Article by Mary E. Black describing the handwoven church vestments and hangings made by Mrs. Douglas (Bessie) Murray and Mrs. John (Evelyn) Longard of Halifax, Nova Scotia, after an exhibition at St. Mary's University. It discusses design sources, color choice, yarn quality and the practical demands of ecclesiastical weaving. It then gives weaving notes with warp, weft, sley, threading and treadling for a Rose Window wall hanging (12-harness overshot variation), a crackle-weave heavy fabric, and chasubles for King's College Boys' School and the Church of the Holy Spirit. Lily mercerized perle, Trinklette and metallic yarns are specified throughout.

A 1959 instructional booklet by Mary E. Black, published by Lily Mills, on understanding and handweaving Scottish tartans. It explains the difference between a plaid and a tartan, the clan and district origins of setts, and the block system for threading and treadling setts on a 2/2 twill. Step-by-step projects (Menzies, Buchanan, MacLeod, Johnstone, MacPherson, Mackintosh, Dress Stewart) give materials, sleying, warp setts, block order and finished sizes for place mats, napkins, scarves, skirts and dress lengths in Lily cotton and wool yarns. Also covers beating to keep a 45-degree diagonal, selvedges, and finishing.

April 1958 Portfolio Edition of the Shuttle Craft Bulletin (Vol. XXXV, No. 4), published by the Shuttle Craft Guild in Bedford, Nova Scotia. It opens with Harriet Tidball's essay defending traditional weaving terminology (including her proposed name "Atwater Lace" for the Bronson weave), then gives an Atwater-based Summer and Winter recipe for church weaving. The main feature is Mary E. Black's beginner study "Experimenting is Fun", which works through seven experiments on one hybrid four-harness texture draft, varying weft threads, sett, and threading changes. It closes with Cliff Hotchkiss on weaving for the church (Summer and Winter altar hangings, reversible seasonal colors, 8-harness drafts) and the Loom-Side Market advertisements.

April 1959 Portfolio Edition of Shuttle Craft, the monthly bulletin of the Shuttle Craft Guild (Bedford, Nova Scotia). The issue centers on weaving with plant materials. Rita Bretscher describes using grasses, cattails and Indian grass as warp and weft, with warp planning, sleying, tied continuous wefts and drafts for screens and place mats. Other items: a spot-weave (warp pattern) wall hanging woven with pine needles by Lenora Broadhead Pratt; Mary E. Black on cere-cloths and other altar cloths and on a group project of kneeling-bench covers; church colors; a book review column by Boris Veren; and advertisements. It also has a Loom Language section and a note on the portfolio samples.

Portfolio edition of the Shuttle Craft Bulletin for August-September 1957, the first issue under new owners Mary E. Black and Joyce Chown, who took over the Guild from Harriet Tidball. The main feature is Tidball's article on classical Summer and Winter weave, covering threading units, profile drafts, tie-ups, the eight-shot treadling sequence, needlepoint and cross-stitch textures, and coverlet examples with drafts. Other items are Joyce Chown's article on color inspiration from nature, Mary Black's directions for using odds and ends of linen in overshot-threaded towels and place mats, Boris Veren's book reviews (Atwater's Recipe Book and Black's New Key to Weaving), a 1929 Atwater essay on beauty, and a section of loom and yarn supplier advertisements.

Combined August-September 1958 Portfolio Edition of Shuttle Craft, the Shuttle Craft Guild bulletin, with a linen theme. Harriet Tidball discusses a modern renaissance in linen textile design and interprets drafts from the Finnish book Pellavasta Kudottua, converting them to American draft conventions and profile drafts. Mary E. Black's "Weaving with Linen" covers linen fibre types, suitable weaves, and six experiments (honeycomb border, undulating twill, rosepath runner with wool, log cabin variants, and a Finnish-inspired pattern). The issue also has guild news, a linen glossary, a book column by Boris Veren, and supplier advertisements.

Combined August-September 1959 issue (Vol. XXXVI, No. 8-9) of the Shuttle Craft Guild's monthly bulletin, Portfolio edition with woven samples. It opens with the editors' letter and the start of Evelyn Longard's series on the profile draft, converting one profile draft into twill-block, overshot and patch-pattern (on opposites) samples. Mary E. Black's main article explores Mary Atwater's shadow weave with drafts and numbered experiments on 4, 6 and 8 shafts, using Atwater's and Tidball's drafts. The issue also gives Christmas project ideas (warp-pattern tree tablecloth, afghan, cards, woven trees, mittens, bed jacket, skirt, stoles), a reprinted Atwater girdle/belt draft, a Boris Veren book column on Hooper, Murphy and Gilroy, and advertisements.

