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 10, 1937, Ashe writes about the order she is doing for Douglas and how someone has been putting articles about her work in the papers, and because of such she is having a hard time getting everything done due to increased orders.

Ashe, Rebecca Gibbs

Photographic Media

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

1937-07-10

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letters (correspondence)

eng

Text

16181

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/16181

2008-12-01

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Jackson County (N.C.)

Appalachian Region, Southern

11" x 8.5"(dimension)

Craft Revival