This postcard depicts two women spinning flax in front of the fireplace in the newly constructed Edward F. Worst Craft House adjacent to the campus of the Appalachian School in Penland, North Carolina, ca. 1935-1936. The older woman seated to the…
This map of Penland School of Handicrafts (now Penland School of Crafts) is one of a number of campus maps that have been printed over the years. They have served to promote the school, orient visitors, students and instructors, and to entertain the…
This map of Penland School of Handicrafts (now Penland School of Crafts) is one of a number of campus maps that have been printed over the years. They have served to promote the school, orient visitors, students and instructors, and to entertain the…
Titled The Penland Scene and Roads to Penland, these maps of the Penland School of Handicrafts (now the Penland School of Crafts) campus and the surrounding area are two of a number of maps that have been printed over the years. They have served to…
This campus map of Penland School of Handicrafts (now Penland School of Crafts) is one of a number of maps that have been printed over the years. They have served to promote the school, orient visitors, students and instructors, and to entertain the…
This instructional booklet on how to weave curtain fabric was written and illustrated by Howard C. "Toni" Ford and was one of a series of eleven "brieflets" published by Penland School of Handicrafts (now Penland School of Crafts) around 1943.
The second National Conference on Handicrafts met at Penland School of Crafts, August 26 - September 4, 1940. The event was co-hosted by Penland and the Southern Highland Handicraft Guild, though most of the documentation of the conference seems to…
This booklet outlines a worship service for craftsmen which was part of the tenth anniversary celebration of the founding of Penland School of Handicrafts (now Penland School of Crafts). This worship service was compiled in 1939 by the Rev. Peter…
The woman in the photograph is "warping the chain," a weaving term for measuring out the threads to be used as the warp on the loom. The first layer of threads, strung lengthwise onto the loom, is called the warp. A second length of thread, the…
John C. Campbell at age 40-45 or from the period 1907-1912. John C. Campbell (1867-1919) was born in La Porte, Ind., on 14 September 1867 to Gavin and Anna Barbara (Kipp) Campbell, and grew up in Steven's Point, Wisc. He graduated from Williams…