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Weave pattern: Compass Work

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Weave pattern: Compass Work

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Weave pattern: Compass Work

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  • This series of weaving drafts illustrates a pattern known as Compass Work. To record a pattern, a weaver creates a draft and/or a drawdown. A draft looks much like a strip of musical notation; a drawdown is a visual grid that illustrates a single weaving block. Frances Louisa Goodrich (1856-1944) recorded weaving patterns she collected in and around Asheville, North Carolina. These drafts were given to Goodrich by Martha Owenby from Fairview, a community southwest of Asheville. The draft from Owenby lists the pattern name as Compass Work, but another notes that the pattern is “Identical with Zion Rose." A variation on the pattern is also known as The Ring. These varied drafts of Compass Work demonstrates Goodrich’s method of interpreting the drafts she collected. She pasted the originals into a notebook and created her own numerical version in a second notebook. She worked out the schematic pattern in visual form and painted a watercolor to illustrate the pattern block.
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Object’s are ‘parent’ level descriptions to ‘children’ items, (e.g. a book with pages).

  • This series of weaving drafts illustrates a pattern known as Compass Work. To record a pattern, a weaver creates a draft and/or a drawdown. A draft looks much like a strip of musical notation; a drawdown is a visual grid that illustrates a single weaving block. Frances Louisa Goodrich (1856-1944) recorded weaving patterns she collected in and around Asheville, North Carolina. These drafts were given to Goodrich by Martha Owenby from Fairview, a community southwest of Asheville. The draft from Owenby lists the pattern name as Compass Work, but another notes that the pattern is “Identical with Zion Rose." A variation on the pattern is also known as The Ring. These varied drafts of Compass Work demonstrates Goodrich’s method of interpreting the drafts she collected. She pasted the originals into a notebook and created her own numerical version in a second notebook. She worked out the schematic pattern in visual form and painted a watercolor to illustrate the pattern block.

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Craft Revival

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, mountain craftsmen formed the cornerstone of a revived interest in things handmade to create a movement known as the Craft Revival. During the Revival...

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