“Stereograph, Perkins Institute for the Blind,” n.d. Courtesy of the Dot Experience at the American Printing House for the Blind, 1999.34.
Sarah Weston
Craft Archive Fellowship
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2026
Knot, Prick, Press examines the versatile craft practices developed by blind students and their teachers in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America at schools for the blind. This research focuses on tactile media created to enhance reading, writing, and learning, such as embossed and tactile books, knot-writing, sand maps, and papier-mâché models. These practices were primarily driven by disabled readers, writers, printmakers, and artisans.
Selected works
“Small interlining desk slate board,” ca. 1890 [1882–1914]. Courtesy of the Dot Experience at the American Printing House for the Blind, APH Collection, 1999.47.
“Hemisphere map of North and South America,” n.d. Courtesy of the Dot Experience at the American Printing House for the Blind, KSB Collection, 1992.307.
“Map of United States embossing plate,” [after 1899]. Courtesy of the Dot Experience at the American Printing House for the Blind, APH Collection, 2004.2.18.
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