Interview with Juanita Metcalf

Interview with Juanita Metcalf

Arts

Metcalf, Juanita L.

Quilting

Quiltmakers

In this interview, retired teacher, Juanita Metcalf, talks about growing up in a family where quilting was a tradition. She tried many different crafts herself, but fell in love with quilting after attending a quilting show. Juanita is self-taught and says she is motivated by the beauty of quilts. She has given demonstrations and instructed others at the North Carolina Quilt Symposium and produces the Arts and Crafts Show at the Balsam Mountain Inn. Quiltmakers of Haywood County produce traditional quilts that represent the heritage of the Southern Appalachians, according to Juanita. For some quilting is their main source of income, but for her it is something that she loves. This interview was part of a project--Quilting: Craft and Context--undertaken by the Mountain Heritage Center at Western Carolina University.

Metcalf, Juanita L.

WCU Mountain Heritage Center Oral Histories

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

1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s (Decade);

2000-06-21

Smith, Laurie

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application/pdf; audio/mp3;

sound recordings

transcripts

interviews

eng

Sound

Text

36368

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/36368

2015-03-24

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Haywood County (N.C.)

Appalachian Region, Southern

21 pages (transcript)(duration)

45:42 (sound recording)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina