Damask on Four Harnesses
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A 1958 monograph by Robert Fredric Heartz explaining how to weave damask-type figured cloth on a four-harness loom using split (long-eye) heddles and a shed-rod pick-up technique. It opens with a history of damask, the draw loom, the Jacquard and the Paisley shawl, then gives loom preparation, tie-up, pick-up methods, designing on squared paper, yarns and color. Numbered hand-drawn plates show loom modifications, tie-ups, and design motifs, including a Whig Rose adaptation, Summer and Winter, and cat tracks. It ends with notes on Paisley shawl production and an ad for a correspondence course in advanced handweaving.
- Type
- Monograph
- Date
- 1958
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 47
- Weaving drafts
- on 2 pages: 27, 29
- Archive notes
- Copyright expired
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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