The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-22
NATIVE MOUNTAIN WOMEN
 AND SPINNING WHEELS
Something of the Old Industries As Revived In Mountain
 Coves-Coverlets and Rugs For the Country House
BY ANNIE kENDRIck WALKER.

Asheville, N. C., August H.-(Special.) J.
 The native women of these mountains
 have lent themselves to a revival of the
 old industries with such satisfactory re-
 suits as to make the story of the cottage
 industries most interesting.
 Industries that were fast disappearing
 have, through the efforts of a few women
 who knew something of the isolated, shut
 in lives of these mountain women, and
 been revived but have been put on a ba-
 sis whereby the native woman has be-
 come self-supporting.
 One or two women whom I have met here in these mountains have told me a , great deal of the cottage industries, and I have seen the work of the native women
 here at the arts and crafts.
 Of special interest are the old-fashioned
 coverlets, woven by these native women and who have their own patterns, many of them very decorative. The names of
 these patterns are supposed to be re- ! fection of the lives of the people fol
 more than a century.
 The St. Annes Robe and the Double
 Bowknot thought to be drafts brought into this section by the Scotch-Irish set tiers. Braddock's defeat is still commem- orated by stiff pattern in which the
 ranks of the British regulars are march ing to their fate.
 Other patterns are Presidents View, Polk and Dallas Whig Rose, Jefferson
 Davis and Abraham Lincoln's Destruc- ton.
 Miss Frances L. Goodrich, to whm is
 due much of the present revival, says that the last two patterns were given her by weaver whose family must have been in the minority in this section, which was so largely union in sentiment.
 Still other patterns are the Beauty of tune, Missouri Trouble, Olive Leaf, No
 ah's Wonder, Philadelphia Pavement,
 Pine Burr, Pine Knot, Rocky Mountain Cucumber, Big Works of Tennessee, Cup
 and Saucer, Winding Vine, Sea Shell, Sea Star, Stairsteps, Honeycomb, The Flow CT, and The Young Mans Fancy. As floor coverings the rugs made by these women are in great demand for 1 country houses, a heavier material being made, in which the yarn Is twisted and doubled.
 | Besides the rugs, an attempt has been made In raising flax, but the processes of watering breaking, scotching, hacking and spinning are so tedious by hand that less attention has been given to this in- dustry. 4 Another industry is the making of hats from the inner husk of the corn. Basket weaving and the making of handmade furniture has grown into large indus try, with a growing demand in the mar ket for Allanstand products.
 The prices paid these mountain women for their coverlets, while not common surate with their labors, especially in these days when handwork is paid for literally furnishes them with liveli-
 hood and makes the cottage industries financially successful, as the present re- vival In weaving has created a splendid
 market Orders are constantly being re- ceiyed at Allanstand
 Coverlet material, light weight for bed spreads, couch covers. hangings and table covers, wool and cotton and 37 inches wide is sold for $1.50 a yard. All-cotton
 material, 27 inches wide, is sold at $1 a yard Coverlet material, heavy weight and adapted for rugs, Is sold at $16O Il yard. Linsey, 26 inches wide, is sold by