. In Cloudland, Mayview Park, Blowing Rock, North Carolina. A Penelope of the hills, Mrs. Finley Mast at her loom. Valle Crucis. OTORING along the Yonahlossee Road, past Linville and Newland to Banners Elk and ValleCrucis, it is customary to rest awhile at the home of Mrs. Finley Mast. Here in a quaint log loomhouse, which is over one hundred years old, Mrs. Mast, on primitive looms, weaves lovely drug-gets, beautiful coverlids and charming draperies. Taught to weave by her mother when a child,she first learned to make delightfully absorbent towels from flax grown in her fathers meadows.;- Twe
. In Cloudland, Mayview Park, Blowing Rock, North Carolina. A Penelope of the hills, Mrs. Finley Mast at her loom. Valle Crucis. OTORING along the Yonahlossee Road, past Linville and Newland to Banners Elk and ValleCrucis, it is customary to rest awhile at the home of Mrs. Finley Mast. Here in a quaint log loomhouse, which is over one hundred years old, Mrs. Mast, on primitive looms, weaves lovely drug-gets, beautiful coverlids and charming draperies. Taught to weave by her mother when a child,she first learned to make delightfully absorbent towels from flax grown in her fathers meadows.;- Twenty-five years ago bolts of handwoven cloth for toweling were on the counters of everycross-roads store and the children of the cabins on the mountainside wove most of the materialunder the direction of their thrifty mothers. Today these children grown to womanhood, theirangel-faced babies clinging to their skirts still spin and weave from drawings brought by theirforebears in old world chests from England, Ireland and Scotland. The coloring used is still__ ^ ^^-^^^^^^^ brewed from the variety of barks, leaves, flowers and
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