Community Weaving Day

Community Weaving Day

Artisans

Log cabins

This photograph taken by Bayard Wootten in the 1920s shows the community weavers outside of the Weaving Cabin adjacent to the campus of the the Appalachian School near Penland, North Carolina. From 1923 to 1938 the Appalachian School served as the umbrella institution under which the Penland Weavers and Potters were organized and Penland School of Handicrafts (now Penland School of Crafts) was established. The Weaving Cabin was built in May 1926 during a community log-raising. The cabin served as the center for the Penland Weavers and Potters, the community craft co-operative established by Lucy Morgan in 1923. Wednesday was "weaving day" when the weavers would bring their woven goods to the cabin. They were paid for their finished products and given yarn and thread to take home to weave into new goods. During weaving day the women would receive instruction in new weave patterns while socializing with friends and neighbors.

Wootten, Bayard Morgan, 1875-1959

Bayard Wootten Photograph Collection

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

1926/1929

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2008-01-16

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Mitchell County (N.C.)

Appalachian Region, Southern

4.25" x 6.26"(dimension)

Craft Revival