President's Blue Mountain Room at the White House

President's Blue Mountain Room at the White House

Allanstand Cottage Industries

Arts and crafts movement

Coverlets

Hand weaving

Handicraft

Handloom industry

Household linens

Textile crafts -- Appalachian Region, Southern

Textile fabrics

Weaving -- Appalachian Region, Southern

This photographic postcard depicts the use of handwoven textiles in the weave pattern Sun, Moon, and Stars to decorate President Woodrow Wilson's White House bedroom around 1913. The room came to be known as the Blue Mountain Room. First Lady Ellen Wilson hoped to encourage an increased public interest in the plight of those living in the Appalachian Mountains through the extensive use of handwoven textiles. Elmeda McHargue Walker of Tennessee (or Elkin, North Carolina) wove the blue and white material for the curtains and furniture. Allie Josephine Mast (1861 -1936) of Watauga County, North Carolina, wove the rugs and other fabrics. Walker lived a few miles from Allanstand, North Carolina and was a weaver who sold goods through Allanstand Cottage Industries in its early years.

Harris & Ewing

Frances L. Goodrich Collection

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

1913/1919

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2006-11-14

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Appalachian Region, Southern

3.5" x 5.5"(dimension)

Craft Revival