❈ About ❈

✾ Welcome to Old Time Way ✾

✾ Knife Making ✾

¤Chuck Patrick began making knives while living in the Alaskan Bush. He began studying knife forging at the John C. Campbell Folk School in 1982, where he was able to study with some of the greatest masters of the craft. The late Jim Rubley of Indiana and James Batson of Alabama, being two of his most influential.  Chuck  has assisted and co-taught sword making classes with Don Fogg. A popular  demonstrator at knife making and blacksmithing  symposiums all over the Southeast,  Chuck continues to teach and make knives, hand carving and working tools.¤  blacksmithing and knife making classes

✾Beadwork and Buckskin ✾

¤The leather for the garments, sheaths and bags is brain-tan leather.  It is true buckskin and indescribably soft.  Chuck Patrick started experimenting with this ancient art of hide tanning more than 30 years ago.  The skin is white tail deer usually.  Each hide can take three days or more to tan.  Look on future pages for more on the entire process.  He also makes oak tan leather.

Peggy studied beadwork at the John C. Campbell Folk School with the late John Neidenthal of Fort Lauderdale, FL in 1990. Her style of bead work is lazy stitch and applique on braintan leather. All beads in her work are glass seed beads.  She uses mainly old world colors. She continues to make fully beaded buckskin garments, bags, sheaths and more.  Peggy also does quillwork and uses only natural dyes for her colors.¤

✾Shoe Making✾

¤Peggy  started taking shoe making classes at the John C. Campbell Folk School in 1998,  The  first class was with Sharon Raymond of Simple Shoemaking Co. The shoes we made  were simple, fun and stylish. The late Glen Leasure of Snakefoot Shoes in Kentucky was her next teacher. He made leather hiking, and working boots and shoes. Cliff Pequit , whose shop was responsible for the beautiful boots in the popular movie “The Patriot,” taught her how to make pegged shoes on a last.  Sharon, and Cliff  continue to make shoes for other people, as well as teach shoemaking. ¤ Shoe Making Classes .

✾White Oak and Rivercane Baskets✾

¤Peggy made her first basket at the John C. Campbell Folk School in 1982.  Chuck’s step-father showed him how to make the white oak splits, like his own mother had taught him.  From this beginning they have both worked to increase their knowledge of this craft.  More recently in 1999, Peggy began to study river cane basketry with Emma Jackson Garrett of the Cherokee Nation.  The Patricks continue to make white oak and river cane baskets, and to teach in schools and events. ¤ Basket classes

✾Old Time Mountain Music✾

¤Chuck and Peggy are both well known local musicians. They have a life time of old time tunes and play a variety of instruments, including fiddle, banjo, and guitar. Peggy is a traditional singer and musician. Her father was the local square dance caller for her rural Appalachian hometown in the north Georgia mountains.  Chuck and Peggy have been playing music together since 1974. They have produced three recordings, Old Time Way, Still Old Time,( and with legendary Ross Brown ,left handed fiddler from Hiawassee Ga.) Ross Brown, Chuck and Peggy Patrick  Play Your Request.  Now you can buy a downloadable cd of “Still Old Time” and “Ross Brown, Chuck and Peggy Patrick Play Your Request”
on the Music page.¤

Chuck and Peggy Patrick have been listed in the Blue Ridge National Heritage  Area Traditional Artists and the National Basketry registry

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phone: (828)837-7627

✾Chuck Patrick knife making✾