The December 1957 Portfolio edition of Shuttle Craft, the monthly bulletin of the Shuttle Craft Guild, now run by Mary E. Black and Joyce Chown. Articles cover Harriet Tidball's prize-winning open-work room divider "Tracery" (Spanish eyelet, wrap stitch, Brooks bouquet), a chiné technique for Christmas tree greeting cards with warp painted on the loom, and bound weaving with humanistic figures (Grenadiers) on overshot diamond threadings in 4 and 5 shafts. Mary Black also reconstructs an old dimity counterpane weave from a coverlet clipping. Other items are a hemstitching tip, filing advice, Boris Veren's book reviews, back-bulletin and advertising pages, photographs of woven portfolio samples, and a 1957 index.

December 1958 Portfolio edition of Shuttle Craft, the monthly bulletin of the Shuttle Craft Guild (Bedford, Nova Scotia). It contains Part II of Joyce Chown's French Gobelin tapestry series on design, Mary Black's article on weaving as occupational therapy, Harriet Tidball's guide to buying a loom, and M. M. Atwater's piece on how a loom should be. It also has Learned at the Loom tips, Loom Language definitions, short Quickies (a teen-age tie and an inkle-woven dog harness), Boris Veren's book review of a biography of Coventry silk weaver Thomas Stevens, the 1958 annual index, and advertisements. No weaving drafts appear; the portfolio edition includes a woven Christmas card sample.

December 1959 Portfolio Edition of Shuttle Craft, the monthly bulletin of the Shuttle Craft Guild (Bedford, Nova Scotia), Volume XXXVI, No. 12. It includes a Christmas wall hanging in flossa and dukagang, the Church Windows sample, and Part III of Evelyn Longard's profile draft series comparing Spot Bronson and Lace Bronson with drafts. It also has plans for the Devereaux Mansion loom, a 16-harness table loom, instructions for adding a second warp beam to LeClerc looms, and Grace Duryea's article on many ways to weave one draft. A Loom Language glossary, the 1959 index, equipment notes and advertisements are included.

February 1958 Portfolio Edition of Shuttle Craft, the monthly bulletin of the Shuttle Craft Guild, issued from Bedford, Nova Scotia by Mary E. Black and Joyce Chown. It includes a step-by-step illustrated guide to the French "Swedish Knot" technique on a frame loom, an essay on variables in weaving, Boris Veren's book column, and Harriet Tidball's article on Summer and Winter sequence weaves for color textures, with drafts, profiles and treadlings. It also contains Mary Atwater's Peruvian leno, a Loom Language column, a tapestry history, and advertisements.

February 1959 Portfolio Edition of Shuttle Craft, the monthly bulletin of the Shuttle Craft Guild (Bedford, Nova Scotia), issued as a monograph on natural fibers. It surveys vegetable, animal and mineral fibers, with burning tests, a profile of ramie with overshot-striped dress fabric directions, a houndstooth linen sheath, a Japanese robe, luxury yarns such as cashmere, alpaca and llama, and a coir rug. It also has woolen shorts on rosepath, a cloth analysis of a Danish linen tablecloth with drafts and treadlings, a book review column by Boris Veren, and advertisements.

The February 1959 issue (Volume XXXVI, No. 2) of the Shuttle Craft Guild's monthly bulletin, Portfolio Edition, devoted to man-made fibers for handweavers. It covers burning tests for identifying fibers and weaving experiments with Fiberglas, Cuprama, Saran and aluminum strips, with warp and weft details, sett, and sample notes. Mary Black's experiment with a crackle draft in rayon, nylon and other yarns includes drafts and treadlings, and there is a cotton and rayon check for dresses and a lamp shade material record. The issue also has guild news and round robin letters, a book review of Black's tartan booklet, a book list and advertisements.

January 1958 Portfolio Edition of Shuttle Craft, the monthly bulletin of the Shuttle Craft Guild, issued from Nova Scotia. It features Harriet Tidball's article on four-block, four-harness Summer and Winter, which resolves a historical coverlet-draft puzzle using unit charts, profile drafts and drawdowns, and her short article on a jewel-tone skirt in a Honeycomb-variant Summer and Winter. Mary E. Black's fashion report covers luxury dress fabrics woven with overshot and metallic threads, and Joyce Chown's article covers Scandinavian bound weaving on rosepath threadings. The issue also has an editorial letter with plans for 1958, color-study advice, a Loom Language glossary, Boris Veren's book reviews, and advertisements.

