First issue (December 1951) of Master Weaver, a bi-monthly bulletin for handweavers issued by Z-Handicrafts of Fulford, Quebec. It contains practical articles on weaving single linen (warping, beaming, threading, loom adjustment, weaving, edge problems), the first part of a series on spot weaves covering swivel weave with drafts and treadlings, a reflective essay on why people weave, and a study of the variations obtainable from four-block patterns, shown as grids of pattern diagrams. It also includes a note on the terms harness, heddle-frame and leaf (from the Encyclopedia of Hand-Weaving) and a piece on shed regulators for counterbalanced looms, with diagrams. An advertisement for the Encyclopedia of Hand-Weaving appears inside the cover.

Issue No. 10 (July 1953) of Master Weaver, a bi-monthly bulletin for handweavers published by Z-Handicrafts in Fulford, Quebec. It opens with an essay on whether to treat handweaving as a craft or a business, then a long technical article on dropped weaves (dropped tabby and dropped twills, frame requirements, tie-ups, and weaving them with a pattern harness). It also covers why selvedges curve up, how to build and use a shed regulator for counterbalanced looms, patterns in double weaves (two-block pockets, stitching, colour effects), and a note on the term "Locked Weft". Many pages carry threading, tie-up and drawdown figures.

Issue No. 11 (September 1953) of Master Weaver, a bi-monthly bulletin for handweavers published by Z-Handicrafts in Fulford, Quebec. It opens with an advertisement for Nilus Leclerc's Pattern Harness, a draw-loom attachment for Leclerc counterbalanced looms. Articles cover planning workshops for teaching weaving, what to weave on looms with many frames (crackle, spot weaves, swivel, huckaback, overshot, pattern twills, with drafts for an 8-frame, 10-treadle loom), and multi-block double weaves with profile drafts, short tie-ups and twill combinations. The issue ends with a design for a double tie-up loom with floating lamms, rear cloth beam and top-mounted warp beam.

Issue No. 12 (November 1953) of Master Weaver, a bi-monthly bulletin for handweavers published by Z-Handicrafts in Fulford, Quebec. It opens with an editor's note and an article on Cannelé, a distorted-warp weave in which short warp floats pull a pattern weft into diagonal diamond-shaped floats, with drafts, tie-ups and yarn suggestions. A long article, "Skill in Handweaving", covers efficient practice: planning, warping methods, threading, tying-in, loom selection, and the rhythm of throwing, beating and shed changing. The second part of construction directions for a double tie-up loom lists materials and describes the frames, levers, lamms, treadles and tie-up. The issue ends with an index of articles in issues 1 to 12.

Issue No. 13 (January 1954) of Master Weaver, a bulletin for handweavers published by Z-Handicrafts in Fulford, Quebec. It opens with an editorial essay, "Problems," criticizing rigidity and poor experimentation in texture weaving, vegetable dyeing and loom design, and urging weavers to learn more theory. Technical articles follow on turned lace for four frames, with tie-ups, profile drafts and a sample linen project, and on the two-harness method (ground and pattern harness) with draw-down instructions. The issue also has a Leclerc horizontal warping mill advertisement, an editor's note about forthcoming drafting lessons, and a reprinted passage on taste from John Murphy's Treatise on the Art of Weaving.

Issue No. 14 (March 1954) of Master Weaver, a bulletin for handweavers published by Z-Handicrafts in Fulford, Quebec. It contains an article on lease and lease rods, the first part of a series on pile weaves covering corduroy drafts and cutting, and the second part of a two-harness method series on turned twills (dimity, dornick, diaper, damask). It also has a short terminology section (counter-marche, sinking and rising sheds), a first lesson on reading weaving drafts, and a description of the magazine's information service.

Issue No. 15 (May 1954) of Master Weaver, a bulletin for handweavers published by Z-Handicrafts in Fulford, Quebec. It opens with an essay on what makes weaving truly modern, followed by a reprinted 1822 passage by Alexander Peddie on boiling and cleansing linen yarn. Technical articles cover colour arrangement in corduroy (weft pile), lifting plans, a two-harness method for crackle, summer-and-winter, swivel and embroidery weaves, a drafting lesson on how to make a draw-down, and waffle weaves. The issue also has an advertisement for weaving lessons and a description of the information service.

Issue No. 16 (July 1954) of Master Weaver, a bulletin for handweavers published in Fulford, Quebec. It contains a business article on costing and selling handwoven goods, a note on the terms "harness" and "heddle-frame", and a scheme for weaving coded messages in overshot floats and picks, with a worked example and a "Merry Xmas" border. A teaching lesson explains how to find the basic treadling for a square pattern, and a final article covers turned swivel (colour in the warp) with drafts, treadling variations and loom requirements. A short editor's note reports the Encyclopedia of Handweaving is out of print.

