughter of Helen...
    • Craft Revival
    • [Weave Pattern: Catalpa Flower variation]

    • [Weave Pattern: Catalpa Flower variation]

    • Hand weaving -- Appalachian Region, Southern;Coverlets -- Appalachian Region, Southern;

    • The use of both natural and commercially dyed yarns makes this a striking nineteenth century coverlet. Made by an unidentified weaver, the coverlet pattern is a variation of Catalpa Flower, a name likely derived from its resemblance, real or...
    • Craft Revival
    • [Weave Pattern: Double Bow Knot with Table]

    • [Weave Pattern: Double Bow Knot with Table]

    • Hand weaving -- Appalachian Region, Southern;

    • The pattern name of this nineteenth century coverlet is Double Bow Knot with Table. 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...
    • Craft Revival
    • [Woven hanging with floral centerpiece]

    • [Woven hanging with floral centerpiece]

    • Hand weaving -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Dyes and dyeing -- Appalachian Region, Southern;

    • This wall hanging was designed, dyed, and woven by Helen Wilmer Stone Viner (ca. 1891-1978) of Saluda, North Carolina around 1935-1940 and features a woven background with an inlaid floral motif. The yarns used were dyed with natural vegetable...
    • Craft Revival
    • [Basket: rivercane, storage]

    • [Basket: rivercane, storage]

    • Basket making -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Cherokee baskets -- Appalachian Region, Southern;

    • This large rivercane storage basket was made by Edmund Youngbird (1922-1995). Baskets such as these were made to store domestic goods, from dry foodstuffs to clothing. The natural aeration of the single weave allows the stored goods to remain...
    • Craft Revival
    • [Agnes Welch]

    • [Agnes Welch]

    • Cherokee baskets -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Basket making -- Appalachian Region, Southern;

    • This undated photograph of Cherokee basket weaver Agnes Welch shows her preparing white oak splits to use in weaving a basket. Agnes Lossie Welch (1925-1997) was known for making white oak baskets. Unlike most Cherokee basket weavers, she did not...
    • Craft Revival
    • [Basket: white oak, storage]

    • [Basket: white oak, storage]

    • Cherokee baskets -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Basket making -- Appalachian Region, Southern;

    • This undated storage basket was made by Cherokee basket weaver Amanda Elaine Smoker (1916-2010). The upright basket is made with white oak splits. Woven upward from a rectangular base, the basket necks in before flaring outward to a round rim. ...
    • Craft Revival
    • [Basket: honeysuckle, storage]

    • [Basket: honeysuckle, storage]

    • Basket making -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Cherokee baskets -- Appalachian Region, Southern;

    • It is not known who made this undated brightly dyed basket in the permanent collection of Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual. The large basket is honeysuckle woven over white oak splints. The basket shape begins with a round base and was woven upward...
    • Craft Revival

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