Author: Bertha Marie NienburgPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Appalachians (People).
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Potential Earning Power of Southern Mountaineer Handicraft
Author: Bertha Marie NienburgPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Appalachians (People).
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Southern Tufts
Author: Ashley CallahanPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820345164
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Southern Tufts is the first book to highlight the garments produced by northwestern Georgia’s tufted textile industry. Though best known now for its production of carpet, in the early twentieth century the region was revered for its handtufted candlewick bedspreads, products that grew out of the Southern Appalachian Craft Revival and appealed to the vogue for Colonial Revival–style household goods. Soon after the bedspreads became popular, enterprising women began creating hand-tufted garments, including candlewick kimonos in the 1920s and candlewick dresses in the early 1930s. By the late 1930s, large companies offered machine-produced chenille beach capes, jackets, and robes. In the 1940s and 1950s, chenille robes became an American fashion staple. At the end of the century, interest in chenille fashion revived, fueled by nostalgia and an interest in recycling vintage materials. Chenille bedspreads, bathrobes, and accessories hung for sale both in roadside souvenir shops, especially along the Dixie Highway, and in department stores all over the nation. Callahan tells the story of chenille fashion and its connections to stylistic trends, automobile tourism, industrial developments, and U.S. history. The well-researched and heavily illustrated text presents a broad history of tufted textiles, as well as sections highlighting individual craftspeople and manufacturers involved with the production of chenille fashion.
Weavers of the Southern Highlands
Author: Philis AlvicPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813188407
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Weaving centers led the Appalachian Craft Revival at the beginning of the twentieth century. Soon after settlement workers came to the mountains to start schools, they expanded their focus by promoting weaving as a way for women to help their family's financial situation. Women wove thousands of guest towels, baby blankets, and place mats that found a ready market in the women's network of religious denominations, arts organizations, and civic clubs. In Weavers of the Southern Highlands, Philis Alvic details how the Fireside Industries of Berea College in Kentucky began with women weaving to supply their children's school expenses and later developed student labor programs, where hundreds of students covered their tuition by weaving. Arrowcraft, associated with Pi Beta Phi School at Gatlinburg, Tennessee, and the Penland Weavers and Potters, begun at the Appalachian School at Penland, North Carolina, followed the Berea model. Women wove at home with patterns and materials supplied by the center, returning their finished products to the coordinating organization to be marketed. Dozens of similar weaving centers dotted mountain ridges.
Rural Family Living
Author: Domestic Commerce
Author: United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic CommercePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
Annual Report of the United States Department of Labor
Author: United States. Dept. of LaborPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Employees
Languages : en
Pages : 1420
Book Description
Women in Arkansas Industries
Author: Agnes Lydia PetersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clerks
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
School Life
Author: Summary of State Hour Laws for Women and Minimum-wage Rates
Author: American Association of University WomenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hours of labor
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Summaries of Studies on the Economic Status of Women
Author: American Association of University WomenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description