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Northern Ohio Blanket Mill From the West Side (Cleveland) Sun: Northern Ohio Blanket Mill eyed for redevelopment By Roger A. Vozar July 03, 2009, 7:23AM This building, which originally housed the Northern Ohio Blanket Mill, could get new life as a combination of apartments and offices.A factory that was the nation’s largest maker of wool horse blankets and carriage robes could soon be redeveloped into apartments and offices. The Northern Ohio Blanket Mill, [...] Click here to continue reading. Thomas A. Gray Tom Gray of Old Salem, North Carolina is an heir of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company family fortune. A graduate of the Winterthur program in Early American Culture, Tom curated the corporate collection of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. He partnered with his mother, Anne Pepper Gray, to found the Old Salem Toy Museum. Gray has a long association with the Old Salem Inc. historic restoration, including vice president [...] Click here to continue reading. D. Cosley, Weaver Dennis Cosley was born June 20, 1816 near Martinsburg, Virginia. In 1831, he went to Fort Louden, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, where he learned spinning, dyeing and weaving. He remained in Pennsylvania for fifteen years. In 1837, he operated a mill in Bridgeport, Pennsylvania, which subsequently burned. To get the necessary funds to purchase his own mill, he conducted a school for four years and in 1844, bought one at Fayetteville, Pennsylvania. [...] Click here to continue reading. Mochaware A type of English earthenware pottery, mochaware, first made in the late eighteenth century, is a multi-colored utilitarian pottery that features a wet-look surface decorated with crawling worms, cats’ eyes, seal life, rolling waves, alternating bands of color, trees and cross-hatches. It was imported into America during the nineteenth century and later produced here. Its name derives from “mukha” stone, a strain of moss agate found in the Yemeni city of Mukha. The [...] Click here to continue reading. Intermontane Intermontane or “intermountain” refers to the region of the American West that lies within the natural geographic boundaries formed by the Rocky Mountains, the Sierra Nevada Mountains and the Cascade Mountains. These areas are in states considered to be mountain states, but are large areas that are substantially less hilly or mountainous, differentiating them from regions like the Rocky Mountains. The states included are Idaho, Utah and Nevada, along with parts of eastern [...] Click here to continue reading. Tse-Pe and Dora Johnny Tse-Pe Gonzales (born in 1940) married Dora Gachupin (born in 1939) in a marriage between two prominent pottery families, as Johnny’s mother was Rose Gonzales, a potter of the San Ildefonso Pueblo, while Dora’s mother, also a potter, was Candelaria Gachupin of the Zia Pueblo. Dora, who moved from the Zia Pueblo to the San Ildefonso Pueblo, has been exhibiting pottery since 1969 and is known for her traditional blackware [...] Click here to continue reading. Jacob Fisher “J. Fisher” is Jacob Fisher, a German who leased Thompson Harrington’s pottery in Lyons, New York in 1872. He married the daughter of John Burger, Sr., who operated a pottery in Rochester, New York where Fisher had worked since 1863. By 1878, Jacob Fisher took complete ownership of the pottery, turning it into the largest New York pottery by 1896. By 1902, Fisher retired and closed the pottery. Marianna Pineda (American 1925 to 1996) Marianna Pineda was a member of the National Academy of Design, in New York City, elected an Associate in 1982, and an Academician in 1990. She received awards, including a gold medal, from the National Academy in 1987 and 1988. She was similarly awarded gold medals and prizes in 1986, 1988 and 1991 by the National Sculpture Society, in New York City. Reference: Ask Art, courtesy of Skinner, [...] Click here to continue reading. Petticoats The precursor of the modern-day slip, petticoats were a woman’s flaring skirt-like garment, often ankle length and fastened at the waist with draw strings, worn with a gown or jacket for added warmth or to make the outer skirt fuller. Wool, cotton and linen were fabrics for daily use, with silk damask often used with the finest gowns. In earlier periods dresses and gowns were open-fronted robes with petticoats designed to fill the [...] Click here to continue reading. Paul Klee (Swiss, 1879 to 1940) Paul Klee was born near Bern, Switzerland in 1879 to a family of musicians. Klee himself was a gifted violinist. Although music was important to him throughout his life he moved to Germany to study art. He studied in Munich from 1898 to 1901 with Heinrich Knirr, then at the Kunstakademie under Franz von Stuck. Klee settled in Bern in 1902 and in 1906 exhibited a series of [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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