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[Weave pattern: Rattlesnake]

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Title	[Weave pattern: Rattlesnake]
Creator	Goodrich, Frances Louisa
Medium of Original	artifacts
Date of Orginal	1900/1930
Description	This watercolor drawdown and two drafts illustrate a weave pattern known as Rattlesnake. To record a pattern, a weaver creates a draft and/or a drawdown. A draft looks much like a strip of musical notation; a drawdown is a visual grid that illustrates a single weaving block. This drawdown was made by Frances Louisa Goodrich (1856-1944), who recorded weaving patterns she collected in and around Asheville, North Carolina. A popular weave pattern, Rattlesnake is sometimes called Cat Track & Snail Trail. There are no notes indicating who presented Goodrich with the original draft pattern, which she pasted into a notebook of drafts. At the bottom of her own copy, written in a second notebook, Goodrich noted the colors “Brown/ Green/ Red” at the bottom of the page.
Subject - Topic	Handicraft -- Appalachian Region, Southern Arts and crafts movement -- Appalachian Region, Southern
Subject - Craft	Weaving -- Appalachian Region, Southern Weaving -- Patterns
Craft Category	textiles
Time Period	1900s (Decade) 1910s 1920s
Location	Buncombe County (N.C.)
Source Institution	Southern Highland Craft Guild
Collection	Southern Highland Craft Guild Records. Frances L. Goodrich papers.
Inventory Number	SHCG_FLG6_BB2
Copyright Information
Digital Publisher	Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723