[Papers] / Laura M. Allen and Helen D. Young. 1900-1949.

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[Papers] / Laura M. Allen and Helen D. Young. 1900-1949.

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Includes scrapbooks containing weavers' drafts, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, photographs, and some cloth samples (swatches). The scrapbooks are labeled: Hooked rugs; Hand weaving, 1924 to 1929; Laura M. Allen, 30 Arville Heights, Rochester, N.Y.; Table linen; and T.J. Ewing drafts. A label on the inside cover of the Ewing scrapbook says he was a master weaver who came to America from Germany in 1734 and settled in Broadway, Va. At his death, he left a handbook of coverlet, towel and other drafts; this scrapbook is a copy of those drafts. Also includes 7 volumes of weavers' drafts, some in color; the volumes are stamped "Laura M. Allen Collection of Drafts." Also contains additional weavers' drafts, some with cloth samples (swatches); correspondence, 1928-1936, from Mary M. Atwater to Laura Allen, most from Helena and Basin, Montana, concerning hand weaving and the Shuttle-Craft Guild; and notebooks of Helen Young concerning weaving, dyeing, knitting, etc.

12 v. + 2 boxes.

American Textile History Museum Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7615964

American Textile History Museum Library

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Young, Helen D.

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Ewing, Thomas, 1829-1896

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Soldier, lawyer, congressman from Ohio. From the description of Letter, 1858 Nov. 2, Leavenworth, Kansas, to Charles Lanman, Georgetown, D.C. (Ohio State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 16218217 American army officer and politician. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington, to William H. Seward, 1866 Oct. 31. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270531100 ...

Allen, Laura Mary

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Allen and Young were weavers and collectors of weavers' drafts. The materials were originally collected by Allen, then acquired by Young, who added to the collection. From the description of [Papers] / Laura M. Allen and Helen D. Young. 1900-1949. (American Textile History Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 49937776 ...

Shuttle Craft Guild

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Atwater, Mary Meigs

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Mary Meigs Atwater was born in Rock Island, Illinois, on 28 February 1878. She received her early education by private tutors, and studied design in France around the turn of the twentieth century. She married Maxwell W. Atwater, a mining engineer, in 1903 and the couple had two children, Montgomery and Elizabeth. She organized a hand loom weaver's guild while living in Basin, Montana, around 1916 and eventually offered correspondence courses for the craft based on her research of various design...