The Folk Arts and Crafts of New England

Abby Aldrich Rockefeller artist baskets beauty became bird blue Boston boxes candles Captain carved carver cloth collection colonial colonists color Connecticut courtesy Essex Institute courtesy Shelburne Museum craft craftsmen crewel crewel embroidery decoration dolls eagle Elizabeth embroidered embroidery England fashion figureheads figures flowers girls glass gold green hand hooked rugs Indian itinerant jewelry John kind knitting known lace ladies linen lived loved Massachusetts motif Mystic Seaport Nantucket Nathaniel Hawthorne needlepoint needlework nineteenth century Old Sturbridge Village painted painter patterns peddler pewter Photo courtesy Essex Photo Richard Merrill pieces popular portrait pottery Puritan quilt rings Ruth Webb Salem samplers Samuel Chamberlain Samuel McIntire Shelburne Museum Shem Drowne ship silver silversmith skill stitches stone story symbol tavern thread tion town toys trade signs Vermont wampum ware weathervanes women wood wooden wool wrote yarn York young