Weaving Research

Weavers of the Southern Highlands
University Press of Kentucky, 2003

After more the ten years of research into the weaving center of the Appalachian Mountains during the first part of the twentieth century, this book was published.

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Eliza Calvert Hall, “A Book of Handwoven Coverlets,” and Collecting Coverlet Patterns in Early Twentieth Century Appalachia

This paper was presented at the Textile Society of America conference in 2018.
 

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Churchill Weavers: 80 Years of American Handweaving
 

This paper was presented at the Textile Society of America conference in 2004.
 

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Weaving History Conference Thousand Islands Arts Center

Presentations

2015 — The Sixteens

2016 -- Weaving and the Beginnings of the Appalachian Craft Revival

2017 -- Churchill Weavers: 1922 - 2007

2018 -- The Early History of Weaving in Eastern Tennessee

2019 -- Eliza Calvert Hall, “A Book of Handwoven Coverlets,” and Collecting Coverlet Patterns in Early Twentieth Century Appalachia

I was privileged to contribute to Hal Jacobs's
documentary project on Mary Hambidge. 

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