Weaving from Czechoslovakia
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First-person account by Roma Crow Walters of a summer 1938 weaving project at the International Institute (YWCA) in Youngstown, Ohio, where Slovak immigrant women wove traditional Czechoslovak patterns. She describes setting up a two-harness, two-treadle loom with long string heddles to the weaver's specifications, the white cotton ground with red and blue pattern thread, and the four-thread unit of the overshot-type patterns. The article explains the pattern-stick and pattern-board method used to pick up the patterns, and illustrates a luncheon set, sampler, shirt front and table cover.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- October 1938
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 3
- Weaving drafts
- on 1 page: 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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