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[Rush Candle Making]

Description: Photograph of a boy learning how to spin wool at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Ruffin Hill sits next to the boy, showing him how to use the machine. The demonstration is part of the spinning and weaving school within the festival.
Date: [1980-07-31..1980-08-03]
Creator: Informedia
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Crafts Village]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: November 7, 1986, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Woman Making Doll]

Description: Photograph of Emma M. Oettinger, from San Antonio, making a doll in "Grandma's Workshop" at the second annual Texas Folklife Festival. The woman is sitting on a chair and working on what appears to be a sock monkey. A table with other craft work is visible behind her.
Date: [1973-09-07..1973-09-09]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

Curtain-Stretcher.

Description: Patent for a curtain stretcher where the parts can be disconnected and readily assembled to accommodate curtains of various types. It permits stretching without screwing curtains or disengaging them from the clamps. The patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 24, 1914
Creator: Hiegel, Eugene J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Unidentified Pottery Maker in Palestine]

Description: Photograph of a potter standing behind a table and holding up a piece of pottery for a group of unidentified spectators during a festival in Palestine, Texas. There are finished and unfinished pottery works on a second table in the foreground.
Date: 1970~
Creator: McReynolds, Oliver
Partner: Palestine Public Library

[Craft Show at the Museum for East Texas Culture]

Description: Photograph of an unidentified woman wearing a red apron, running a booth at a craft show held in the Museum for East Texas Culture in Palestine, Texas. The booth has several collections of dolls displayed and racks of doll clothing in the front. Two other women are standing in from the booth, looking at the items.
Date: 1970~
Creator: McReynolds, Oliver
Partner: Palestine Public Library

[Wooden Flowers]

Description: Color postcard of wood with a relief carving of flowers on top of it. The flowers are painted lavender and purple with green and brown leaves on the stem. Correspondence on the back is illegible. The card is addressed to Mrs. E. A. Dill, 509. N. Broadway, Okla City, Okla. It is postmarked Corsicana, Tex on May 7, 1908.
Date: unknown
Partner: Private Collection of Joe E. Haynes

[Putting on wheel spokes]

Description: Photograph of a man putting on the spokes for a wheel. The man stands on the right side of the image and works on a wheel to his left, he appears to be measuring the spoke closest to him. He works in a dark work shed where one light source illuminates the scene from the left, and a variety of tools and materials can be seen on the walls behind him.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Heat treating a wheel's rim]

Description: Photograph of a man heat treating a metal rim for a wheel. The man stands on the left side of the image and places the rim in a flame that burns on a pile of coal to his right, he pushes forward a lever to a machine behind him. The work shop he works in is messy, with some tools lying in the bottom right corner of the image and scrap materials on the ground behind the man.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Two men quenching a wheel, 2]

Description: Photograph of two men outside quenching a wheel they work on. They place the wheel into a small basin and steam billows from the wheel, neither of the men's faces are able to be seen. The man on the right holds a sledge hammer, and discarded materials are seen lying on the ground near them.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Women setting down fabric]

Description: Photograph of a group of four women setting down a large piece of fabric over a wooden frame. The women work outside in a backyard and are focused on lining up the edges of the fabric to the frame, and a young girl can be seen walking behind them on the right side of the image. In the background, mason jars are lined along the fence post and hills covered in trees can be seen.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Six women and a girl quilting]

Description: Photograph of six women and a young girl quilting outside in a backyard. Four of the women are working diligently on the quilt that sits on a large wooden frame, and the two women closest to the camera are having a conversation where the young girl stands between them. Beyond the fencing in the background of the image lies trees, large hills and an open sky.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Women showing off their quilts]

Description: Photograph of a group of women showing off quilts they made in a backyard. There are eight women total, three stand together on the left side of the image, four stand together on the right, and one sits in the grass in front of them, all having their own quilts they present. Beyond the fence of the yard, trees and hills can be seen in the background.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Two men quenching a wheel, 3]

Description: Photograph of two men outside quenching a wheel they work on. They place the wheel into a small basin and steam billows from the wheel, neither of the men's faces are able to be seen. The man on the right holds a sledge hammer, and discarded materials are seen lying on the ground near them.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Hammering nails in fabric to quilt]

Description: Photograph of a group of women outside preparing to quilt by hammering nails into fabric on a wooden frame. Four women stand around the frame and keep the fabric stretched out while another woman on the right hammers the nails, a young girl is seen in the center of the image watching the women work. In the background trees and hills can be seen past the fence line.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Quilting outside on a sunny day, 5]

Description: Photograph of four women quilting outside on a sunny day. The women work around a large table on the left side of the image, all wearing large hats to shield their faces from the sun. Finished quilts are seen hanging on a building on the right side of the image, and some disheveled on the ground.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Two women sketching on a quilt]

Description: Photograph of two older women using chalk to sketch designs on a quilt. The women work outside in a backyard on a table with the quilt laid out and are focused on their work. A pair of fabric shears and a box of straight pins sit to the right of their sketching, and trees and hills take up the background of the image.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Two men finishing a wheel]

Description: Photograph of two men finishing a wheel outside. The man on the far left is holding the wheel while another to his right hammers it, and they stand outside of a work shed. Finished wheels sit up in the background to the right and scrap pieces take up the left side of the image.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Steam billowing from a wheel]

Description: Photograph of a man working on a wheel with steam billowing from it. The man is bent over putting the wheel into what is presumably a small pool of water to cool the metal, his face is hidden from the steam. A few more wheels can be seen behind the steam, and leaves line the top of the image.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Men crafting wheels outside, 3]

Description: Photograph of a group of men outside of a work shed crafting wheels. A man works with a wheel on the left side of the image, and another two men working inside the shed in the background. There is a fire pit of old lumber with smoke going also on the left side of the image.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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