Looming Arts, Vol. 7, No. 1 (January-February 1972)
Issue of The Looming Arts, a bimonthly handweaving newsletter published by Mary Pendleton of Sedona, Arizona. It opens with a suggestion to use Christmas card colors as a guide to choosing yarn colors, followed by reader letters, studio news, and short reviews of craft booklets (Indian crafts, drop spindle spinning, natural dyeing, ojos de Dios). The projects are a fine-yarn check fabric in 2/20 wool (36 ends per inch, doubled threads, 16-shaft threading draft with tie-up and treadling), a knitted hat-scarf pattern, and a nine-shaft fabric inspired by Ghanaian Kente cloth that combines a twill-type stripe with a plain-weave stripe. A Sticky Problem column explains how to use a double warp beam to handle uneven take-up. The issue also carries a yarn sample offer (plied spun rayon) and advertisements for Pendleton looms and local businesses.