These documents pertain to the life and work of craft administrator and natural dyer, Louise Pitman. Included is a 1957 questionnaire for the Southern Highland Handicraft Guild; a transcript of an interview done with Edward DuPuy and Clifford...
Hayden Hensley and wife, Bonnie Logan Hensley, early students and carvers at the John C. Campbell Folk School, were able to purchase this house solely from the funds they earned from woodcarving. Many carvers were farmers who carved as a means of...
This photograph taken by Bayard Wootten in the 1920s shows the community weavers outside of the Weaving Cabin adjacent to the campus of the the Appalachian School near Penland, North Carolina. From 1923 to 1938 the Appalachian School served as the...
This double-sided brochure provides brief introductions to the Southern Highland Handicraft Guild and the Southern Highlanders, Inc. Mapped and listed are 29 "production centers" which were schools, cooperatives, and craft shops that paid workers...
