Handweaving News (October 1942): Ancient Peruvian Warp Pattern Textiles
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A 1942 Handweaving News leaflet by Nellie Sargent Johnson on a warp-patterned technique found in ancient Peruvian (Incan) textiles from her own collection. It describes the narrow belt loom, a twill threading on four harnesses with alternating white and dark warp threads, and the lever order for plain background and for picking up pattern threads with pickup sticks. Photographs, side-view sketches of the shed, and a charted diagonal pattern design from an ancient belt are included, with a note about future leaflets on double weaving.
- Type
- Periodical
- Date
- October 1942
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 3
- Weaving drafts
- on 1 page: 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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