Handweaving News (February 1939): A Two Block Pattern Derived from an Old Swedish Table Cloth
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A short article from Handweaving News (February 1939) by Nellie Sargent Johnson on deriving a two-block pattern from an old Swedish red and white table cloth woven on an 8-harness twill threading. She converts the block key draft into a four-thread "3 and 1" threading that weaves Summer and Winter texture, or Russian embroidery weave, on a regular four-harness tie-up. The article gives threading units, treadle sequences (one and one, in pairs, single treadle), and a full 359-thread draft. It closes with a plan for glass curtains in mercerized cotton with picked-up squares and heavy weft accents.
- Type
- Periodical
- Date
- February 1939
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 3
- Weaving drafts
- on 3 pages: 1, 2, 3
- Archive notes
- Scanned from xerographic copy
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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