The craft presentations at the 1968 Festival featured more than 60 persons demonstrating basket-making, woodworking, wood carving, pottery, blacksmithing and tinsmithing, doll-making, and foodways. A special focus was on textile traditions, with large contingents demonstrating diverse approaches to processing cotton and wool, needlework, and quilt-making.
Crafts
1968 Festival of American Folklife, Crafts program (FAF1968_0114).
Courtesy of the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.
1968 Festival of American Folklife, Crafts program (FAF1968_0245).
Courtesy of the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.
1968 Festival of American Folklife, Crafts program (FAF1968_0351).
Courtesy of the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.
1968 Festival of American Folklife, Crafts program (FAF1968_0367).
Courtesy of the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.
1968 Festival of American Folklife, Crafts program (FAF1968_0395).
Courtesy of the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.
1968 Festival of American Folklife, Crafts program (FAF1968_0459).
Courtesy of the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.
