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Boutonné Rugs: A Tufted Technique
Boutonné Rugs: A Tufted Technique
Monograph · 4 pages · weaving drafts
A short instruction leaflet by Osma Gallinger Tod on making tufted (boutonné) rugs and bath mats with a plain-weave tabby ground and raised loop tufts. It covers designing on check paper, materials and warp settings (8/4 carpet warp, wool or cotton rug yarn), and weaving the loop rows with a pick-up stick on a 2- or 4-harness loom or a simple frame. Step-by-step directions explain the two sheds, the tabby sequence between loop rows, and finishing with fringe or hem. Diagrams show rug designs, check-paper grids and a warp/shed diagram.
Chart of Thread Sizes and Textures and Their Proper Setting
Chart of Thread Sizes and Textures and Their Proper Setting
Monograph · 10 pages
A tabular chart giving recommended warp yarns, yardage per pound, sley (reed) settings, tabby weft and suitable pattern wefts and threadings for hand-woven articles. It covers dress fabrics (wool, linen, cotton), belts, handbags, bed coverings, blankets, upholstery, draperies, rugs and table linens. Facing pages list the recommended weave structures for each use, and a closing note explains how to read the chart and why settings vary with yarn twist.
Flossa or Pile Rugs, Folio 13
Flossa or Pile Rugs, Folio 13
Monograph · 5 pages
Folio 13 from the Osma Gallinger Tod Studio gives instructions for weaving Flossa (Scandinavian knotted pile) rugs. It compares Flossa with Rya and Half-flossa, and covers materials, planning designs on square-ruled paper, and the step-by-step knotting technique with a gauge bar. The steps include binding rows with tabby, cutting the pile, weaving wool triangles into the selvage, and clipping the surface, with substitute equipment suggested. The final page shows four Flossa rug designs, and diagrams illustrate the knotting steps.
Lace Weaves, Folio 6
Lace Weaves, Folio 6
Monograph · 12 pages · weaving drafts
A folio of hand-woven lace techniques by Osma Gallinger Tod, worked on a plain-weave (tabby) background on 2- and 4-harness looms. It gives warp plans, threading and weaving directions for Mexican lace stitch (single and double), leno with half-heddles (doupes), Danish medallion stitch, European buratto mesh, simple laid-in and openwork texture rows, nub-type Brooks Bouquet effects, and Spanish openwork doilies. It also includes charts of lace initials, cross-stitch-style motifs and Christmas card designs.
[Leaflets on Weaving]
[Leaflets on Weaving]
Osma Gallinger Tod · c. 1936-1950
Other · 250 pages · weaving drafts
A large compilation of weaving leaflets issued by Osma Gallinger Tod (Creative Crafts, Guernsey, Pa.) with The Shuttle Service and Craft Creation. Each leaflet gives a project or pattern with warp plans, threading drafts, tie-ups and treadling directions, mostly for 2- and 4-harness looms with some 6- and 8-harness items. Topics include rag rugs, bags, plaids and stripes, curtains, doilies, towels, blankets, upholstery, laid-in finger-weaving, lace weaves, Bronson, overshot, summer and winter, crackle, twill and M's and O's. Many patterns are credited to contributors such as Bertha Hayes, Helen Louise Allen and Josephine Estes, and several derive from National Weaving Conference patterns.
Manual of Helpful Hints for Handweavers
Manual of Helpful Hints for Handweavers
Monograph · 33 pages · weaving drafts
A compilation of practical hints for handweavers by Osma Gallinger Tod, made up of separate illustrated leaflet pages. Topics include weaving posture, loom placement, adjustment and tie-up, threading, making a bobbin winder and warping board, winding bobbins, piecing wefts, and achieving good selvages with threading rules for several weave structures. It also covers mending broken warps, shuttle placement, combined wefts, parallel weaving, ways to take cloth off the loom, hem and fringe finishes, joining stitches, tassels, rope, knots, drawing down drafts, and adapting reed dentage.
Navajo Rug Folio, Folio 14
Navajo Rug Folio, Folio 14
Monograph · 4 pages
Folio 14 of a Navajo rug series issued by the Osma Gallinger Tod Studio, covering how Navajo rugs and blankets are woven and how the tapestry technique can be imitated on modern looms. It gives row-by-row instructions for interlocking weft threads and for weaving diagonal lines (40° and 52° triangles), with diagrams. It also includes a plate of nine Navajo rug and blanket designs with notes on colors and uses, and a short introduction on Navajo materials, dyes, looms and the two types of Navajo weaving.
