The Collection
The Craft Revival project's primary objective is to create a web-based digital history documenting the Craft Revival movement that occurred in western North Carolina from 1895 to1945. A main component of the project is the virtual collection of documents, photographs, oral histories, craft objects, and artifacts that tells the story of the Craft Revival. This virtual collection consists of digital surrogates that reside together in a database, maintained by Western Carolina University's Hunter Library.
Most of the original materials used to produce the digital surrogates for this virtual collection are housed in seven institutions that comprise the project's Heritage Partners:
- John C. Campbell Folk School (Brasstown, NC)
- Museum of the Cherokee (Cherokee, NC)
- Penland School of Crafts (Penland, NC)
- Qualla Arts & Crafts Mutual (Cherokee, NC)
- Southern Highland Craft Guild (Asheville, NC)
- WCU Hunter Library Special Collections (Cullowhee, NC)
- WCU Mountain Heritage Center (Cullowhee, NC)
Individual collection guides for each of the project's partner institutions give general information about each institution, general information about their collections, and specific information about the collections and series of materials from which materials were selected for the Craft Revival project's virtual collection.
A collection policy provides guidance for what materials are selected, digitized, and included in this virtual collection.