Double issue (Vol. 39, Nos. 1 & 2, 1955) of the Needle and Bobbin Club Bulletin. The main articles are Elizabeth Bayley Willis's account of aboriginal textiles of Formosa (Taiwan), based on a 1954 visit, and Phyllis Ackerman's study of mediaeval silks from the Caspian provinces of Iran. Willis covers tribal history, spinning, backstrap looms, ramie cloth, brocading, tobacco pouches, breastplates, chiefs' costumes, and cross-stitch, embroidery and appliqué among the southern tribes. Ackerman uses textile designs in the Andarz Nama manuscript (1090) and surviving silk twills to trace Caspian silk production and its links to European fragments. The issue ends with book notes (Irwin's Shawls, Bird's Paracas and Nazca volume, Trudel's Swiss linen embroideries), club notes and a list of officers.

Type

Periodical

Date

1955

Language

English

Pages

53