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BY BETTE KEVA
Julia Garrison keeps
the spirit—and the
artwork—of the Folly
Cove Designers alive.
There is so much Cape Ann history
associated with the Sarah Eliza-
beth Shop in Rockport that many
say the shop itself is a museum.
The tiny storefront business in the
Whistlestop Mall has roots going
back to the Folly Cove Designers—a
group composed almost entirely of
women who gathered in Virginia
Lee Burton Demetrios's Lanes-
ville home, beginning in 1938, to
cut designs into linoleum blocks,
which they then printed on paper
or fabric.
The group of 45 plied their pas-
sion after-hours for 20 years, gain-
ing national attention with articles
in Time and Life magazines and
selling their fabrics wholesale to
Lord & Taylor and F. Schumacher
& Co. But when their teacher and
Off the
Old Block
photographs by Leonard Greco
Julia Garrison
with Motif No. 1
in-depth
SHOP
