Aunt Harriet at the Flax Wheel, Penland, N.C.

Aunt Harriet at the Flax Wheel, Penland, N.C.

Appalachian Industrial School

Appalachian School (Penland, N.C.)

Handicraft

Handicraft industries

Penland School of Crafts

Penland School of Handicrafts

Penland Weavers and Potters

Spinning -- Appalachian Region, Southern

Fireplaces

Hearths

Spinning-wheel

Textile machinery

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 right is Harriet Conley (1855-1940), a Western North Carolina native who taught flax spinning at the school during the 1930s. The woman seated on the left may be either Harriet or Janet Turnball, both of whom were students in the summer Weaving Institutes from Casanova, VA. The photograph for this postcard was taken by Bayard Wootten. 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.

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

Penland School of Crafts Records

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

1935/1936

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