Weave pattern: Compass Work

Weave pattern: Compass Work

Arts and crafts movement

Handicraft

Textile fabrics

Weaving -- Appalachian Region, Southern

Weaving -- Patterns

This watercolor drawdown and draft illustrate a weave pattern known as Compass Work. To record a pattern, a weaver creates a draft and/or a drawdown. A draft looks much like a strip of musical notation; a drawdown is a visual grid that illustrates a single weaving block. This drawdown was made by Frances Louisa Goodrich (1856-1944), who recorded weaving patterns she collected in and around Asheville, North Carolina. Goodrich made a note that this pattern was the "earliest collected"; however, the draft is not dated. Goodrich pasted the original drafts into a notebook and created her own numerical version in a second notebook. She worked out the schematic pattern in visual form and painted a watercolor to illustrate the pattern block. This pattern was also known as "Zion Rose" and "The Ring."

Goodrich, Frances Louisa

Frances L. Goodrich Collection

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

1900/1930

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artifacts (object genre)

eng

StillImage

16356

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/16356

2009-06-18

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Buncombe County (N.C.)

Appalachian Region, Southern

Craft Revival