Practical Weaving Suggestions, Vol. 1-68 (1968): Dresses, Shifts and Pull-Overs
Practical Weaving Suggestions, Vol. 1-68 (1968): Dresses, Shifts and Pull-Overs
Periodical · 6 pages · weaving drafts
A Lily Mills weaving bulletin by Osma Gallinger Tod, inspired by a visit to Greece, giving directions for handwoven shifts, a bag and pull-overs. It covers a burnt orange shift with a black and white floss Diamond border, a chartreuse shift and bag with a laid-in Greek Key border, a black and white shaded plain-weave pull-over, a red pull-over with hit-and-miss borders, and a wool pull-over in brown, blue and black. Each project lists warp, weft, sett and a row-by-row weaving plan, mostly on a 20/2 cotton warp with the same short overshot Diamond threading.
Practical Weaving Suggestions, Vol. IV, No. 1: The Profile System of Writing Drafts
Practical Weaving Suggestions, Vol. IV, No. 1: The Profile System of Writing Drafts
Periodical · 12 pages · weaving drafts
An issue of Lily Mills' Practical Weaving Suggestions explaining the profile system of writing weaving drafts, in which each block of a pattern is reduced to a single unit on a row of graph paper. It shows how to draw down a pattern on paper from the profile and how one 2-block design can be woven in five techniques: patch pattern overshot, summer and winter, Bronson lace weave, M's and O's, and 8-harness damask. Each technique has unit threadings, weaving plans, texture notes, and Lily yarn suggestions with sett. The last page is a Lily yarn advertisement.
Practical Weaving Suggestions, Vol. XXVIII: Planned Weaving for the Handweaver's Wardrobe
Practical Weaving Suggestions, Vol. XXVIII: Planned Weaving for the Handweaver's Wardrobe
Periodical · 12 pages · weaving drafts
A reprinted issue of Lily Mills' Practical Weaving Suggestions bulletin explaining the profile system of writing weaving drafts, devised by Helen L. Allen and presented with Osma Gallinger. It contrasts long drafts written with harness numbers against short profiles in which blocks are reduced to units on design rows, and shows how to draw down a pattern on paper and rearrange units to refine a design. The second half applies one 2-row profile to five two-block techniques: patch (on opposite) pattern, Summer and Winter, Bronson lace weave, M's and O's, and 8-harness damask. Each technique gets unit threadings, a weaving plan, texture notes, and Lily yarn suggestions for coarse and fine versions. The last page advertises Lily hand weaving yarns.
Sectional Warping for Looms with Sectional Warp Rollers
Sectional Warping for Looms with Sectional Warp Rollers
Monograph · 7 pages · weaving drafts
A short instructional leaflet on sectional warping for looms fitted with sectional warp rollers, written by Osma Gallinger Tod. It explains the advantages over chain warping, how to build and thread a creel, how to use a lease reed, how to wind 2-inch sections onto the roller, and how to form and transfer the cross to lease rods. It then covers threading heddles and sleying, warping stripes, plaids and borders, and adjusting lease reed dentage. Illustrated with sketches, and the last page shows a hosepath draft in a warping sequence.
Special Lace Threading
Special Lace Threading
Monograph · 4 pages · weaving drafts
A short instruction leaflet by Osma Gallinger Tod presenting a four-harness lace sampler on a special threading, a National Conference pattern credited to Mrs. Loraine Kessenich. It gives the warp and threading plan (16/4 cotton or Perle 5, 20 epi, 192 threads) and treadling and weaving directions for fourteen borders, including overshot, Bronson, dropdrall, Spanish lace, leno, Danish medallion, basket weave and Monk's cloth variations. It ends with a list of related lace-weave leaflets and folios offered by the publisher.
Suggestions on the Use of Linens in Hand Weaving
Suggestions on the Use of Linens in Hand Weaving
Monograph · 8 pages · weaving drafts
A short instructional leaflet issued by Gallinger Crafts of Hartland, Michigan, on working with linen yarns in handweaving. It covers round versus singles linen, keeping linen warps damp, a flaxseed warp dressing, finishing linen cloth, and which weave structures suit linen. The remainder is a step-by-step guide to warping on a peg board, beaming the warp, threading the heddles, sleying the reed, tying on and starting to weave, illustrated with line drawings and a rose-path threading example.
The Swivel Weave, Folio 28
The Swivel Weave, Folio 28
Monograph · 6 pages · weaving drafts
Folio 28 from the Osma Gallinger Tod Studio explains the swivel weave, in which pattern blocks appear as colored tabby blocks on the cloth surface with floats on the back. It describes Basic Swivel (three blocks on harnesses 2, 3 and 4) and Two-block Swivel (harness 4 used for accent warps), with four 240-thread drafts, tie-ups for jack and counterbalanced looms, and treadling directions. It also shows how to weave overshot patterns and Summer and Winter as swivel, with the overshot pattern 'Salem Streets' by Helen D. Young as a worked example, including warp plans for fine and coarse settings.
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