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Practical Weaving Suggestions, Vol. 4-61 (1961): Design Your Own Plaids
Practical Weaving Suggestions, Vol. 4-61 (1961): Design Your Own Plaids
Periodical · 8 pages · weaving drafts
A Lily Mills Practical Weaving Suggestions booklet in which Muriel F. Barnes explains how to design a plaid, using a sample blanket woven in Lily Art. 110 weaving wool. She works out a 4-color, 86-end warp sequence, a 10-dent reed sett at 2 ends per dent, and a squared-paper design, then weaves nine color schemes with different weaves. Drafts are given for 2/2 twill, broken twill, tabby and basket, comb tabby with 1:3 twill, tabby with 2/2 twill, a small figure weave, and two crepe weaves. Color schemes are listed for each sample.

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