Isadora Williams Weaving Notebook II

Isadora Williams Weaving Notebook II

Handicraft

Penland School of Crafts

Penland School of Handicrafts

Weaving -- Appalachian Region, Southern

This notebook was compiled by Isadora Williams, probably in the mid-1930s, during her attendance at one of the Weaving Institutes sponsored by the Penland School of Handicrafts (now Penland School of Crafts). The notebook contains mostly instructions for weaving patterns along with weaving samples. The weaving instructions, also called weaving drafts, are in the form of typed instructions produced by weaving instructor Edward Worst and Williams' accompanying hand-written weaving drafts and notes on treadling. Many of Worst's typed drafts also include small black and white photographs of the finished weaving pattern. Isadora Williams (1884-1976) was a Home Marketing Specialist with the University of Tennessee Agricultural Extension Service, and was an accomplished rug weaver and a founding member of the Southern Highland Craft Guild. She attended the summer Weaving Institutes at Penland several times during the 1930s and 1940s.

Williams, Isadora

Isadora Williams Collection

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

1930/1939

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2006-11-30

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Appalachian Region, Southern

8.5" x 11" x 1"(dimension)

Craft Revival