Double issue (Vol. 36, Nos. 1 & 2, 1952) of the Bulletin of the Needle and Bobbin Club. Phyllis Ackerman's "Some Shiraz Silks" attributes a group of Safavid satins and compound cloths to Shiraz and traces hidden void-patterns and concealed motifs in Persian silks back to Sasanian and Buvayhid examples, with many photographs, outline sketches and footnotes. R. J. Charleston's "An Eighteenth Century Weaver's Pattern-Book" describes Timothy Bent's 1778-era pattern book at Blaise Castle House Museum, with reproduced drafts for huckaback, diamond, satin and calomanco patterns, samples of figured linens and analyses of the pattern units. The issue ends with book notes (including a work on the Neuchâtel printed cottons and Marian Powys's Lace and Lace-making), club notes and a list of officers.

Type

Periodical

Date

1952

Language

English

Pages

49

Weaving drafts

on 11 pages: 27, 31, 34, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44