Monograph · 45 pages · weaving drafts
An instruction manual for handweavers by Harriet C. Douglas of the Shuttle-Craft Guild, copyrighted 1949. It covers looms and equipment, yarn sizes and warp settings, estimating yardage, reading drafts and tie-ups, dressing the loom (chain and sectional warping), correcting errors, and weaving technique. It then teaches tabby, three-harness weaves, twills, overshot, crackle, summer and winter, Bronson and simple linen weaves, followed by instruction in developing drafts on paper, an index of drafts, a section of drafts, and technique analyses. Many pages carry line drawings and drafts.