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....
William Waldo Dodge, Jr. published this sales brochure featuring the range of silver work that could be purchased from his shop. The Dodge Silver Shop was founded in 1924 in Asheville, N.C.; in 1928 it moved to Biltmore Forest where Dodge was...
William Waldo Dodge, Jr. published this sales brochure featuring the range of silver work that could be purchased from his shop. The Dodge Silver Shop was founded in 1924 in Asheville, N.C.; in 1928 it moved to Biltmore Forest where Dodge was...
This sales brochure features furniture and woodcarving done by The Artisans' Shop located in Biltmore, North Carolina. The business was owned by Robert Valier and the brochure was probably produced in the 1930s. The shop was a member of the...
The original Spinning Wheel shop was operated by Clementine Douglas from 1925 until it relocated in 1940. The log cabin was moved from the mountains to a location in the Beaver Lake area of north Asheville, North Carolina. This brochure is printed...
This photograph has been hand-colored in order to show how the finished quilt might look. The black and white photographs which Frances Goodrich kept at Allanstand for quilt orders gave a basic idea of the designs available. Shoppers could choose...
This promotional postcard was produced by the Southern Highland Handicraft Guild's Allanstand craft shop and features a family of cornhusk dolls made by Margaret C. Revis. These dolls were sold by the Allanstand shop dating back to the 1920s. ...
This draft history of the Allanstand Cottage Industries craft shop in Madison County, North Carolina was written by shop founded Frances Goodrich in the late 1910s or 1920s. Goodrich wrote numerous articles and promotional brochures about the...
This cornhusk doll, named "Cornelius Husk," was designed and made by Margaret Revis and sold through Allanstand Cottage Industries starting in the 1920s. With Revis' permission, the Alanstand shop patented the doll's design in April 1930 and...
The Spinning Wheel was a weaving and craft shop operated by Clementine Douglas in Asheville, N.C. It first opened in 1925. At the time of the survey, the shop was located in a log cabin in South Asheville, which is still in use today. Douglas...
Maple Springs Wood Working Shop was founded in 1935 by Paul Warren. At the time of the questionnaire in 1944, they were not making furniture, because of the lack of workers due to the war. The shop had produced "Baskets - chairs - screens [and]...
William Dodge was trained as an architect before he went to Europe for World War I. After the war he came to the Oteen Veterans Administration Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina for treatment. There he was taught metalwork as part of his...
This early brochure was published by the Stuart Nye silver shop to illustrate the designs being offered. It also tells "The Legend of the Dogwood Tree." The dogwood flower has always been a popular Stuart Nye pattern. Stuart Nye first visited...
This letter was written by Allen Eaton to Clementine Douglas on July 24, 1934. It was written on Russell Sage Foundation letterhead, where Eaton was working and through which organization he was introduced to the Craft Revival in the southern...
The original Spinning Wheel shop was operated by Clementine Douglas from 1925 until it relocated in 1940. The log cabin was moved from the mountains to a location in the Beaver Lake area of north Asheville, North Carolina. The cover of this...
The original Spinning Wheel shop was operated by Clementine Douglas from 1925 until it relocated in 1940. The log cabin was moved from the mountains to a location in the Beaver Lake area of north Asheville, North Carolina. The cover of this...
This undated photograph by an unknown photographer shows the exterior of the wood working shop at Cherokee High School. While many Cherokee carvers got their start carving at home under the guidance of an older family member, many then refined...
W.M. Cline, Co. was established in 1938 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The company was founded by Walter Matson Cline, Jr. (1914-1984) who had learned photographer from his father, Walter M. Cline, Sr. (1873-1941). The elder Cline had come to...
American poetry -- North Carolina -- Jackson County; Businesswomen -- North Carolina -- Jackson County; Historic buildings -- North Carolina -- Jackson County; Christmas stories; Folk music -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Motion pictures --...
The show begins with Amy reading an original poem called “It’s Christmas.” The reading is accompanied by Ron Smith’s rendition of “O Christmas Tree.” Doreyl’s guest on Creative Corner is Lisa Bradley Potts of Barker’s Creek, who is...
This photograph depicts an appliqué quilt identified as the "Honey Bee" design. The quilt may have been sold through Allanstand Cottage Industries in the early 1900s. This photograph may have been used as an example of a quilt design available...
