Handicrafts of the Southern Highlands. With an Account of the Rural Handicraft Movement in the United States [etc.]

Octavo. Pp.370 + [58]. With Suggestions for the Wider Use of Handicrafts in Adult Education and Recreation. Containing 58 illustrations from photographs taken for the Work by Doris Ullmann (there are actually over 100 photographs, eight in color, sometimes two to four to a page). The "Southern Highlands" include the Virginias, Georgia, Alabama, and parts of Maryland, Kentucky, Tennessee, and the Carolinas. About the history, the homes, the organizations, the schools of spinners, weavers, whittlers, quilters, potters, furniture makers, musicians and instrument makers, and more. Split to paper at front inner hinge; two light spots to blue cloth covers (gilt-titled) else fine. Dust jacket in two pieces, held together by mylar cover. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ON FIRST BLANK, AND SIGNED BY NINE OTHERS, IN GATLINBURG, TENNESSEE IN 1946. (Perhaps members of a crafts class at the Settlement School, now Arrowmont).