This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to various handicrafts, including pottery, basket making, needlework, and more. It includes step-by-step instructions and simple diagrams, making it perfect for the novice. A fantastic addition to any collection and a must-have for handicraft enthusiasts. Contents include: "Pottery", "Baskets", "Baskets, continued", "Needlework and Rugs", "Needlework and Rugs, continued", "Wood-work Decorations", "Wood-work Decoration, continued", "Leather Work", "Leather work, Continued", "Laced Leather", "Laced leather Bags", "Laced Leather Button", et cetera. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with its original artwork and text.

This interdisciplinary Ph. D. course of study combines history with cultural geography and draws on multiple sources. Examined in this dissertation are those eastern Kentucky settlement and missionary schools that created fireside industry (craft) programs for their students and local residents. The thesis of this dissertation is that settlement and mission workers participated in cultural exchange and were cultural mediators when it came to craft programs. Their goal was to explain and interpret the larger world crafts marketplace. The primary purposes of the dissertation are to identify those settlements and missions that participated in reviving various mountain crafts; to add new information to the limited existing information about Appalachian mountain settlement and missionary schools' fireside industries; and to address whether or not the academic contributions these schools provided were beneficial to the local communities in which they were located--both from the standpoint of economics and culture. While men were very active in these endeavors, this work will concentrate primarily on the women who were involved in the craft programs. The secondary purposes of the dissertation are to provide the historical background of these schools and to outline the converging philosophies which influenced settlement workers and missionaries. These include movements such as industrialization, progressivism, arts and crafts, social settlements, social gospel, temperance, and women's clubs.