Mountain Hands
Subtitle: A Portrait of Southern Appalachia
Contributors: Paul Efird (Photographer)
Edition: 1 Ed edition
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press; Univ Tennessee Press
Published: September 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9781572330900
Subjects: Handicraft; Folk & Outsider Art; Artisans; Crafts & Hobbies; Art & Art Instruction; Hobbies/Crafts; General; Customs & Traditions; Appalachian Region, Southern
Description: "Hazel Pendley creates heirloom-quality quilts. Ed Ripley wraps bits of fur and feathers into trout flies the size of gnats. Edna Hartong still makes an item that has all but disappeared from the American scene: lye soap.".

"All of these people, and many more like them, are Appalachians who work with their hands. Journalist Sam Venable and photographer Paul Efird spent four years combing the hills of Southern Appalachia to find these talented individuals and let them talk about their work. Mountain Hands is an intimate look at more than three dozen such craftspeople and their vocations."--BOOK JACKET.