Weave Pattern: Double Bow Knot

Weave Pattern: Double Bow Knot

Allanstand Cottage Industries

Arts and crafts movement

Coverlets

Hand weaving

Handicraft

Handloom industry

Southern Highland Handicraft Guild

Textile fabrics

Weaving -- Appalachian Region, Southern

This color image is a close-up of the weave pattern known as Double Bow Knot. The Double Bow Knot pattern derives its name from the half bows that join in the middle forming a square-shaped knot. Bow knot patterns can be created in a multitude of sizes. The photograph shows the center seam that is slightly off as to a perfect match. The coverlet is woven using a natural linen warp. The brown wool pattern weft yarns are dyed with chestnut oak bark. Both fibers were hand spun. A fabric label sewn to the coverlet reads, “This piece started the Allanstand Industries.” Allanstand Cottage Industries was a craft cooperative founded in western North Carolina in the 1890s by Frances Louisa Goodrich (1856-1944). Goodrich came to the mountains of western North Carolina to teach at a Presbyterian mission located nine miles outside Asheville, North Carolina. The coverlet, reportedly made in the 1850s by an unidentified weaver, was presented to Frances Goodrich by Mrs. William Davis of Brittain's Cove, North Carolina in the mid-1890s. It is historically important as this Double Bow Knot coverlet is the gift Goodrich credited with inspiring her to revive weaving and other crafts in the western North Carolina region. The coverlet was donated to the Southern Highland Handicraft Guild, along with the rest of Goodrich's craft collection.

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Permanent Collection

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

1850-1860

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crafts (art genres)

StillImage

15359

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2008-7-28

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Appalachian Region, Southern

92" x 65"(dimension)

Craft Revival