The Alphabet of Weaving
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A short alphabetically organized primer for beginning handweavers, written as informal lessons from a teacher to a friend. It covers choosing and assembling a four-harness balanced loom, warping on a reel, calculating warp and yardage for linen towels, dressing the loom, and weaving tabby and plain twill. Later sections touch on reading drafts, cloth analysis, pattern weaving with a tabby (rose path, Mock Goblin), lace and leno, mending, novelty yarns, overshot, Persian and Rya knots, Roedlakan, soumak, tapestry, draperies, and exhibiting. Drafts appear on three pages: tabby and twill samplers, five basic draws, and a rose path.
- Type
- Monograph
- Date
- 1960
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 37
- Weaving drafts
- on 3 pages: 13, 19, 20
- Archive notes
- Published without copyright notice.
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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