Handicrafter, Vol. VI, No. 1, Part II
Part II of Volume VI, No. 1 of Handicrafter, a handweaving periodical. It opens with Mary M. Atwater's instructions for Finnweave, a double-plain cloth woven on four harnesses with a pattern stick, round stick and shed-stick, with diagrams and a bag pattern. Other articles cover Maria Steinhof on modern, experimental approaches to weaving, Dorothy Milne Rising on unusual color schemes and an embroidered buffet runner, and Marie Olsen on the Säterglåntan weaving school in Dalecarlia, Sweden, with a photographic section of rose-step, geese-eye, monk's belt and Leksand patterns. Lucy Morgan's Penland Institute article gives pillow-top drafts and treadling for pine tree and snowball double weave, Whig Rose, Spring Flowers and crackle weave. The issue ends with a Bernat yarn advertisement.