Designing Four Harness Loom Patterns
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Nellie Sargent Johnson explains a method for designing four-harness threading drafts by combining and varying three basic threadings: twill, herringbone (reversed twill) and rose-path. She covers balancing a draft around center threads, avoiding doubled threads on one harness when repeating, and building pattern blocks of different sizes, with odd-numbered blocks at the reversal point. Draft examples designed by her students Evelyn Lauer and Marie Copland (Hearts and Flowers, Snow-Flake, Electric Light/Copland's Fancy) are given with threading, lever/treadling directions for a Structo loom, and suggested uses and yarns.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- July 1938
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 4
- Weaving drafts
- on 4 pages: 1, 2, 3, 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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