Rabbit Goody Museum Consulting
 

Rabbit Goody  runs Thistle Hill Weavers, a textile mill producing historic reproductions. She serves as consultant for museums, historical societies and groups dealing with historic textiles. She has worked as Asst. Curator for Textiles at the Farmer’s Museum and the NY State Historical Assoc. and was Adjunct Professor at the Cooperstown Graduate Program.

Providing expertise in the identification and dating of non costume textiles in museum collections, and to further research the relationship between home textile production and the trade weaver in rural America.

 

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Rabbit at the opening of the Long Island Coverlet exhibit.
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Bed at Martin Van Buren's home in Kinderbrook, NY
"Before" and "After"  (click to see more examples)		 You may examine Rabbit Goody's Thistle Hill Weavers work at Harpers Ferry National Park, Harpers Ferry West Virginia; The Golden Ball Tavern, Weston MA, Rock Hall, Lawrence, NY, The Farmers' Museum, Cooperstown, NY, Martin Van Buren's home in Kinderhook, NY, Valley Forge National Historic Park and at Civil War re-enactments.

 

wovenhistory Long Island Coverlet exhibit curated by Rabbit Goody.

 

Lectures 1999: Presenter at the Dublin Seminar for New England Folklore, Textiles II, Right Under Foot , American Striped carpeting
Presenter at the Lakeview Museum, Peroria, IL for the Colonial Coverlet Guild of America exhibit Illinois Coverlets
Guest Lecturer for "And So To Sleep" the American Museum of Textile History
Lecturer for Textile Talks at the Center for Antique Textile Studies, Malden MA
Presenter at Restoration and Renovation 99 in Washington, DC

 

Professional experience: 1982 - 1989 The Farmers’ Museum and New York State Historical Association, Cooperstown, NY
        supervisor of domestic arts
       assistant curator for textiles
1975 - 1982 Self employed weaver and researcher in textile history
1973- 1975 Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic CT
researcher, interpreter of domestic arts

 

Publications: Sleeping Beauties, Heritage Magazine, NYSHA,1997-1998
Technology and Innovation in Long Island Coverlets, SPLIA, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
Will the real James Alexander Place stand up, The Clarion , MAFA, NY
America's love affair with striped carpeting. Early American Homes, March 1997

 

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