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.style1 { margin: 9px; } Property from the Collection of Pebble Hill Foundation, Thomasville, Georgia
Elizabeth Ireland Poe, known as Pansy, was the granddaughter of the Cleveland industrialist Howard Melville Hanna, brother of Marc A. Hanna, the Ohio senator who guided William McKinley to the United States Presidency in 1897. Mr. Hanna purchased Pebble Hill Plantation in 1896. Located just south of Thomasville, Georgia, Mr. Hanna and the following two generations of Hannas [...] Click here to continue reading.
Northern Ohio Blanket Mill
From the West Side (Cleveland) Sun: Northern Ohio Blanket Mill eyed for redevelopment By Roger A. Vozar July 03, 2009, 7:23AM
This building, which originally housed the Northern Ohio Blanket Mill, could get new life as a combination of apartments and offices.A factory that was the nation’s largest maker of wool horse blankets and carriage robes could soon be redeveloped into apartments and offices.
The Northern Ohio Blanket Mill, [...] Click here to continue reading.
D. Cosley, Weaver
Dennis Cosley was born June 20, 1816 near Martinsburg, Virginia. In 1831, he went to Fort Louden, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, where he learned spinning, dyeing and weaving. He remained in Pennsylvania for fifteen years. In 1837, he operated a mill in Bridgeport, Pennsylvania, which subsequently burned. To get the necessary funds to purchase his own mill, he conducted a school for four years and in 1844, bought one at Fayetteville, Pennsylvania. [...] Click here to continue reading.
Petticoats
The precursor of the modern-day slip, petticoats were a woman’s flaring skirt-like garment, often ankle length and fastened at the waist with draw strings, worn with a gown or jacket for added warmth or to make the outer skirt fuller. Wool, cotton and linen were fabrics for daily use, with silk damask often used with the finest gowns. In earlier periods dresses and gowns were open-fronted robes with petticoats designed to fill the [...] Click here to continue reading.
Roycroft – New York Arts & Crafts Community
After visiting William Morris’s Kelmscott community of artisans, charismatic businessman and writer Elbert Hubbard (1856 to 1915) embarked on his own version in East Aurora, New York. His Roycroft community, America’s only Arts & Crafts campus, began in 1895 as a high quality leather bookbindery and publishing house. The name came from two 17th century London printers. The community’s large and prominently displayed mark, the orb [...] Click here to continue reading.
Brise Fan
A brise fan is one which consists of a set of sticks and guards with no pleated leaf such as a folding fan has, often being held together by only the rivet at the bottom and a ribbon or cord at the top. The sticks are generally the same length as the guards and can be decorated in a variety of techniques, such as carving, piercing, painting, etc. Feathers may also be [...] Click here to continue reading.
Boteh
A boteh is a somewhat kidney- or droplet-shaped figure used in Oriental rugs and textiles, from which the “paisley” motif is derived. Its origin has been a matter of speculation, probably Persia or India, and it is considered to represent both tangible items (such as a pear, a pinecone, a swaying tree, a palm or a leaf) to more mystical things like the “Flame of Zoroaster” or the “Tree of Life”.
Matthew Rattray (1796-1872)
Matthew Rattray apprenticed in his native Scotland before his immigration to the U.S. in 1818. He set up shop in Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana. He advertised weaving both carpets and coverlets. The 1850 census lists him as a weaver.
Stevengraphs
English inventor and weaver Thomas Stevens was among the most successful in adapting the jacquard loom to weaving silk. Based in the English weaving center of Coventry, he first introduced book markers around 1862 followed in 1879 with woven silk pictures and portraits.
By 1900 nearly 70 of these silk images were available and known as “Stevengraphs” (note, not “Stevensgraphs”). In America they were also advertised as “Texilographs” for a period of time. [...] Click here to continue reading.
Peter Uhl
Peter Uhl was born in Germany circa 1806, and after settling in Ohio, wove coverlets (some of which are undated) in Portage and Trumball Counties from 1838 to 1841. His corner blocks contained either his name and location or his name, location, client’s name and the date.
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