A Book of Hand-woven Coverlets

A Book of Hand-woven Coverlets

Author: Eliza Caroline Calvert Obenchain

Publisher:

Published: 1912

Total Pages: 570

ISBN-13:

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Discussion of the craftsmanship involved in making coverlets. More than 50 coverlet designs are reproduced, 16 in color.


Overshot

Overshot

Author: Susan Falls

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2020-03-01

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 0820357723

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Woven coverlets have appeared in several guises within the history of folk textiles. Created on four-harness looms, coverlets made in the nineteenth-century American South typically featured colored wool and cotton threads woven into striking geometric patterns. Although they are not as well known as other textiles and domestic objects, “overshot” coverlets were, and continue to be, significant examples of material culture that require tremendous skill and creativity to produce. They also express currents of conformity and dissent. In addition to being pleasing to the eye and hand, “overshot” coverlets have advanced a variety of social and political ends. At times exhibited in slave quarters along the seaboard in Georgia and South Carolina in association with plantation properties, they also appear in piedmont areas attached to the antebellum yeomanry, in the context of nationalist craft revivals, and in white-box contemporary art. With Overshot, Susan Falls and Jessica R. Smith analyze what we can learn by examining the exhibition and interpretation of these materials within American public history. By showing how geometric overshot coverlets can be understood in relationship to the global economy and within politicized cultural movements, Falls and Smith demonstrate how these erstwhile domestic, utilitarian objects explode the art/craft dichotomy, belong to a rich narrative of historical art forms, and tell us far more about American culture today than simply representing a nostalgic past, particularly with regard to ideas about race, class, nationalism, women’s labor, and the separation of private versus public spaces.


Textile Art from Southern Appalachia

Textile Art from Southern Appalachia

Author: Kathleen Curtis Wilson

Publisher: The Overmountain Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 9781570721984

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Features forty-four coverlets and two quilts made by hand weavers who lived in Western North Carolina, Eastern Kentucky, East Tennessee, and Southwest Virginia. Ms. Wilson has spent many years researching southern Appalachian overshot coverlet weaving.


Jacquard's Web

Jacquard's Web

Author: James Essinger

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2007-03-29

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 0192805789

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Traces the 200-year evolution of the principles of Jacquard's knitting machines to the information revolution of the twentieth century and the desk-top computer of today. --From cover (p. 4).


Weaving Designs by Bertha Gray Hayes

Weaving Designs by Bertha Gray Hayes

Author: Norma Smayda

Publisher: Schiffer Craft

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780764332463

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This book features the original sample collection and handwritten drafts of the talented, early 20th century weaver, Bertha Gray Hayes of Providence, Rhode Island. She designed and wove miniature overshot patterns for four-harness looms that are creative and unique. The book contains color reproductions of 72 original sample cards and 20 recently discovered patterns, many shown with a picture of the woven sample, and each with computer-generated drawdowns and drafting patterns. Her designs are unique in their asymmetry and personal in her use of name drafting to create the designs. Bertha Hayes attended the first nine National Conferences of American Handweavers (1938-1946). She learned to weave by herself through the Shuttle-Craft home course and was a charter member of the Shuttle-Craft Guild, and authored articles on weaving.