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Modern Treatments of Tapestry and Embroidery Weaves
Modern Treatments of Tapestry and Embroidery Weaves
Edith H. Snow · Handicrafter, August-September 1929
Article · 6 pages
Article by Edith Huntington Snow on small-loom tapestry weaving and the "laid in" embroidery weave, written as a follow-up to her June article on embroidery weaves. It explains how to weave a beginner's sampler, covering warp tension, handling the sheds, interlocking weft at vertical color joins versus leaving slits, building up shapes in pyramids, and pulling down pairs of warp threads for a Coptic-style rib. It compares tapestry with laid-in weaving, where pattern threads lie over a continuous background weft, and describes a swan design, a tapestry bag, and a modern abstract silk wall hanging woven on small four-harness looms with linen or silk warps. The last page carries advertisements and the start of an unrelated excerpt from Walter Crane on the bases of design.
Variations in Embroidery Weaves
Variations in Embroidery Weaves
Article · 4 pages
Article by Edith H. Snow surveying hand-loom embroidery weaves, which add pattern threads during weaving. It covers brocading, Scandinavian stick weaving (with a Peruvian bird motif in blue wool on linen), and the Greek method used on silk robes shown by Eva Palmer Sikelianos. Instructions describe threading and tie-up on a four-harness loom (1-2-3-4 threading, four pedals), how pattern threads are carried over and under warp threads, and how to chart designs on squared paper. It closes by introducing the laid-in pattern, to be treated in a later article.

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