Mexican Indian Belts as Design Sources
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A short 1936 article in The Weaver in which Nellie Sargent Johnson relays Helen Allen's account of collecting woven belts in Mexico. It describes how village women weave them on a simple backstrap loom with sticks and strings, working patterns from memory, and how designs vary by region. A photograph page of belts and a charted page of figurative designs (a woman, animals, flowers, a tree motif) accompany the text, with suggestions for adapting the motifs to embroidery weaving, table linens, children's bibs, chair-back sets and draw-loom weaving.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- July 1936
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 2
- Weaving drafts
- on 1 page: 2
- 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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