Frankie Welch designed this scarf specifically for her friend Betty Ford to give out as White House gifts. She incorporated many personal touches, including Ford’s favorite flowers, petunias; hues that matched her favorite turtleneck shirts—pink,…
Frankie Welch's first scarf design. Designed at the request of Virginia Rusk, wife of Secretary of State Dean Rusk, who asked Welch to design something “truly American” for the White House and State Department to use as gifts.
Frankie Welch often added a reserve where politicians or other prominent individuals could add their own signatures, as seen in the lower right of this scarf. People who bought this scarf could have it signed by whichever congressperson or…
Frankie Welch scarf commissioned by the Georgia Libraries Association. Among the numbers featured on the scarf are the Dewey Decimal and Library of Congress call numbers that designate books on Georgia (975.8 and F281).
Frankie Welch scarf made for members of the university’s Presidents Club. It is based on Greek revival architectural details from the ceiling of the UGA’s mid-nineteenth-century Presidents House.
Welch designed this scarf for a fundraiser for the Alumni Merit Award scholarships at the University of Virginia. It includes dogwood branches, a stylized Rotunda (used as the university’s logo), and a border that recalls the serpentine walls of…
The garden design of this scarf comes from the boxwood garden in the Founders’ Memorial Garden on UGA’s North Campus, behind the Garden Club of Georgia headquarters. The architectural details are from a house on Prince Avenue in Athens where the…