Girl at the Loom, Penland, North Carolina

Girl at the Loom, Penland, North Carolina

Artisans

Handicraft

Handicraft industries

Penland School of Crafts

Penland School of Handicrafts

Penland Weavers and Potters

Weaving -- Appalachian Region, Southern

This photographic postcard depicts Mae Gouge (1911-1994) seated at a loom. The photograph for the postcard was taken around 1926-28 by Bayard Wootten in the Weaving Cabin, headquarters for the Penland Weavers and Potters, the community weaving cooperative organized by Lucy Morgan in 1923 under the auspices of the Appalachian School near Penland, North Carolina. From 1923 to 1938 the Appalachian School served as the umbrella institution under which the Penland Weavers and Potters were organized and the Penland School of Handicrafts (now Penland School of Crafts) was established. The photographic image of Mae Gouge was rendered into a woodcut and used as the logo for Penland School of Handicrafts until 1961. Gouge was a native of Mitchell County; she married Ed Huskins in 1934 and the two of them for many years owned and operated the Circle Restaurant in Spruce Pine, North Carolina.

Gray and Thompson Advertising (Chapel Hill, N.C.)

Penland School of Crafts Records

Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

1926/1928

Wootten, Bayard Morgan, 1875-1959

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2006-05-11

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Mitchell County (N.C.)

Appalachian Region, Southern

3.25" x 5.25"(dimension)

Craft Revival