Artistic Weaving in the Mountains of North Carolina
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A 1917 magazine article profiling Mrs. Finley Mast, a hand weaver at Brookside Farm in Valle Crucis, Watauga County, North Carolina. It describes her loom house, her three old looms, the coverlets, rugs and towels she weaves from farm-grown cotton, flax and wool, and traditional pattern names. It also covers her fame after the Knoxville exposition and her blue Sun, Moon and Star rugs for the Blue Mountain Room of the White House under Mrs. Woodrow Wilson. Illustrated with photographs of the White House room, the loom house and Mrs. Mast at her loom.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- August 1917
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 2
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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