Hand Woven Materials for Clothing
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A 1936 article by Ruth Bolinger on planning, weaving, finishing and making up hand-woven fabrics for clothing. It covers yardage, warp waste, shrinkage allowances, flaxseed dressing for warps, washing and pressing woolens, and preventing raveling. It then describes several dress and coat fabrics woven from Bernat's fabri, Afghan, Lorneau and Glorine yarns, with sett, sleying, treadling and yardage given. Five four-shaft drafts appear on the last page, along with photographs of finished garments and fabrics.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- March 1936
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 4
- Weaving drafts
- on 1 page: 4
- Archive notes
- PDF provided by Judith Combs.
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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