Manual of Helpful Hints for Handweavers
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A compilation of practical hints for handweavers by Osma Gallinger Tod, made up of separate illustrated leaflet pages. Topics include weaving posture, loom placement, adjustment and tie-up, threading, making a bobbin winder and warping board, winding bobbins, piecing wefts, and achieving good selvages with threading rules for several weave structures. It also covers mending broken warps, shuttle placement, combined wefts, parallel weaving, ways to take cloth off the loom, hem and fringe finishes, joining stitches, tassels, rope, knots, drawing down drafts, and adapting reed dentage.
- Type
- Monograph
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 33
- Weaving drafts
- on 6 pages: 5, 12, 13, 16, 31, 32
- Archive notes
- Reduced to 95% to fit on standard paper
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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