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The Great Depression brought a widespread revival of interest in traditional quilting patterns, contests, shows and sales proliferated. W.P.A. craft training projects spearheaded by Eleanor Roosevelt taught weaving appliquéing, block printing and quilt making to women in Appalachia, the Carolinas and the Midwest. The appliqués designed by Miss Loomis for the Milwaukee W.P.A. handicraft project no. 8601 recall more complicated versions of “Cherry Trees and Robins” stitched as early as the 1820s.
Julia Loomis Knudson [1913-1990], Milwaukee, Wisconsin.{1} purchased by Indianapolis Museum of Art in 1939.
{1} Julia Knudson, née Loomis, was a designer-foreman for the Works Progress Administration's Milwaukee Handicraft Project [Project #8601], Applique Unit, sponsored by Milwaukee County and Milwaukee State Teachers College.
