Weave pattern: Waggon Wheels

Weave pattern: Waggon Wheels

Arts and crafts movement

Handicraft

Textile fabrics

Weaving -- Appalachian Region, Southern

Weaving -- Patterns

This watercolor drawdown and two drafts illustrate a weave pattern identified as Waggon Wheels (Wagon Wheels). 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. This pattern likely came to Goodrich from Mary Shearer of Carlisle, Pennsylvania. On the draft Goodrich noted, “Shearer,” and "(Phebe Durfee?).” Shearer, who received drafts from family members, may have questioned whether or not this pattern came from her great grandmother, Phebe Durfee Young.

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

16432

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/16432

2009-07-01

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Buncombe County (N.C.)

Appalachian Region, Southern

Craft Revival