The Weavers Draft Book and Clothiers Assistant
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A 1792 Baltimore weaver's draft book by John Hargrove, addressed to American weavers and cloth manufacturers. After a preface and brief instructions on reading the drafts, it presents about 52 numbered handwritten-style drafts for figured cottons and linens such as cords, dimities, fustians, velverets, satinets, thicksets, stockinets, birdseyes and diapers, with threading, tie-up and treadling. It closes with receipts for sizing cotton warps and for dyeing cotton, linen and wool in blue, green, madder red and black.
- Type
- Book
- Date
- 1792
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 27
- Weaving drafts
- on 19 pages: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 7 more
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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