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Give Life to Your Exhibit
Give Life to Your Exhibit
Elizabeth Roberts · Weaver, October-November 1939
Article · 2 pages
A short 1939 article in which weaving teacher Elizabeth Roberts argues for displaying handwoven textiles in room settings with period furniture rather than in glass cases. She describes her pupils' annual exhibit in a local Art Association gallery, with living room, dining room and bedroom groupings and upholstery and drapes woven in class. A separate gallery held coverlets woven over a century earlier, and she recommends the approach to weavers selling commercially. Photographs of the displays accompany the text.
Go Exploring with your Loom
Go Exploring with your Loom
Elizabeth Roberts · Weaver, October-November 1939
Article · 3 pages · weaving drafts
Elizabeth Roberts describes how she used a Bronson weave threading (one of Mary Atwater's eight-harness point or diamond drafts) to weave pictorial designs: a coat of arms with lions and lettering, a stage coach, and an evening bag. She explains how she planned the designs on graph paper, the treadling, the yarns and colors used, and how pattern wefts were dropped under the warp where not needed. The scan also includes the end of an article on variations of the Honeysuckle pattern and the end of one on the Woven Sheaf Stitch.

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