F. Creating Crafts

The Works Progress Administration | History Of SC Slide Collection

Episode 1

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The Works Progress Administration taught African-American and white women to make quilts through homemaker classes. Here, a group of South Carolina women work on quilting (sewing together the layers...

Mrs. T.C. Shores Shows Off Her Crazy "Quilt Creations" | History Of SC Slide Collection

Episode 2

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Mrs. T.C. Shores shows her crazy quilt "Creations" to an admiring visitor in 1973. Courtesy of the Darlington County Historical Commission.

African American Quilting Traditions | History Of SC Slide Collection

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Quilts made in the African-American tradition are more free in form and in the combinations of colors than the carefully laid out regular patterns of quilts made by women working in European American...

Crafting Baskets Out Of Split White Oak | History Of SC Slide Collection

Episode 4

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A traditional skill of the mountain and Piedmont areas is the crafting of baskets out of carefully split white oak. Here, Franklin Deloach shows the first stage in the making of a white oak basket...