Weaver, Vol. 1, No. 1 (c. 1935)
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First issue of The Weaver, a 1930s American handweaving magazine. It opens with a two-part essay by Maria Steinhoff on designing and weaving smart fabrics, covering cost, mixing yarns, color and pattern. Other articles cover knotted pile rugs (Mary M. Atwater), the sixth annual Weaving Institute at Penland, draw-loom style pick-up weaving on a four-harness loom (Nellie Sargent Johnson), rug and drape projects in coarse materials using crackle and summer and winter (W. Clyde Dunbar), and a set of ten scarf patterns with warp colors and drafts.
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