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Heritage Linens with Modern Ideas
Heritage Linens with Modern Ideas
Monograph · 32 pages · weaving drafts
A 1958 self-published pamphlet of work sheets for weaving linens, based on early American linen textiles from the author's collection and adapted for modern use. Each sheet gives a draft, tie-up, warp and weft plan, reed and sett, threading plan and weaving plan. The patterns cover broken twill, huck, Ms and Os, Bronson (including a 1817 Bronson draft reproduced), Bronson lace, overshot, summer and winter, Bronson point, novelty twill and double-faced twill. A foreword describes the author's collecting and gives advice on fine linen yarns, colors and place mat sizes.
A Study of the Relationship Between Borders and Patterns
A Study of the Relationship Between Borders and Patterns
Monograph · 25 pages · weaving drafts
A weaving study project by Helen Daniels Young on how borders relate to the main body of a pattern, using the four-block overshot pattern Sweet-Briar Beauty throughout. It covers standard border figures (twill variations, overshot tables, stars, roses, wheels), color planning for a series of mats and napkins, and complete drafts, profiles, warp and weft plans and threading plans for twill, scalloped, diamond, and star-and-circle borders. The study then transposes the pattern and borders to multi-harness weaves: 6-harness Summer and Winter (including crackle and bird's eye treadings), Bronson lace, and 16-harness double-faced twill for napkins and a tablecloth. The back page lists other monographs by the author.
Weaving on the Diagonal
Weaving on the Diagonal
Monograph · 10 pages · weaving drafts
A short pamphlet by Helen Daniels Young, written for novice weavers, explaining how to weave an overshot pattern "on the diagonal" by reading the design-spaces in the warp rather than following a written draft or treadling directions. It includes a practice project (a short warp with sett, threading plan and materials), step-by-step instructions for squaring blocks along the diagonal, and a weaving theory section covering drafts, tabby, pattern harness pairs, blocks, threads-in-common, half-tones, units, and 2-block (Swedish, "on opposites") overshot. The last page lists other Helen D. Young monographs and publications available from Two Cape Cod Weavers.

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