Ruth Hawkins and Gladys Rogers with carvings

Ruth Hawkins and Gladys Rogers with carvings

Brasstown Carvers

John C. Campbell Folk School

Women woodworkers

Wood-carvers

Wood-carving

Ruth Hawkins (right) and JCCFS staff member Gladys Rogers looking at a table of woodcarvings. Ruth Fleming Hawkins (1917-unknown) began carving at age 20, at a time when there were few women among the Brasstown Carvers. Her attention to quality and detail brought great demand for her carvings. She began with napkin rings, progressed to animal figures – especially cats – and later carved Christmas ornaments and human figures. Ruth made her own patterns. Her son Claude Hawkins was also a Brasstown Carver.

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