Isadora Williams Weaving Notebook I

Isadora Williams Weaving Notebook I

Dyes and dyeing

Handicraft

Penland School of Crafts

Penland School of Handicrafts

Textile fabrics

Weaving -- Appalachian Region, Southern

This notebook (front cover is missing) was compiled by Isadora Williams, probably in the early 1930s, during her attendance at one of the Weaving Institutes sponsored by the Penland School of Handicrafts (now Penland School of Crafts). The notebook contains mostly weaving patterns or weaving drafts in the form of typed instructions produced by weaving instructor Edward Worst and Williams' accompanying hand-written drafts. The notebook also contains some hand woven samples, Williams' notes on dyeing with natural materials, brief biographical information on Worst, printed excerpts about the early history of the summer courses by Bonnie Willis Ford, and a list of students and instructors from the 1931, 1932, and undated Weaving Institutes. Isadora Williams (1884-1976) was a Home Marketing Specialist with the University of Tennessee Agricultural Extension Service, and was an accomplished rug weaver and a founding member of the Southern Highland Craft Guild. She attended the summer Weaving Institutes at Penland several times during the 1930s and 1940s.

Williams, Isadora

Isadora Williams Collection

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

1930/1939

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manuscripts (documents)

eng

Text

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2013-05-07

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Appalachian Region, Southern

8.5" x 11" x .5"(dimension)

Craft Revival