Weave pattern: Compass Work

Weave pattern: Compass Work

Arts and crafts movement

Handicraft

Textile fabrics

Weaving -- Appalachian Region, Southern

Weaving -- Patterns

This watercolor drawdown illustrates 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. The pattern was given to Goodrich by Maria Stillwell. There are three place names following: “Swain Co. / Macon Co. Nantahala.” All three places are in North Carolina, west of Asheville. Goodrich also noted that the pattern was “Almost identical with Cumi Woody’s.” This pattern is also know 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

Stillwell, Maria

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crafts (art genres)

eng

StillImage

16358

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/16358

2009-06-18

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Buncombe County (N.C.)

Appalachian Region, Southern

Craft Revival