Handweaving News (June 1939): Designing Two Block Patterns
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A June 1939 Handweaving News article by Nellie Sargent Johnson on designing two-block patterns for four-harness looms, continuing a discussion from August 1938. It gives key drafts and threading drafts in Colonial overshot, Summer and Winter, and Single M's and O's, with warp counts of 420 threads, border and center unit instructions, and treadling directions. Designs by her students (Louise MacArthur, Beatrice Carruthers, Lillian Cowley) are included, along with suggestions for linen and mercerized cotton yarns.
- Type
- Periodical
- Date
- June 1939
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 3
- Weaving drafts
- on 3 pages: 1, 2, 3
- Archive notes
- Scanned from xerographic copy
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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