Historical Background of Double Woven Cloth
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An article by Nellie Sargent Johnson tracing the history of double woven cloth, from ancient Peruvian belt-loom fabrics through Byzantine, Sicilian, Italian and Persian silks and Swedish wall hangings (Finnvav) to American Colonial coverlets. She compares a hand-loom coverlet dated 1870 with a Jacquard coverlet and describes her own double woven silk piece. The last pages advise on designing patterns on cross-section paper for four-harness double weave, including warp counts per block, and point to her separate lesson on the method. No weaving drafts are given, only pattern charts and photographs of pieces.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- c. 1933
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 6
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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