Frances Elizabeth Parker Nicholson

Frances Elizabeth Parker Nicholson

Adult education

Cornhusk craft

Handicraft

This photograph of Frances Elizabeth Parker Nicholson (1897-1990) in the 1940s or 1950s shows her with a selection of her cornhusk crafts. As a self-taught craftsperson, Nicholson began experimenting with cornhusk crafts in the 1930s. She devised her own method of working with the raw materials producing hats, bags, dolls, slippers, flowers, and other assorted items. In the 1940s, she taught her weaving methods to groups of young women throughout western North Carolina under the National Youth Administration program. Her teaching and leadership abilities eventually earned her two state awards from the North Carolina Extension Service. In the 1980s she participated in a special show at the Southern Highland Handicraft Guild's Folk Art Center where several of her items were featured. A native and life-long resident of Jackson County, to her many admirers she was known as the "Corn Shuck Queen" of North Carolina.

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Frances Nicholson Collection

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

1940/1959

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13286

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2007-01-15

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Jackson County (N.C.)

Appalachian Region, Southern

10" x 8"(dimension)

Craft Revival