Combined June-July 1958 issue (Vol. XXXV, No. 6-7) of the Shuttle Craft Guild's monthly bulletin, published in Bedford, Nova Scotia. It features Mary E. Black's article on early 19th-century coverlet drafts, with reproductions of handwritten drafts such as 'Compass Work and Orange Peal', 'Twelve Stars', 'The Snow Ball' and Mrs. Smith's 'Spider Web', along with notes on old draft notation and draw-downs. Joyce Chown's Part III on the Swedish Knot tapestry technique gives step-by-step weaving, finishing and blocking instructions. Other items include a Weaver to Weaver editorial on judging a Canadian weaving exhibition, a Tidball piece on Summer and Winter sequence weaves, Atwater's 'Summer Belts' with a gee-string pattern, card weaving and Indian braid, book reviews by Boris Veren, and advertisements.

A supplement to the Shuttle-Craft Bulletin (June-July 1958) reproducing scans of early 19th-century handwritten handweaving drafts. Page 1 is a composite overview reduced to 30%, and the following pages show larger versions of individual drafts, including threading, tie-up and treadling notation and drawdowns. Some pages carry handwritten captions or notes (e.g. 'Quilting', 'Chain Money', 'Begin', and a French annotation), and one page appears to be a ledger-style sheet with dates.

Combined June-July 1959 Portfolio Edition of the Shuttle Craft Bulletin, published by the Shuttle Craft Guild in Bedford, Nova Scotia. It includes Bessie Murray's notes on choosing and using color, an article on warp pattern weaving with drafts (point twill tie-ups, pick-up adaptation), a piece on twist dyeing, and Mary Black's article on natural dyeing with recipes for onion skin, beech bark, coreopsis and lambkill. Joyce Chown concludes her French Gobelin tapestry series with bobbin handling, building up and filling in areas, sewing slits, finishing and two-color shading, followed by Boris Veren's book reviews and advertisements. The portfolio edition included woven samples of vegetable-dyed yarns, color combinations and Nova Scotia Tartan.

March 1958 Portfolio Edition of the Shuttle-Craft Bulletin, issued as a monograph on handweaving for church use. It covers Fair Linens for the altar or communion table (Atwater-Bronson, Summer and Winter, damask and Brooks Bouquet approaches), a kneeling pad, altar vestments and dossal woven in silk and lurex, church paraments, copes, and a glossary of ecclesiastical terms. Contributions come from Harriet Tidball, Mary E. Black, Joyce Chown and guild members, with drafts, tie-ups, diagrams and photographs. It ends with book reviews by Boris Veren and advertisements.

March 1959 Portfolio Edition of Shuttle Craft, the monthly bulletin of the Shuttle Craft Guild (Bedford, Nova Scotia), devoted to ecclesiastical weaving. It includes Evelyn Longard's article on handwoven textiles for the synagogue (tallit, Torah covers, chupa, menorah and star designs), a short piece on the forms of the cross, and Mary E. Black and Joyce Chown's experiments with woven church book markers in crackle, dukagang, twill and summer and winter, using silk, cotton and gold guimpe. A section on fringes covers uncut loop fringe, woven fringe tape and rya knotted fringe, followed by a note on rayon versus silk and advertisements and guild announcements.

May 1958 Portfolio Edition of the Shuttle Craft Bulletin (Vol. XXXV, No. 5), published by the Shuttle Craft Guild in Bedford, Nova Scotia. It opens with an editorial on the cover photograph, then Mary Black's "Quickies": directions for easy summer projects in cotton on a simple twill threading (beach towels, beach mat, baby play mat, clothes pin apron, barbecue towels, garden apron and garden jacket). Harriet Tidball's article covers Summer and Winter pick-up and inlay for free designing, illustrated with photographs of woven panels and a tie-up diagram. Joyce Chown's Part II on Swedish Knot tapestry gives step-by-step directions for inking the design onto the warp and knotting the weft. The issue ends with book reviews, a "Learned at the Loom" tip on metallic threads, and advertisements.

Portfolio edition of the May 1959 Shuttle Craft Bulletin (Vol. XXXVI, no. 5) from Bedford, Nova Scotia. It includes Part III of Joyce Chown's series on French Gobelin tapestry (bobbins, winding, weaving technique, slits, borders), Mary E. Black's article on silk (history, sericulture, yarns, weaving suggestions, glossary), and short pieces on Tensolite and loom language. Evelyn Longard's place mats for china patterns and Joyce Chown's additional place mats give summer and winter drafts and weaving plans. The issue closes with Party Strips, a market page and a membership notice.

November 1957 Portfolio Edition of Shuttle Craft, the monthly bulletin of the Shuttle Craft Guild (Vol. XXXIV, No. 11), now run from Bedford, Nova Scotia. It contains Mary Black's study of old pioneer druggets (warp-face rugs), Harriet Tidball's Summer and Winter sequence weaves for contemporary upholstery with thirteen drafted textiles (NF-1 to NF-13), Joyce Chown's two-color plain weave gamp for suiting and coat fabrics, and a cellular blanket weave article with drafts for two samples. It also has Boris Veren's book reviews, the Loom-Side Market advertisements and a Christmas gift list of drafting supplies, plus a Loom Language note on the word 'curtain'.

