Weaving Room, James A. Woolson Home Shop
Digital Commonwealth — Perkins School for the Blind

Weaving Room, James A. Woolson Home Shop

1914

CC0 — Public Domain
Digital Commonwealth — Perkins School for the Blind

Women who are blind weave at Swedish Looms in the Weaving Room, James A. Woolson Home Shop. The Woolson House was a recreational and work center for women who were blind, located at Harvard and Inman Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The women were employed predominantly in weaving and chair caning.

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