Weave pattern: Young Lady's Perplexity

Weave pattern: Young Lady's Perplexity

Arts and crafts movement

Handicraft

Textile fabrics

Weaving -- Appalachian Region, Southern

Weaving -- Patterns

This watercolor drawdown and draft illustrate a weave pattern known as Young Lady's Perplexity (also seen written "Young Ladies Perplexity"). 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. At the top of the drawdown, Goodrich notes its date, “circa 1811” and place of origin, “from Tennessee.”

Goodrich, Frances Louisa

Frances L. Goodrich Collection

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

1900/1930

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crafts (art genres)

eng

StillImage

16433

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/16433

2009-07-01

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Buncombe County (N.C.)

Appalachian Region, Southern

Craft Revival