In this one minute video, Susan Leveille, a local weaver and textile researcher discusses loom reeds, their construction and their repair. The reed is part of the loom that goes in the beater and helps keep the warp threads separated. The loom she...
This barn loom was collected by Frances Goodrich. The loom is representative of the traditional four-harness looms used by weavers during the Craft Revivial period (1890 -1940) in the southern Appalachian mountains. Frances Louisa Goodrich...
In this short video, local western North Carolina weaver and textile historian Susan Leveille discusses the tool known as a rattle. Rattles were used during warping a loom. She is standing in front of a loom which originally was used on the porch...
This 1800s-era tape loom is a smaller version of the coverlet loom and was used to make tape or belts, which were used in harnesses and saddles, among other things. The metal reed which leans against the end of the loom is 3 inches wide and...
This signed photograph of a warped loom was taken by Doris Ulmann in the early 1930s. It shows the warp going up from the back beam to the heddles of the loom. Although this particular loom was located in Berea, Ky., it is typical of the types of...
In this half-minute video, Susan Leveille, a local weaver and textile researcher discusses the condition of a loom which originally was used on the porch of the Hall family farm in Macon County, North Carolina. The farm, located on the banks of the...
In this half-minute video, Susan Leveille, a local western North Carolina weaver and textile researcher discusses looms being disassembled and moved historically and some of the ramifications of that process. The loom she is standing in front of...
A loom shuttle carries the weft fiber for a weaver. The warp is strung on to a loom from the back to where the weaver sits in front. A weaver needs at least one shuttle, and may use several, for different colors or for different threads. Most...
A loom stretcher, also called a temple or tenter hooks, was used to keep an even tension on the selvages. Sharp ends would fasten into the weaving on either side of the loom as the stretcher was opened to its full width. The creator of this...
This reed is in a frame which would be the beater bar on a loom. The reed keeps the warp evenly spaced. This determines the thread count or ends per inch (EPI) of a piece of woven cloth. It is moved toward the weaver to pack the weft thread into...
A loom shuttle such as this carries the weft fiber for a weaver. The warp is strung on to a loom from the back to where the weaver sits in front. A weaver needs at least one shuttle, and may use several, for different colors or for different...
Postcard displaying handmade loom with men weaving cloth. Back of card reads, "Handmade loom at Biltmore Industries, Inc., Asheville, N.C., where beautiful Biltmore Handwoven Homespuns have been created for over half a century."
This unsigned photograph of a young girl sitting at a loom with a shuttle in her hand was taken by Doris Ulmann at an unidentified location in Appalachia in the early 1930s.
This unsigned photograph of a women sitting at the loom was taken by Doris Ulmann probably in the early 1930s. The woman appears to hold a finished woven piece in her lap and a shuttle in her hand. Although the woman and location are...
This unsigned photograph of a young girl sitting at a loom with a shuttle in her hand was taken by Doris Ulmann at an unidentified location in Appalachia in the early 1930s. A second shuttle lies on the warp.
This hand-tinted photographic postcard depicts two women on the porch of a mountain cabin with their spinning and weaving tools. At right a woman stands with at a great wheel, used for spinning wool. In the center foreground is a wrapping reel...
This is a postcard of a Cherokee woman, identified as Cora Wahnetah, posing with a bead loom and display of pottery. A member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Cora Arch Wahnetah (1907-1986) was also known Cora Wahyahneetah. The description...
This is a transcript of an interview of weaver Virginia Dare Strother conducted by Edward Dupuy and Clifford Hotchkiss in 1965. Strother grew up in Sugar Grove, N.C. and was descended from a long line of weavers. In the interview she talks about...
This photograph depicts regional crafts exhibited at the meeting of the Conference of Southern Mountain Workers held in Knoxville, Tenn., in 1931. The Southern Mountain Handicraft Guild (later the Southern Highland Handicraft Guild) met in...
This photograph, taken by Doris Ulmann in 1933 or 1934, shows Virginia Howard, an early student of the John C. Campbell Folk School, weaving at a loom in the Keith House.
