Weave pattern: St. Anne's Robe

Weave pattern: St. Anne's Robe

Arts and crafts movement

Handicraft

Textile fabrics

Weaving -- Appalachian Region, Southern

Weaving -- Patterns

This watercolor drawdown and two drafts illustrate a variation of the coverlet pattern known as St. Anne's Robe. 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 wrote the name “Susan C. Lindsay” at the lower edge of the drawdown, probably the weaver who gave her this pattern. St. Anne's Robe is an old weaving draft that traveled to the United States from Ireland.

Goodrich, Frances Louisa

Frances L. Goodrich Collection

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

1900/1930

Lindsay, Susan C.

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artifacts (object genre)

eng

StillImage

16429

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/16429

2009-07-01

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Buncombe County (N.C.)

Appalachian Region, Southern

Craft Revival