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Weaving Cloth and Marketing Nostalgia: Clinch Valley Blanket Mills, 1890-1950 Cedar Bluff, Virginia

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From Uncoverings 1994, Volume 15 of the Research Papers of the American Quilt Study Group

1994

By: Wilson, Kathleen Curtis

Kathleen Curtis Wilson was curator of textiles at the Historic Crab Orchard Museum, Tazewell, Virginia before becoming the 1994 scholar-in-residence at the Virginia Center for the Humanities and Public Policy in Charlottesville. She studied handweaving at The Cranbrook Schools in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and spent a decade running the Old Abingdon Weaver, Inc. textile mill where she produced textiles with antique looms and equip­ment. She lectures, writes, and curates textile exhibits.