This year, profits were limited without revenue from ticket sales, but Schwenkfelder Library and Heritage Center executive director Beth Twiss Houting said the show and lecture series were a success. The main annual fundraiser for the Schwenkfelder Library and Heritage Center, the show typically makes money from ticket sales, dealer fees, lecture fees and corporate sponsorship. Carol said it resembles the work of Mary Flower, whose needlework and sketch book are in the collection of Winterthur Museum. Old Saybrook, Conn., needlework dealers Stephen and Carol Huber were offering this needlework picture worked by LC in 1791 in Philadelphia. The show did not stop with simply expanding its roster of dealers it broadened the scope of the fair to include books and small pieces of Americana beyond the typical offerings of quilts, samplers, boxes, rugs, textiles and textile ephemera. About a dozen of the exhibitors had done the PDGM beforehand but the rest were new to the show, including its first-ever Canadian vendor, Timber River Farm of Timber River, New Brunswick. About 20 percent of the items featured – dealers could post up to 30 items – sold for a total of about $66,000.
As a result, the online version hosted 36 dealers and was visited by 5,300 people. An online version does away with spatial constrictions and geographic parameters. The Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center – the show’s traditional venue – can typically house about two dozen exhibitors and usually welcomes a few hundred visitors, most from within a short drive of Pennsburg.
The antique show and program series pivoted to a virtual event because of the pandemic and, in doing so, the event grew in ways it might not otherwise have done had it continued as another live show. That was the case June 4-6, when, for the eighth time in nine years, the Schwenkfelder Library and Heritage Center benefited from the Penn Dry Goods Market (PDGM). – Take a comparatively small show with a relatively narrow focus, add in a global pandemic and watch change happen. Review by Madelia Hickman Ring, Photos Courtesy Exhibitors On the left, a hand-woven and embroidered Kashmir shawl from India, on the right a Japanese stencil-resist indigo. A detail photo of two textiles with Martin Platt, Xanthus Antiques.
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