Weave pattern: Rattlesnake

Weave pattern: Rattlesnake

Arts and crafts movement

Handicraft

Textile fabrics

Weaving -- Appalachian Region, Southern

Weaving -- Patterns

This watercolor drawdown and two drafts illustrate a weave pattern known as Rattlesnake. 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. A popular weave pattern, Rattlesnake is sometimes called Cat Track & Snail Trail. There are no notes indicating who presented Goodrich with the original draft pattern, which she pasted into a notebook of drafts. At the bottom of her own copy, written in a second notebook, Goodrich noted the colors “Brown/ Green/ Red” at the bottom of the page.

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

16428

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2009-07-01

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Buncombe County (N.C.)

Appalachian Region, Southern

Craft Revival