Blanket Stories: Western Door, Salt Sacks, Three Sisters

A site-specific installation commissioned by the Rockwell Museum, Corning, New York

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Helen A. Sawyer
Canisteo, NY
Tags
Handmade, New york, Selected stories

Made by Cecelia (Markowicz) Van Gorder in 1920 from salt bags from the Tecumsen Salt Co. Silver Springs, NY. When times were tough flour sacks, feed sacks and salt sacks were used to such things as clothes and blankets.