Background/ReferenceWorks

Cogswell, Robert. "Folk Arts and Oral History." Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 51, no. 2 (1985): 55-61.

------. "A Selected Bibliography of Tennessee Folk Arts." Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 50, no. 4 (1984): 142-45.

Goehring, Eleanor E. Tennessee Folk Culture: An Annotated Bibliography. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1982.

Schabel, Elizabeth Smith. "The Historical Significance of Patchwork Quilt Names as a Reflection of the Emerging Social Consciousness of the American Woman." Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 47, no. 1 (1981): 1-16.

Tennessee Stitches: Catalog to Accompany an Exhibit of 19th Century Williamson County Samplers. Franklin, Tenn.: Carter House, 1993.

Books and Articles

Alexander, Lawrence. "Basketmakers of Cannon County: An Overview." Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 52 (Winter 1986): 110-20.

Hedges, James S. "Mrs. Yardley's Quilt Patterns." Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 41, no. 4 (1975): 145-50.

Hodges, Sidney Cecil. "Handicrafts in Sevier County, Tennessee." Master's thesis, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1951.

Irwin, John Rice. A People and Their Quilts. Exton, Penn.: Schiffer Publishing Co., 1983.

Koltick, Lona Black. "Needlework Legacy." Franklin County Historical Review 19 (1988): 119-25.

Lohrenz, Mary. "Two Lives Intertwined on a Tennessee Plantation." Southern Quarterly 27 (Fall 1988): 73-93.
Lohrenz uses excerpts from the diary of Narcissa Erwin Black to illustrate the cooperative relationship between Narcissa and a slave, Chany Scot Black, in the production of textiles. Photographs of three quilts and a coverlet are also included.

Made in Tennessee: An Exhibition of Early Arts and Crafts. Nashville: Williams Printing Co., 1971.

McCrady, James Waring. "Franklin County Weaving." Franklin County Historical Review 14 (1983): 63-73.

Ramsey, Bets, and Merikay Waldvogel. The Quilts of Tennessee: Images of Domestic Life Prior to 1930. Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1986.

Richardson, Elizabeth F. "The Art of Patchwork." Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 16 (September 1950): 54-61.

Stamper, Anita Miller, and Mary Edna Lohrenz. "Manuscript Sources for 'Mississippi Homespun: Nineteenth-Century Textiles and the Women Who Made Them.'" Journal of Mississippi History 53 (August 1991): 185-217. This article provides more information about Narcissa L. Erwin Black, who is also a subject in Lohrenz's other article, cited above.

Weatherford, Sally E. "Profile of a Murfreesboro Quiltmaker and Her Craft." Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 44, no. 3 (1978): 108-114.

Wilson, Sadye Tune, and Doris Finch Kennedy. Of Coverlets: The Legacies, the Weavers. Nashville: Tunstede, 1983.

Manuscripts/SpecialCollections

"Appalachian Arts and Crafts" [online]. Archives of Appalachia, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City. Available from http://cass.etsu.edu/archives/arts.htm.

Black, Narcissa L. Papers. Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson.

Michael Lofaro (folklore) Class Papers, 1979-1984. Special Collections, Hoskins Library, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Online container list: http://www.lib.utk.edu/UTK-Online-Catalog/manuscripts/a1257

Stubblefield, Mary. Letter. Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Online manuscript inventory: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/s/Stubblefield,Mary