Handicrafts

This paper gives an overview of the newly created Southern Highlanders, Inc. and places its purpose and mission in context of the history and revival or traditional craft in the southern Appalachian region. The paper was written by Clementine Douglas, the first president of the Southern Highlanders, Inc., probably in 1936. The intent of the essay is unknown; possibly for publication in a periodical such as Mountain Life and Work Douglas describes how the Southern Highlanders operates as a cooperative and reports on recent sales in its Norris, Tennessee, and Rockefeller Center shops. Many western North Carolina craft artists sold products through the Southern Highlanders, Inc. from the mid-1930s through the early 1950s