Rebecca Ashe to Clementine Douglas, 1937

Rebecca Ashe to Clementine Douglas, 1937

Arts and crafts movement

Handicraft

Weaving -- Appalachian Region, Southern

Rebecca Gibbs Ashe (Mrs. Napoleon Bonaparte Ashe) was a self taught weaver living near Sylva, North Carolina. She made her first loom from wood donated by a neighbor on which she began weaving rugs. She did her own dyeing and created unique homespun which was popular with visitors, including Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. By 1937 she had met Clementine Douglas and Allen Eaton who placed orders for fabric. In this letter dated July 29, 1937, Ashe writes about the order she is doing for Douglas, problems with the laundry - that turned out fine, hopes of training other weavers, wanting sox tops for rugs, the problems of working by lamp light, and the draft for a pattern she designed.

Ashe, Rebecca Gibbs

Photographic Media

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

1937-07-29

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letters (correspondence)

eng

Text

15501

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2008-12-1

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Jackson County (N.C.)

Appalachian Region, Southern

11" x 8.5"(dimension)

Craft Revival