Frances Louisa Goodrich (September 15, 1856 – February 20, 1944) was an American weaver, writer, and archivist.

[1] She attended Yale School of Fine Arts and in 1890 she located to North Carolina where she was a volunteer teacher at College Hill.

In 1897 Goodrich established Allanstand Cottage Industries with the mission of providing a way for rural women to earn money and to keep the craft of Appalachian weaving alive.

[5] Weaving was particularly suitable as a cash craft for rural women as it could be completed as time allowed, with the weaver simply marking their stopping point with a pin.

[1] In 1900 Goodrich held the first exhibition of Allanstand crafts, and in 1908 she opened a store in the populated city of Asheville, North Carolina.