» The South http://nothing-is-new.com Mon, 09 Apr 2012 12:43:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 BLACK MTN http://nothing-is-new.com/2011/12/20/black-mtn/ http://nothing-is-new.com/2011/12/20/black-mtn/#comments Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:06:38 +0000 KellyR http://nothing-is-new.com/?p=8280

Work hard, study hard, weave hard, frolic hard at Black Mountain College, Black Mountain, North Carolina. via North Carolina State Archives

 

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A vase, a jug, a candle vase. North Carolina pottery, C.C. Cole.
side note: Ever play the pottery app on the iPad? So fun!

via East Carolina University

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Bright, booming, sunshine colors of Florida’s Seminole Indians. Work made from 1960s-1990s. Totally dig the sun billed bonnet. I’m into bonnets.

via Peabody Museum

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Uh oh.
Portrait of Frances B. Scott is upside down.
via VCU

 

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| Documentary | of | Six | Cherokee | Artists |

This brochure, Documentary of Six Cherokee Artists, was produced to accompany a 1976 exhibition of honeysuckle baskets by Nancy Conseen, woodcarving and sculpture by Gilbert Crowe, rivercane basketry by Edmund Youndbird, pottery by Louise and John Henry Maney, jewelry by Richard Teesatuskie, and beadwork by Velma Lossiah.

via Craft Revival

 

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The Katherine Pettit Book of Vegetable Dyes, learn how here.
The handwoven, vegetable dyed throw is by Helen Wilmer Stone Viner, made in the 1930s. Katherine Pettit taught her how to dye at the Pine Mountain Settlement School in Kentucky.

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