This photographic postcard depicts an array of handwoven items including coverlets, throws, pillows, and rugs. The photograph dates to the early 1900s, but nothing is known about the items or location of the scene. This postcard was among the files…
This photograph depicts a display set up in Holderness, New Hampshire featuring products available through Allanstand Cottage Industries in 1909. The display features cornhusk hats, a hand-knotted bedspread, baskets, handwoven coverlets, an animal…
This early 1900s photograph was taken by an unknown photographer at the White Rock Fair. The photograph depicts an audience crowd gathered for an event with a backdrop of textiles hung as a display. Featured textiles include a crazy quilt, a woven…
The central figure of the photograph is an unidentified man using a freshly cut tree as the basis for his job of making shingles. He appears to be using a draw knife, a common tool used for woodworking. To the right, a second figure is sawing a…
This mounted photograph shows Elmeda Walker spinning on a big wheel outside of a mountain cabin in the late 1890s or early 1900s. Walker lived in Tennessee (or Elkin, North Carolina), just west of Allanstand, North Carolina; and Frances Goodrich…
This mounted photograph shows Elmeda Walker (b. 1837) and her sister Martha McHargue (b. 1842 and sometimes identified as Caroline) outside of a mountain cabin in the late 1890s or early 1900s. Walker is on the left seated at a small spinning wheel…
The women in the photograph are "warping the chain," a weaving term for measuring out the threads to be used as the warp on the loom. The fiber is on spools arranged on a long rack on the right of the photograph. The woman to the left of the…
This photograph was taken by an unknown photographer at the 1915 White Rock Fair. It features a display of several textiles including woven coverlets, two quilts, and a hooked rug hanging on the right-hand wall. The coverlet hanging between the two…
This photograph shows Elmeda Walker working at her loom outside of a mountain cabin in the late 1890s or early 1900s. The coverlet design is visible as it moves on to the weaver's lap. This photograph was used in promotional materials for…
This interior photograph of the Allanstand Cottage Industries salesroom was taken probably in the 1920s by Asheville photographer Herbert W. Pelton. The view shows the diversity of handmade items for sale. At the time the photograph was taken, the…