Look Up, Think Up, Lift Up: A Short Biography of Nellie Sargent Johnson
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A short biography of Nellie Sargent Johnson (1887-c.1950s), a Detroit weaver, teacher and editor of the newsletter Handweaving News. It covers her education, early dietetics career, weaving instruction at Wayne State, her 1939 Peru trip and collection of ancient and modern Peruvian textiles, and her death after a hip fracture. A closing section describes the Sears Hearthside looms she designed (rigid heddle and six-shaft folding floor loom), their catalog history from 1940 to 1953, and evidence that the Pope Machine Company of Kankakee manufactured them.
- Type
- Web Doc
- Date
- 1998
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 4
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