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. This letter is missing its first and last pages. Page two begins with Ashe writing about the local people she has taught to help with her business. She describes her plans for building a weaving house closer to the highway. She ends with more details of her involvement with Mrs. Adams and how that person tricked several women out of their money.

Ashe, Rebecca Gibbs

Photographic Media

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

1937-09-14

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letters (correspondence)

eng

Text

15524

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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