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[Photograph of Ethel Partin Stiles making a tufted bedspread, Ringgold, Catoosa County, Georgia, 1934 May]
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- Date
- 1934 May
- Place
- Ringgold, Catoosa County, Georgia
- Held by
- Georgia Archives
- Collection
- Vanishing Georgia (Digital Library of Georgia)
- Number
- Vanishing Georgia cat008 (related: cat005, cat006, cat007)
- Size
- photograph
- Themes
- Machine tufting & Dalton, Hooked & handmade rugs
Cite this source
“[Photograph of Ethel Partin Stiles making a tufted bedspread, Ringgold, Catoosa County, Georgia, 1934 May],” 1934 May. Vanishing Georgia cat008 (related: cat005, cat006, cat007), Vanishing Georgia (Digital Library of Georgia), Georgia Archives. dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_vang_cat008.
Research notes
DLG description: "Ringgold, May 1934. Ethel Partin Stiles in the process of making a tufted bedspread. Here she is stitching the yarn by hand into the bedspread fabric. She follows the pattern, which had been previously rubbed onto the fabric." Three companion photographs show the earlier step: Ethel Partin Stiles (cat005, cat006) and Frances Stiles (cat007) "rubbing a pattern on bedspread fabric", Ringgold, 1934. Why it matters: Dalton bedspreads: a dated, step-by-step sequence of hand tufting at home in 1934, from transferring the pattern to stitching the yarn. Found: Digital Library of Georgia, search "tufted", 2026-10-28.