Early Decorative Weaving in America
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A 1914 magazine article, the seventh in a series on early American crafts, surveying decorative coverlet weaving in Colonial and early nineteenth-century America. It covers home weaving versus itinerant and professional weavers, the sharing of pattern drafts, pattern names, vegetable dyes and colors, and the revival of the craft in the Southern mountains at Berea College and Asheville. Illustrated with photographs of blue, red and white coverlets and a page from an old draft book.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- September 1914
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 4
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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