Weave pattern: Beautiful Waves

Weave pattern: Beautiful Waves

Arts and crafts movement

Handicraft

Textile fabrics

Weaving -- Appalachian Region, Southern

Weaving -- Patterns

These two early 1900s weaving drafts illustrate the coverlet pattern known as Beautiful Waves. 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. These drafts are in the collection of Frances Louisa Goodrich (1856-1944), who recorded weaving patterns she collected in and around Asheville, North Carolina. The first, SHCG_FLG6_BB67, was originally given to Goodrich by Mrs. Allen of Rochester, New York. On the other, SHCG_FLG6_scrap5, "Tenn." is written on the pattern strip and probably denotes the origin of the design. Mrs. Allen was one of several people with whom Goodrich exchanged coverlet patterns. Both drafts note the wavy border around the edges of the pattern.

Allen, Mrs.

Frances L. Goodrich Collection

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

1900/1930

Goodrich, Frances Louisa

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crafts (art genres)

eng

StillImage

16420

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/16420

2009-06-18

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Buncombe County (N.C.)

Appalachian Region, Southern

2.75" x 9"(dimension)

Craft Revival