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Cabin Crafts workers using air-driven hand tufters (2010.003.0095c)

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Date: undated
Held by: Bandy Heritage Center for Northwest Georgia, Dalton State College
Collection: Thomas Deaton Collection (accession 2010.003)
Number: 2010.003.0095c
Themes: Machine tufting & Dalton, Tools & equipment

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“Cabin Crafts workers using air-driven hand tufters (2010.003.0095c),” undated. 2010.003.0095c, Thomas Deaton Collection (accession 2010.003), Bandy Heritage Center for Northwest Georgia, Dalton State College. bandyheritagecenter.pastperfectonline.com/photo/8AE0F8AF-52B9-4191-ACA6-201636278543.

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Digital photograph (image stored on compact disc 2010.003.0095). Catalogue description: "Cabin Crafts workers using air-driven hand tufters to stitch in patterns on bedspread materials secured within a round frame. The round frame allowed the workers to rotate the bedspread to more easily reproduce the desired pattern. The worker at left is copying the pattern displayed on the frame at her feet while the worker in front of her works a different pattern. Yarn cones are suspended above the workers and yarns are running from the cones to the air-driven hand tufters." Undated. Why it matters: Hand tools and the gun: explicitly "air-driven" hand tufters in bedspread production at Cabin Crafts; probably 1940s (compare c.1940 photo 2020.006.0029), but undated. Found: Bandy Heritage Center (PastPerfect), search "tufting gun", 2026-10-28.