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Weaving Day at Penland: A Photographic Analysis
- NWSA Journal
- Indiana University Press
- Volume 11, Number 3, Fall 1999
- pp. 18-23
- Article
- Additional Information
This article considers the photographic images of Appalachian women who were part of the Crafts Revival movement of the 1920s and 1930s in Appalachia. It challenges the popular images created to promote the crafts revival, while proposing contemporary understandings and economic motives which informed women's participation in weaving.