Weave pattern: Compass Work

Weave pattern: Compass Work

Arts and crafts movement

Handicraft

Textile fabrics

Weaving -- Appalachian Region, Southern

Weaving -- Patterns

This watercolor drawdown and draft illustrate a weave pattern known as Compass Work (here titled "Compus Woark"). 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. The pattern draft was given to Goodrich by Cumi Woody. The drawdown and draft demonstrate Goodrich’s method of interpreting the patterns she collected. She pasted the originals into a notebook and created her own numerical version in a second notebook. She worked out the schematic pattern in visual form and painted a watercolor to illustrate the pattern block.

Goodrich, Frances Louisa

Frances L. Goodrich Collection

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

1900/1930

Woody, Cumi

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artifacts (object genre)

eng

StillImage

16443

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/16443

2009-06-18

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Buncombe County (N.C.)

Appalachian Region, Southern

Craft Revival