May 1956 issue (portfolio edition) of the Shuttle Craft Guild Handweaver's Bulletin, devoted to dress and suit fabrics woven with linen. It gives directions for a black silk-and-linen suit fabric with a heavy/fine warp stripe, a light weight black linen fabric in plain weave, and an orlon-linen blend skirt fabric in Swedish Lace technique with metallic wefts. It also includes a review of a Japanese portfolio of forty handwoven cotton textiles, notes on Finnish rug books by Rauha Aarnio, news of changes in Lily Mills yarns, and the Threadbender newsletter. The portfolio edition has an attached sample card.