Fall 1985 issue of The Weaver's Journal, a quarterly for textile craftspeople, with a focus on fibers, spinning and dyeing. Features include an equipment forum with interviews of loom manufacturers, articles on complex weaving and a loom built from medieval sources, card-woven fringe, a 19th-century Norwegian billedvev tapestry, and Churro sheep and the Navajo livestock reduction. Dyeing and color coverage includes planting a dye garden, the first part of a color theory series, silk dyeing with natural and fiber-reactive dyes, and silk preparation on Kumejima, Japan. Weaving content includes figures in boundweave with drafts and a needleweaving garment (scaffold weaving). The issue also has book reviews, product notes, conference reports, study and travel listings, classifieds and many supplier advertisements.

Type

Periodical

Date

Fall 1985

Language

English

Pages

92

Weaving drafts

on 5 pages: 22, 60, 61, 63, 90

Archive notes

By permission.