Describes, defends, and celebrates the schools and workshops that made the towels, place mats, coverlets, and baby blankets that decorated middle-class homes from the 1900s through the 1940s.
~Journal of Southern History
Alvic has provided a well-documented and comprehensive history of the Appalachian Craft Revival that began in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and continues to the present.
~Shuttle, Spindle & Dyepot
Recovers a lost history of Appalachian weavers. Alvic shows how the development of weaving centers and the revival of weaving became the foundation of the craft revival movement in the region.
~Helen Matthews Lewis
Alvic knows more about the revival of weaving in Southern Appalachia during the missionary era, as well as about the art of weaving, about looms, patterns, dyes, yarns, and the marketing of handwoven fabrics, than anyone I know. She has written a literate, informative, thoroughly researched book about the history of this movement.
~Loyal Jones, former director of the Appalachian Center at Berea College
A cornucopia of information about weaving, the crafts revival, benevolent work, and gender in Appalachia.... Scholars in Appalachian studies, women's studies, and folklore, along with weavers and other crafts persons will find this book's arsenal of data indispensable.
~Appalachian Journal
The first book to present the institutional history of weaving in Appalachia.... In addition to contributing an important historical resource, there are other reasons to recommend Weavers of the Southern Highlands. It is meticulously researched and well illustrated with one hundred period photographs. There are also maps, notes, and a comprehensive bibliography.
~Journal of Appalachian Studies
Alvic offers a detailed and in-depth look at the art, craft, history, and business of weaving traditions throughout the region.
~Goldenseal