Cabin Craft Helen Hall
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- Date
- 1941 (description: "ca. 1941")
- Place
- Dalton, Whitfield County, Georgia
- Held by
- Georgia Archives
- Collection
- Vanishing Georgia (Digital Library of Georgia)
- Number
- Vanishing Georgia wtf225
- Size
- photograph
- Themes
- Machine tufting & Dalton, Tools & equipment
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Research notes
Photograph. DLG description: "Dalton, ca. 1941. Interior of needlepunch room for bedspreads at Cabin Craft Bedspread Company located on East Morris Street. Each worker is seated in front of a large embroidery hoop in which the bedspread fabric is placed. A pattern has already been stamped on the fabric. The worker uses an electric needlepunch gun threaded with colored yarn to punch or embroider the fabric. This process was sometimes referred to as 'electric embroidery.' Frederick R. Westcott and G. Lamar Westcott were involved in the founding of this company." Date given as 1941 in the record, "ca. 1941" in the description. Why it matters: Hand tools and the gun, open question "the earliest dated motorised or air tufting gun in production use" and "a dated photograph of a hand gun in use in Dalton": a factory room of women using electric hand-held needlepunch guns on hooped bedspreads, c. 1941, decades before the 1950s-60s photographs we have. Check the image to see the guns. Found: Digital Library of Georgia, search "tufted" / "Cabin Crafts", 2026-10-28.