Southern Highland Handicraft Guild Collection, 1993-1995

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Southern Highland Handicraft Guild Collection, 1993-1995

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http://www2.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/s/Southern_Highland_Handicraft_Guild.html

Abstract

The Southern Highland Handicraft Guild is a non-profit educational organization with a focus on teaching people in the southern Appalachian mountains traditional handicrafts and providing market outlets for them. The Guild represents over 700 craftspeople in 293 counties of nine southeastern states. From 1993 to 1995, Georgia Wier, folklorist for the Southern Highland Handicraft Guild, with assistance from Ron Ruehl, Patience Bingham, and Betsy Baker, documented the handicraft work of individual, educational, and organizational members of the Guild in North Carolina. The documentation consisted of interviews with individual artists focusing on their craft and their association with the Guild and other folk art schools, organizations, or family businesses. The handicrafts of woodworking and weaving are particularly well represented, with a number of folk schools and artists documented. Also included are colonial knotting, pewter work, pottery, Hmong needlework, and dried flower arrangement.

Extent

788 items (0.5 linear feet)

Languages

eng,

Holding Repository

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection.

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6629085

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection.

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