Handweaving News (May 1939): Guatamalan Collection of Textiles
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A May 1939 Handweaving News article by Nellie Sargent Johnson describing a collection of Guatemalan textiles loaned by two Detroit teachers. It covers tie-dyed warp skirt cloths, brocaded head cloths, and blouse pieces with small bird and human figures woven in weft-float technique. Pages 2 and 3 provide graph-paper drawdowns of the border and figure patterns, plus a pattern-weave technique worked over three and under one warp thread, with photographs of the textiles.
- Type
- Periodical
- Date
- May 1939
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 3
- Weaving drafts
- on 2 pages: 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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