Lucy Calista Morgan and Edward Worst at a flax wheel

Description

This photograph depicts Lucy Calista Morgan, founder of the Penland School of Handicrafts in Penland , N.C., with weaving instructor Edward Worst, of Chicago, Ill., at a flax wheel. This photograph was taken around 1932 or 1933 by Bayard Wootten on the porch of Morgan Hall, which was one of the buildings at the Appalachian Industrial School. From 1923 to 1938 the Appalachian Industrial School served as the umbrella institution under which the Penland Weavers and Potters were organized and the Penland School of Handicrafts (now Penland School of Crafts) was established. Morgan family lore has it that Lucy Morgan learned to spin flax from Edward Worst. The garment Morgan was wearing over her dress was known as the Penland Smock. The fabric was woven and the garment constructed by the Penland Weavers and Potters. The smock was first sold at Penland's exhibition at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair.
Details
- Creator
  - Wootten, Bayard Morgan, 1875-1959
- Format
  - Photographs
- Type
  - StillImage
- Date
  - Date original: 1932/1933
- Subject - Topic
- Location
  - Mitchell County (N.C.)
  - Appalachian Region, Southern
- Source institution
  - Western Carolina University
- Source Collection
  - General Negative Collection, Call Number N.94.11.49
- Identifier
  - NCA_morgan
- Repository
  - North Carolina Office of Archives and History

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