This is a man's 2-button cutaway jacket circa 1860-1880s. The material is a heavy coarse denim with hand-stitched buttonholes and alamance plaid lining. An information tag indicates: Worn by James Wood, Cowarts N.C. who died in 1884.
This unpaginated booklet contains 25 recipes for creating dyes from natural materials, such as onion skins, walnut bark and wild coreopsis. The booklet was written by Mitchell County, N.C. native Emma Conley (Mrs. Grover Conley) who taught dyeing…
This price list was produced by the Penland Weavers and Potters, at the time a division of the Appalachian School in Penland, N.C. It gives the prices for and describes the hand woven goods, pewter ware, and bayberry candles made and sold by the…
These 12 black and white photographs are of items woven and sold by the Penland Weavers and Potters during the 1940s and 1950s. The images depict hand-woven scarves, placemats (including some woven with sedge grass), napkins, runners, mats, aprons…
This price list was produced by the Penland Weavers and Potters, during the time the community craft cooperative was a division of the Appalachian School in Penland, North Carolina. It gives the prices for and describes the hand woven goods, pewter…
This 16-page booklet lists prices and descriptions for the items made and sold by the Penland Weavers and Potters, ca. 1940-1945. The booklet is illustrated with black and white photographs of numerous products. Products include hand woven items…
This 43 page booklet tells of the founding of the Appalachian School near Penland, N.C., the organization and early years of the Penland Weavers and Potters, and the establishment of Penland School of Handicrafts, now known as Penland School of…
Mountain Milestones was a newsletter published by the Penland Weavers and Potters as a vehicle for disseminating news about the Penland community, the work of the Penland Weavers and Potters, and information on the summer Weaving Institutes. Two…
This instructional brochure describes how to weave grass mats using cotton for the warp and pieces of broom sedge for the weft. It was one of a series of eleven "brieflets" published by Penland School of Handicrafts (now Penland School of Crafts)…