November 1958 portfolio issue of the Shuttle Craft Bulletin (Vol. XXXV, No. 11), published by the Shuttle Craft Guild in Bedford, Nova Scotia. It features Minnie Simpson's "Woven Words" method of inlaying letters in alternate tabby rows, two Christmas panels (Santa Claus in dukagang and a Full of Beans Santa) with drafts and rosepath trees, and Joyce Chown's first part on French Gobelin tapestry, covering making a practice loom and heddles. The issue closes a Summer and Winter series with Harriet Tidball's and Crescent Deru's shag, pile and fringe weaves, corduroy pile rugs, and a modern Summer and Winter design by Mrs. Arnold. It also has Boris Veren's book review of Lucy Morgan's Gift from the Hills, weaving standards from the Society of Connecticut Craftsmen, and advertisements.

Portfolio edition of the Shuttle Craft Bulletin for November 1959, published by Mary E. Black and Joyce Chown in Bedford, Nova Scotia. It contains Joyce Chown's instructions for the Swedish H. V. technique (an inlay/tapestry-like weave on 50-50 tabby), Evelyn Longard's Christmas card insert with a cellophane tree, and Part II of her Variations on a Profile Draft, which gives crackle and summer and winter samples on a four-block profile. Mary Black begins an Aprons International series with three apron designs (including candy stripe and spot Bronson). Other items are a Finnish/Mexican double weave turkey cover by Elizabeth Wittenberg, a Loom Language glossary, a book review column by Boris Veren and advertisements.

October 1957 Portfolio Edition of Shuttle Craft, the monthly bulletin of the Shuttle Craft Guild, in its first issues under Mary E. Black and Joyce Chown. It includes a fashion report on weaving winter wools and tweeds, with sett and threading directions for Black Watch and Robertson tartans, overshot and Swedish lace dress fabrics, and a Barleycorn wool-and-metallic fabric for evening wear. Harriet Tidball's article covers polychrome Summer and Winter, with profile drafts (twill, point twill, interrupted twill and rose alternation orders of blocks) and polychrome drafts including Christmas tree and angel motifs and designs by Mary Atwater. Also includes an editorial, a note on Tidball's Handloom Weaves, Boris Veren's book reviews, and advertisements and supplier listings.

October 1958 Portfolio Edition of Shuttle Craft, the monthly bulletin of the Shuttle Craft Guild (Bedford, Nova Scotia), devoted largely to Christmas weaving. Harriet Tidball presents Dr. William G. Bateman's eight-harness sample designs, related to three- and four-tie Summer and Winter, with profile drafts, tie-ups, treadlings and yarn details. The "What Can I Weave for Christmas" section covers Christmas aprons with flossa or dukagang tree borders, projects for young weavers (bean bag, catnip ball, sachets, scarf), striped skirt fabric with Lily yarns, bookmarks, tree ornaments, and three knee rugs in Tranquillity Studio homespun wool, including a 6-harness draft. The issue also has Boris Veren's book reviews, including the Swedish Monsterblad portfolios and a book of contemporary Swedish design, and advertisements.

October 1959 Portfolio Edition of the Shuttle Craft Guild's monthly bulletin (Vol. XXXVI, No. 10), published in Bedford, Nova Scotia, with woven samples mounted in the issue. It contains an editors' letter about who weaves the portfolio samples, a fall fashion report with skirt projects (honeycomb overshot, canvas weave, curl-yarn plain weave, double-weave plaid), a silk scarf idea, and a two-harness headscarf. Part II of Mary Black's series on the shadow weave reprints Mrs. Tidball's 1953 article and presents Atwater's samples as Experiments #7-9, with 4- and 8-harness drafts and Mrs. Stanwood's linen sample. It ends with Boris Veren's book reviews, including Twenty-One Years of Weaving Patterns from the Jubilee Guilds of Newfoundland, plus subscription offers and advertisements.

Mary E. Black gives a step-by-step method for working out an unfamiliar weaving draft that arrives with no tie-up, treadling, or draw-down. Using a Swedish four-block draft marked V. bord and H. bord as the example, she transposes the draft, names the blocks, makes a profile draw-down, and derives the tie-up and treadling. She identifies the structure as overshot, weaves samples in cotton, rayon boucle and linen, corrects the unbalanced blocks, and recognizes the result as a Swedish daldrall variation. The article includes drafts, draw-downs, and photographs of the samples.