An issue of Master Weaver, a bulletin for handweavers published by Z-Handicrafts in Fulford, Quebec. It contains an editorial against advertising that calls weaving easy, an article on weaving coded messages using block patterns, and a piece on three-dimensional texture weaving with irregular yarn mixes, mixed-weave drafts and chenille. It also includes a teaching lesson on drafting symmetrical treadling variations (the 'rose' variation) and an article on Hälkrus (lacey weave or colonial honeycomb), with drafts and drawdowns.

Issue of Master Weaver, a bulletin for handweavers published by Z-Handicrafts in Fulford, Quebec. It contains an article on making colonial overshot modern with short, even floats, tables built from units, and binderless multicolor treadling. It also has a piece on raddles and spreading the warp wider than the reed for fine yarns, and Drafting lesson V on balancing a draft and fitting borders and selvedges. The issue ends with a 1952-1954 index and a note on plans for 1955.

Issue No. 19 (January 1955) of Master Weaver, a bulletin for handweavers published by Z-Handicrafts in Fulford, Quebec. It contains an article on cotton (history, fiber properties, chemistry, mercerizing), a warp sett chart for heavy yarns with sett suggestions for various weaves, and the first part of a detailed article on chenille (twice woven) rugs covering making the chenille weft, cutting it, and weaving flat, one-sided or round pile. It also includes a short excerpt on chenille from Gilroy (1844), a drafting lesson on abbreviating threading drafts and short drafts for overshot, and an advertisement for weaving lessons at Z-Handicrafts.

Issue No. 2 (February 1952) of Master Weaver, a bi-monthly bulletin for handweavers published by Z-Handicrafts in Fulford, Quebec. It has articles on analysing fabrics by draw-down (finding the threading, tie-up and treadling from a sample), on technical perfection in handweaving, and on single spot weaves, including lace, huck-on-spot, single-face and turned floats. It also gives 31 Scottish pattern twill drafts for 5 to 16 shafts adapted from John Murphy's 1833 book, notes on colours in summer-and-winter, and notes on terminology (honeycomb, waffle and hålkrus; dornick twill and dornick weave). It ends with the rules of the magazine's information service.

Issue No. 20 (March 1955) of Master Weaver, a bulletin for handweavers published by Z-Handicrafts of Fulford, Quebec. It includes an article on linen (history, fiber properties, processing), a guide to weaving patterned chenille rugs with short pieces of chenille weft, a lesson on short-draft notation for twills, spot weaves and swivel, and an article on producing crepe fabrics with twist direction, differing tensions and multiharness drafts. It also has an excerpt from Peddie's 1822 The Linen Manufacturer, a short review of Mary E. Black's Handweavers' Reference, and an advertisement for individual weaving lessons.

Issue No. 21 (May 1955) of Master Weaver, a bulletin for handweavers published by Z-Handicrafts in Fulford, Quebec. It contains an essay arguing for the metric yarn count (meters per gram), with conversion formulas for cotton, linen, wool and silk, and an article on silk covering history, properties, reeling and throwing, and a table of silk counts. A practical guide to weaving fine silk follows, covering winding, warping, beaming, threading, reed choice, loom adjustment, weaving problems and boiling off the gum. The issue ends with a lesson on short drafts and profiles for unit weaves (Summer and Winter, Bronson lace, huck lace) and an advertisement for individual weaving lessons.

Issue No. 22 (July 1955) of Master Weaver, a bulletin for handweavers published by Z-Handicrafts of Fulford, Quebec. It opens with an essay on colour and design, arguing that creative weaving requires knowledge of the craft, and a short 1844 quotation from Clinton G. Gilroy. The technical sections explain transcribing four- and five-frame drafts onto eight frames (Bronson, summer and winter, rep, diamond twill, waffle), give a chart of basic eight-frame tie-ups A to W, and present Lesson 9 on drafting from profiles using units of weaves such as summer and winter, huckaback, Bronson lace, dimity, dornick and damask. The last page advertises individual weaving lessons at Z-Handicrafts.

Issue No. 23 (September 1955) of Master Weaver, a bi-monthly bulletin for advanced handweavers published by Z-Handicrafts in Fulford, Quebec. It contains an article on learning designing through a cultural background, from traditional patterns to modern, functional design (with place mat layout sketches). A technical article on M's-&-O's explains the weave and shows it on overshot, crackle, summer and winter, huckaback, Bronson and Swedish lace threadings, with practical huckaback and Bronson drafts. A drafting lesson covers three methods of drawing profile drafts, and the editor reports a survey of lapsed subscribers.

Issue No. 24 (November 1955) of Master Weaver, a bi-monthly bulletin for handweavers published by Z-Handicrafts of Fulford, Quebec. It opens with an editorial on the need for standards and guild certification of weaving teachers and of hand-woven goods sold to tourists, including four categories of handwoven goods. A long article explains crackle weave: threading units, incidental heddles, three treadling methods, upholstery variations, and a practical linen project. The issue also has a drafting lesson on profile variations for two-block patterns (Bronson lace) and an item on converting weft-face drafts into warp-face patterns.

