This 16-page booklet lists prices and descriptions for the items made and sold by the Penland Weavers and Potters, ca. 1940-1945. The booklet is illustrated with black and white photographs of numerous products. Products include hand woven items...
This photograph depicts a display set up in Holderness, New Hampshire featuring products available through Allanstand Cottage Industries in 1909. The display features cornhusk hats, a hand-knotted bedspread, baskets, handwoven coverlets, an animal...
Letter from the Hunter-Hibbard Company of Seattle, Washington, offering product samples. The letter mentions Kephart's published articles related to the products offered and descriptions of the products.
Letter from the Hunter-Hibbard Company of Seattle, Washington, offering product samples. The letter mentions Kephart's published articles related to the products offered and descriptions of the products.
In 1944, the Southern Highland Handicraft Guild and the Southern Highlanders, Inc. received a $6,000 grant from the General Education Board to study the field of crafts as an income-producing venture in the southern Appalachian area. Grant staff...
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...
Storytelling -- North Carolina -- Jackson County; Farm life -- North Carolina, Western; Jackson County Green Energy Park; Waste products as fuel -- North Carolina -- Jackson County; Landfill gases --North Carolina -- Jackson County; Agriculture --...
Amy opens the show telling about her daddy planting by the signs. Doreyl’s guest is Carrie Blaskowski of the Jackson County Green Energy Park in Dillsboro, who explains their creative use of land fill gases for energy. In part one of Amy’s...
Proctor, N.C., located along Hazel Creek in Swain County, N.C., was a center of logging activity for the W.M. Ritter Lumber Company from 1909 to 1926. The community had a population of about 500 in the mid-1910s. As rail connections were vital in...
This article describes Frances Goodrich's efforts to revive weaving in western North Carolina and the creation of Allanstand Cottage Industries. The article was written by Annie Creelman and published in the August 1923 issue of "Social...
This article was written by Frances Goodrich and published in the 1898 issue of the "Pratt Institute Monthly”. Goodrich describes finding utilitarian handweaving still being done in the mountains of North Carolina and describes her efforts to...
When the Allanstand Cottage Industries craft shop in Asheville, North Carolina was transferred from Frances Goodrich to the Southern Mountain Handicraft Guild in 1931, it presented Guild members with an outlet to sell their craft products. It was...
This paper gives an overview of the newly created Southern Highlanders, Inc. and places its purpose and mission in context of the history and revival or traditional craft in the southern Appalachian region. The paper was written by Clementine...
This sale brochure promotes the products of the Spinning Wheel, a weaving studio and regional craft shop in Asheville, N.C. In 1925, Clementine Douglas opened the Spinning Wheel, a weaving studio and retail shop selling a range of local crafts....
This catalog features craft items available through the Southern Highlanders, Inc. during the late 1930s and 1940s. The term "Native American" as used here refers to traditional American crafts in general rather than American Indian crafts...
This document lists the individual craft artists and production centers who sold their products through the Southern Highlanders shops in New York City and Norris, Tennessee in the early 1940s. While producers were allowed to become stockholders...
This catalog features craft items available through the Southern Highlanders, Inc. during the late 1930s. The photographs of various craft items are accompanied by a brief description of that craft. Also included are inserts identifying craft...
This catalog features craft items available through the Southern Highlanders, Inc. during the late 1930s through the 1940s. Many craft artists from western North Carolina sold products through the Southern Highlanders, Inc. during the late 1930s...
This document lists the common stockholders producing for the Southern Highlanders, Inc., in the early 1940s. Individual craft artists and production centers who sold their products through the Southern Highlanders were allowed to be stockholders...
This brochure produced around 1945 describes the various products made by Walter B. Stephen at the Pisgah Forest Pottery just south of Asheville, North Carolina. Stephen developed various product lines including work with "porcelain paste" called...
This catalog features craft items available through the Southern Highlanders, Inc. during the late 1940s. Many craft artists from western North Carolina sold products through the Southern Highlanders, Inc. during the late 1930s through the early...
