Weave pattern: Compass Work

Weave pattern: Compass Work

Arts and crafts movement

Handicraft

Textile fabrics

Weaving -- Appalachian Region, Southern

Weaving -- Patterns

This series of weaving drafts illustrates a pattern known as Compass Work. 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. Frances Louisa Goodrich (1856-1944) recorded weaving patterns she collected in and around Asheville, North Carolina. These drafts were given to Goodrich by Martha Owenby from Fairview, a community southwest of Asheville. The draft from Owenby lists the pattern name as Compass Work, but another notes that the pattern is “Identical with Zion Rose." A variation on the pattern is also known as The Ring. These varied drafts of Compass Work demonstrates Goodrich’s method of interpreting the drafts 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

Owenby, Martha

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artifacts (object genre)

eng

StillImage

16445

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/16445

2009-06-18

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Buncombe County (N.C.)

Appalachian Region, Southern

Craft Revival