Handweaving News (August 1945): Importance of Texture in Handweaving
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A 1945 Handweaving News article in which Nellie Sargent Johnson argues that texture, built from the choice and size of threads and yarns, matters more to modern handweaving than traditional patterns. She gives advice on mixing odds and ends in warps and on unusual weft materials such as raffia, hat straw, cellophane, nylon and leather lacing. She then lists nine texture experiments woven by her Wayne University students, with warp and weft sequences for hats, bags and upholstery, and asks readers whether they would like a texture exhibit.
- Type
- Periodical
- Date
- August 1945
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 2
- 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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