Tapestry Through the Ages: Tapestry Methods
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An installment of the 1957 Shuttle-Craft Bulletin series "Tapestry Through the Ages" in which Harriet Tidball defines true tapestry and outlines the technical problems of learning it. She suggests a learning warp and weft (linen carpet warp, fine worsted), describes finger-wrapped weft butterflies and beating tools, and explains seven methods for handling color-area edges (low curves, slit, diagonal, dovetailed, multiple-dovetailed, interlocked, double interlocked). Diagrams and photographs of Guatemalan, Norwegian and Precolumbian examples illustrate the methods, and the final pages give charted border and motif designs on cross-section paper for beginners.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1957
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 9
- Weaving drafts
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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