Warp & Weft, Vol. 9, No. 6 (June 1956)
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June 1956 issue of Warp and Weft, a monthly handweaving newsletter from Robin & Russ Handweavers of Santa Barbara, California. The main feature is a draft and instructions for a contemporary upholstery fabric woven as a broken twill on four shafts, using 10/2 Egyptian cotton and rayon boucle in the warp and boucle and space-dyed metallic in the weft, with a colour key, treadling, shuttle-handling tips, colour-fastness notes and a cost per yard. Other items are the editor's column, a Questions and Answers piece on beating synthetic yarns, a profile of weaver Elsie H. Gubser of Tulsa, a review of the Swedish books Vavstolen, and advertisements for yarns, looms and weaving equipment.
- Type
- Periodical
- Date
- June 1956
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 9
- Weaving drafts
- on 1 page: 4
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