Handweaver's Instruction Manual
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An instruction manual for handweavers by Harriet C. Douglas of the Shuttle-Craft Guild, copyrighted 1949. It covers looms and equipment, yarn sizes and warp settings, estimating yardage, reading drafts and tie-ups, dressing the loom (chain and sectional warping), correcting errors, and weaving technique. It then teaches tabby, three-harness weaves, twills, overshot, crackle, summer and winter, Bronson and simple linen weaves, followed by instruction in developing drafts on paper, an index of drafts, a section of drafts, and technique analyses. Many pages carry line drawings and drafts.
- Type
- Monograph
- Date
- 1949
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 45
- Weaving drafts
- on 16 pages: 13, 14, 26, 27, 30, 31, 32, 33, 35, 37, 38, 39 and 4 more
- Archive notes
- Copyright expired
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