Bedspread: tufted with fringe

Bedspread: tufted with fringe

Allanstand Cottage Industries

Artisans

Arts and crafts movement

Craft shops

Handicraft

Handicraft industries

Household linens

Needlework

Textile crafts -- Appalachian Region, Southern

Textile fabrics

This photograph depicts a tufted bedspread, believed to have been sold through Allanstand Cottage Industries during the 1910s. The back of the photograph is stamped "Miss W. C. Wilkie, West Asheville, N.C." along with a note in Frances Goodrich's hand reading: "Intricate & elaborate design in use over 100 years - It is worked in firm heavy knots on [cotton] cloth, in self colors - The fringe is an old hand-tied pattern." The maker of this bedspread is unknown. Tufting was a domestic handcraft that was revived in the 1890s throughout the southeastern U.S. The process became mechanized and continued as the manufactured chenille bedspreads that became popular in the 1940s and 1950s.

Allanstand Cottage Industries

Frances L. Goodrich Collection

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

1910/1919

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2006-11-17

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Appalachian Region, Southern

4.75" x 6"(dimension)

Craft Revival