› It all started with a simple barter. In the late 1930s, a young Gloucester woman, Aino Clarke, asked her friend, illustrator Virginia Lee Burton Demetrios if they could trade services: Clarke would teach Demetrios’s sons to play the violin in exchange for art lessons for herself. Soon, more aspiring artists came calling.
In the years that followed, these impromptu art classes transformed into the Folly Cove Designers, a thriving and renowned craft guild that sold its bold and colorful printed
