This photographic postcard depicts the use of handwoven textiles in the weave pattern Sun, Moon, and Stars to decorate President Woodrow Wilson's White House bedroom around 1913. The room came to be known as the Blue Mountain Room. First Lady Ellen...
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 brochure was developed in 1917 to help sell stock in the Allanstand Cottage Industries which was officially incorporated in 1916. The brochure explains that "the reason for changing the Industries from a private enterprise to a stock company...
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...
The pattern name of this black and white image is Doors and Windows. The back of this photograph is marked: "No.13, Windows and Doors, Franklin Co. Va." Coverlet pattern names were never standardized thus a variation in pattern name is quite common...
The pattern name of this black and white image is Sea Star. The back of this photograph is marked: "No.15, Sea Star, McDowell Co., N.C. Seven Star N.C." Frances Goodrich, founder of Allanstand Cottage Industries, collected the photograph. In “The...
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...
Dorland Bell Looms was the original name for the workshop that joined with Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, N.C. to teach weaving to new students. This production center was known as the Weave Shop, but eventually became Warren Wilson Crafts...
This article appeared in an unspecified newspaper on August 24, 1913 and describes the work of Elmeda Walker (incorrectly identified as Martha) and her sister Martha McHargue (identified here as Caroline) creating handwoven items which will be used...
Dyes and dyeing -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Hand weaving -- Appalachian Region, Southern;
This handwoven throw was made by Helen Wilmer Stone Viner (ca. 1891-1978) of Saluda, North Carolina around 1930 and features natural dyed yarns. Helen Wilmer Stone was born in New Orleans, La., and came to North Carolina by way of Pine Mountain...
This wall hanging was handwoven by an unidentified weaver for Penland Weavers and Potters, of Penland, North Carolina, during the late 1930s. It is a reversible (summer & winter) pattern in a jacquard weave using the patterns Pine Tree and...
This grass placemat was handwoven by an unidentified weaver for Penland Weavers and Potters, Penland, N.C., around 1940. The mat is made of broom sedge woven with cotton thread.
This handwoven blanket of cotton and wool is a natural color and consists of two 30" wide strips sewn together. The blanket does have several large holes and tears with some mended. This blanket is attributed to the family of William Allen Dills...
This handwoven blanket made of linen and wool is butter color with two panels and a seam down the middle of the blanket. Although the maker of this blanket is unknown, it was probably made in the mid to late 1800s and is typical of the...
This signed photograph of Frances Goodrich was taken by Doris Ulmann in 1934.
Goodrich came to rural North Carolina in 1892 as a social worker for the Presbyterian Church. She was inspired to found Allanstand Cottage Industries in 1896, as a...
Dyes and dyeing -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Hand weaving -- Appalachian Region, Southern;
This handwoven throw was made by Helen Wilmer Stone Viner (ca. 1891-1978) of Saluda, North Carolina during the 1930s and features natural dyed yarns. The entire piece is trmimed with a brown fringe. Helen Wilmer Stone was born in New Orleans,...
