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Miniature Patterns for Hand Weaving
Miniature Patterns for Hand Weaving
Article · 6 pages · weaving drafts
Article from The Weaver (July 1936) presenting ten miniature pattern drafts for small woven articles, each with a threading draft with a simple twill border and several derived designs. The text gives advice on connecting border and pattern, tabby alternation to avoid blurring, and suggested warp-end counts and border widths for each pattern. Five pages of illustrations show the drawdowns, based on traditional patterns such as Rings and Chains, Pond Lily, Rosebuds, Cambridge Beauty, Single Snowball and Susan Ross.
Miniature Patterns for Hand Weaving
Miniature Patterns for Hand Weaving
Josephine E. Estes · Weaver, July-August 1940
Article · 6 pages · weaving drafts
Fourth article in Josephine E. Estes's series of miniature overshot-style threading patterns for hand weaving. It gives ten patterns (Quilt Squares, Tile, Lover's Knot, Flower of Flanders, Square and Compass, Small Single Snowball, Double Cones, Mariner's Pride, Magnolia Star, Chariot Wheel), each with thread counts and repeat directions for warps of 72 to 600 ends, plus suggestions for borders, colors and use. Five pages of drafts and drawdowns illustrate the patterns.
Miniature Patterns for Hand-Weaving
Miniature Patterns for Hand-Weaving
Article · 7 pages · weaving drafts
Part II of Josephine Estes's article on miniature overshot patterns for four-harness hand-weaving. It explains what makes a true miniature (a complete pattern reduced to fewer threads and shorter floats) and gives treadling tables for miniatures of Wreath Rose, Maltese Cross, Wheel of Fortune and the Cross (Cross of Tennessee), plus sampler borders. Thread counts and overshot lengths are compared with the originals, and a table of suggested linen and perle cotton warp, sley and weft sizes closes the article. The drafts use a direct tie-up on four treadles.
Original Miniature Patterns for Hand Weaving, Part I
Original Miniature Patterns for Hand Weaving, Part I
Monograph · 27 pages · weaving drafts
A booklet of 24 miniature overshot patterns for four-shaft hand weaving by Josephine E. Estes of the Weavers' Guild of Boston, distributed by Bare Cove Weavers in Hingham, Massachusetts. Each page gives one pattern with a threading repeat, a drawdown, and treadling in the form of harnesses down and number of times. Short notes cover balancing the design at the web edges, twill borders, color suggestions, and uses such as bookmarks, pincushions, runners and upholstery. Patterns include Bower of Roses, Chariot Wheel, Lovers' Knot, Pond Lily, Snowball, Star of Bethlehem and Wheel of Fortune.
Original Miniature Patterns for Hand Weaving, Part II
Original Miniature Patterns for Hand Weaving, Part II
Monograph · 27 pages · weaving drafts
Booklet of 24 miniature four-harness overshot patterns by Josephine E. Estes of the Weavers Guild of Boston, completing a set of forty-eight small-scale drafts begun in Part One. Most are reductions of old Colonial patterns, and some are new developments given new names. Each page gives a threading draft with repeat counts, a drawdown, and treadling sequences written as harnesses down and number of times, with border instructions. Short notes give historical background and suggested uses such as bookmarks, upholstery, linens and runners.
Pattern Drafting by Formula
Pattern Drafting by Formula
Article · 4 pages · weaving drafts
Josephine E. Estes explains four formulas (A-D) for developing several true all-over designs from a single four-harness overshot threading, so weavers need not rely on trial and error. Each formula is explained step by step using patterns from Atwater's Shuttle-craft Book, including Honeysuckle, Solomon's Delight and Morning Glory. A final section adapts Formulas A, B and C to four-block Summer and Winter patterns on six harnesses, using the Wheel and Star pattern. Illustrations 1-5 show the drafting steps and resulting drawdowns.
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