Cape Breton Coverlet Patterns
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A booklet of four-harness overshot coverlet drafts collected by Florence Mackley from older weavers on Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, and presented by the Little Loomhouse in Kentucky. The drafts, mostly Scottish in origin, cover chariot wheel, diamond-and-square, snowball, sunburst and bowknot patterns. Each draft page gives the donor, a threading, tie-up and treadling diagram or drawdown, warp and sett figures, and suggestions for place mats, skirts, stoles, baby shawls and drapery. Other pages explain the Scottish way of writing drafts, how to balance a draft and how to reverse the treadling, and the booklet ends with photographs of finished pieces and a cross-index.
- Type
- Monograph
- Date
- c. 1950
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 43
- Weaving drafts
- on 31 pages: 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 19 more
- Archive notes
- Copyright expired
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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