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Card Weaving Technique
Card Weaving Technique
Clara M. Youse · Weaver, January-February 1941
Article · 5 pages
A beginner's instruction article on card (tablet) weaving by Clara M. Youse. It describes the cards, suitable warp and weft yarns, warping, and the method of turning the pack of cards, then gives seven progressive braid studies with tablet-by-tablet specification tables for direction and color. The studies produce plain, striped, horizontal band, checker, chevron, diagonal and wavy (river) patterns. A short book review of 'Weaving at the Little Loomhouse' follows the article.
Suggestions for Design
Suggestions for Design
Clara M. Youse · Weaver, July-August 1940
Article · 4 pages
A 1940 Weaver article by Clara M. Youse offering ready-made counted-grid motifs for hand-manipulated weft techniques on the loom. The text explains how to use the motifs from Plates 1 and 2 for luncheon sets, towels, curtains, bath mats and monograms, and gives formulas for the Woven Sheaf Stitch, Spanish stitch, French embroidery weave and Dukagang. Three plates of X-marked grid motifs and an alphabet follow, and the Dukagang formula includes a Rosengang threading.
Trees
Trees
Clara M. Youse · Weaver, July 1939
Article · 5 pages · weaving drafts
Article by Clara M. Youse in The Weaver (July 1939) on a tree-like pattern she copied from an early 18th-century John Speck pattern book in the Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia. She gives drafts for 6-harness summer and winter (rose fashion and as drawn in) and 4-harness overshot. She also gives a free-hand weaving version and a Swedish Dukagång version of the tree motif. The text covers warp and weft yarns, colors, reed setting, a 58-thread repeat, and instructions for a Dukagång pillow top on a table loom. Pages show drafts, a tree detail diagram, and photographs of woven samples.
Two Unusual Patterns
Two Unusual Patterns
Clara M. Youse · Weaver, July 1938
Article · 2 pages · weaving drafts
A short 1938 article by C. M. Youse presenting two old four-harness coverlet-style patterns, Mountain Honey Comb (dated 1877, from West Virginia) and Double Peach Seed (dated 1838). Each has a draft, suggested warp, tabby and pattern yarns, sett, and treadling sequences for table looms. The article includes a color suggestion for a plaid effect and instructions for a 36 x 18 inch table scarf.
The Woven Sheaf Stitch
The Woven Sheaf Stitch
Clara M. Youse · Weaver, October-November 1939
Article · 3 pages
Clara M. Youse describes adapting the embroidery 'sheaf stitch' from Mary B. Thomas's Dictionary of Embroidery Stitches to a modified Bronson weave, woven on two harnesses or a simple heddle-frame loom over plain tabby. She gives the block formula, advice on fitting a design to the warp, materials (Egyptian cotton, linen weft), and row-by-row directions for a bureau scarf. Ten block designs are illustrated, including Cambridge Beauty, Rosebuds, Young Lovers Knot, and eight-harness border and tree designs. The scan also includes the end of an article on weaving variations of the Honeysuckle pattern.
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