HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1983-09-28, Page 52Viola Taylor, an accomplished rug maker whose work
is on sale at the Van Egmond House, says she'd teach
anyone who wants to learn the old art of braiding rugs, Her
mother taught her, when she was a girl growing up on the
family farm in Tuckersmith. And she thinks it's important
that techniques of the old crafts get passed on to the
younger generation.
Mrs. Taylor's mother also taught her quilting and sewing
and an aunt showed her how to knit and crochet.
Circumstances though meant Mrs. Taylor had to put her
crafts on hold for years. She had two young daughters to
support on her own after her first husband died many years
ago.
With only a public school education, "I didn't go to high
school. I didn't have a chance to", her options looked
limited. But the family home was paid for and she had just
enough money to take a hairdressing course in London. She
then set up her own business in her Crombie St. house.
°Hairdressing worked out really well," she says, noting
there were only three hairdressers in town then. She ran her
business for 17 years and when she retired 10 years ago, she
and her second husband, Harold Taylor, got into crafts
again. Especially rugs.
NIMBLE HANDS
Mr. Taylor, who died two years ago, had had "stroke
after stroke" and it was hard for him to hold a hammer or
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