Hand-Woven Fabrics for Upholstering
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First-person account by Ruth Bolinger of restoring a set of 1860s black walnut furniture and covering it with her own handwoven upholstery fabric. She explains her yarn choices (Weaving Special warp, Homespun weft), sett, and the yardage calculations for warp and weft, then gives an eight-harness Swedish upholstery pattern with threading, tie-up and treadling. She also describes reusing a plain-weave wine-colored suit fabric for a rocker, weaving a narrow card-woven gimp, and working with the upholsterer.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- July 1939
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 3
- Weaving drafts
- on 1 page: 3
- 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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