A 1961 edited presentation by Nellie L. Galvin of a manuscript weaver's pattern book kept in southwestern Germany from 1784 to about 1810, begun by Christian Morath and passed to his apprentice Joseph Murllman. The scan reproduces the handwritten pages: tie-ups and threading drafts for 8 to 20 shafts (double weave and double twill, "straight" and "crooked" threadings), followed by many pages of hand-drawn drawdown pictures, including checks, plaids, tartan-style patterns and lace-like designs. The book also holds a few German-script notes about apprenticeship and wages. Galvin adds an introduction, English translations of the text pages, and her matching of drafts to pictures, noting that these matches are untested on the loom.

Type

Manuscript

Date

1961

Languages

German, English

Pages

119

Weaving drafts

on 82 pages: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16  and 70 more

Archive notes

Published without a copyright notice. Landscape mode. Some scanned images provided by Kris Bruland. WIFs of the patterns in this document are available at www.handweaving.net