Two ladies hand tufting spreads. By World War I, women all over north Georgia were tufting bedspreads in their homes for local spread houses (run mostly by women), who paid from a nickel to $2.50 a spread, depending upon the complexity of the pattern.
Courtesy of Shaw Industries, Inc.
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