Weaver, Vol. 4, No. 1 (January 1939)
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January 1939 issue of The Weaver, a quarterly published by Emile Bernat & Sons. It opens with Mary Atwater's article on reproducing a Bolivian warp-faced pick-up pattern weave on a six-harness loom, with threading and treadling directions. Other items cover a woven book cover-carrier, the Weaver's Guild of Boston exhibition (photos of coverlets, rugs, tapestry, tartans, stoles, linens and Finnweave), the Penland weaving institute, openwork shawls with drafts, wall hangings in summer and winter, a thread-sizes and sett chart from the National Conference of American Handweavers, a Dukagang work bag, and a Q&A on adding harnesses to a loom.
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