Small Wall Hangings Adapted from Guatemalan Textiles
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Article by Nellie Sargent Johnson describing Guatemalan textiles brought back by two Detroit teachers: a tie-dyed cotton skirt, a brocaded head cloth, and brocaded blouse cloths with stylized women, birds and animals. It explains how the brocaded figures are charted, with one square per warp thread, and how they can be woven on a simple two-harness heddle loom. It then describes small wall hangings woven by student Nell Byster Keyser, adapting the Guatemalan figures in plain weave with brocaded and laid-in motifs in Shetland and tapestry yarns.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- October-November 1940
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 3
- Weaving drafts
- on 2 pages: 1, 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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