Weaving at the Little Loomhouse
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A beginner's weaving manual from Lou Tate's Little Loomhouse in Louisville, Kentucky, built around small homemade table looms designed by Bob McKnight and Dr. S. W. Mather. It covers loom parts, making heddles, estimating and making warps (pegs in a doorway, warping bar, warping mill), winding on, tying to the cloth beam, shuttles, and many numbered photographs of texture samples and techniques such as laid-in work, knot weave, tapestry, doukagang, Spanish stitch and leno. Later sections extend to four-harness floor looms and early American drafts (M's and O's, overshot coverlet patterns such as Bachelors Button, Gentleman's Fancy, Double Bowknot, Chariot Wheel, Snail Trail and Cat Track), with an index.
- Type
- Monograph
- Date
- 1940
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 36
- Weaving drafts
- on 14 pages: 5, 14, 15, 16, 17, 23, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32 and 2 more
- Archive notes
- Copyright expired
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