Jaspé
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Mary Meigs Atwater describes her experiments with jaspé, a tie-dyed warp or weft effect seen in ancient Peruvian and Guatemalan weaving. She explains stretching the weft on a frame (a spool-rack), wrapping and tying dots and dashes to resist the dye, then dyeing, unwrapping and weaving the weft. She recommends weft-dyeing for standard looms, mentions materials that worked well or poorly, and suggests using the jaspé in stripes and offsetting the weft slightly for a softer look. Illustrations show the wrapping method and a tying frame.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1957
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 3
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