Issue No. 25 (January 1956) of Master Weaver, a bi-monthly bulletin from Z-Handicrafts, Fulford, Quebec. It proposes graded standards (Apprentice, Journeyman, Junior Master, Senior Master) for weavers and teachers, with sample requirements and a jury system. It continues with an article on multi-block turned swivel, explaining how to count blocks and frames and work out threading, tie-up and treadling for several patterns, including a 3D variant. Further sections cover a drafting lesson on variations of 3-block patterns and an article on mixing crackle and diamond twill in one draft, with a table cloth project.

Issue No. 26 (March 1956) of Master Weaver, a bi-monthly bulletin published by Z-Handicrafts of Fulford, Quebec. It explains how to build 'accidental' drafts from random number sequences (cards, telephone directories, dice) and how to check them for long floats, and gives a coat-length project in wool. Other articles cover drafting 3-block patterns from 2-block variations (Lesson 12), multiple and mixed warps (finding average yarn count for sett, tension boxes, warping, beaming and sleying), and mock leno woven on huckaback lace. The issue also carries an ad for individual weaving lessons and an editor's note.

Issue No. 27 (May 1956) of Master Weaver, a bi-monthly bulletin for handweavers published by Z-Handicrafts, Fulford, Quebec. It concludes the series on weaving standards by quoting and answering reader letters on guild standards, hand versus fly shuttle, and a central sales and certification agency. It also introduces analysis of yarns (appearance, physical, burning and microscope tests for identifying fibers), and a lesson on Summer & Winter covering its relation to Crackle, compound tie-ups, 3D weft effects, simplifying traditional drafts, and a damask-imitation linen place-mat project.

Issue No. 28 (July 1956) of Master Weaver, a bi-monthly bulletin for handweavers from Z-Handicrafts in Fulford, Quebec. It gives a formula and tables for working out warp sett from yarn yards per pound and the number of interlacement ties in the weave. It describes double diagonal (DD) twills on 4, 6 and 8 frames, with drafts, treadlings and two practical projects for upholstery and curtains. A drafting lesson explains how to analyze a fabric sample, and an article on compound sleying includes a table of setts for common reed numbers.

Issue No. 29 (September 1956) of Master Weaver, a bi-monthly bulletin for handweavers published by Z-Handicrafts, Fulford, Quebec. It contains three articles: an eight-shaft polychrome double weave method with a block key table, sample threadings and treadlings and a place-mat project; a comparison of Bronson and Swedish lace, including turned lace, profile drafts and a linen practical project; and the second lesson on analyzing fabric from a drawdown to find threading, treadling and tie-up. An announcement of topics for the next issue closes it.

Issue No. 3 (April 1952) of Master Weaver, a bi-monthly bulletin for handweavers published by Z-Handicrafts of Fulford, Quebec. It continues a series on analysing patterns, using short graphical and numerical drafts for overshot, crackle, spot weaves, lace and Summer-and-Winter. It also includes Spot Weaves part 3 (Summer-and-Winter and Paper Spots), an essay on who deserves the title Master Weaver, a glossary entry on Cape, a long article on the logic of tie-ups, and an Information Service piece on lappet weave with instructions for making a lappet needle.

Issue No. 30 (November 1956) of Master Weaver, a bi-monthly bulletin for handweavers published by Z-Handicrafts in Fulford, Quebec. It opens with a memorial note for Mary Meigs Atwater, followed by an article on the history and purposes of weavers' guilds and how to choose one. Technical articles cover cross-weaves (gauze, leno, pickets, riddles) woven with doups on four frames, a shortcut for designing new fabrics on multiharness looms using the tie-up as the draw-down, and lesson 3 of a series on analyzing drafts, including rearranging threading and treadling.

Issue No. 31 (January 1957) of Master Weaver, a bi-monthly bulletin for handweavers published by Z-Handicrafts in Fulford, Quebec. It contains an article on satins and sateens covering the history, satinet on four shafts, the method of finding the move and drawing down satins, and a table of satins for 5 to 16 frames. It also has an opinion piece on weaving gadgets, a second article on cross-weave (pickets and riddles on four shafts, with a rayon scarf project), and instructions for building and using a doubling stand for winding two yarns together.

Issue No. 32 (March 1957) of Master Weaver, a bi-monthly bulletin for handweavers published by Z-Handicrafts of Fulford, Quebec. It opens with an article on colour selection for weaving projects, using Munsell hue, value and chroma and three tables of combinations. It then covers Rep weave (warp-faced, alternating heavy and fine wefts) with two-block and four-block drafts and transcription from Summer-and-Winter and Crackle. It concludes with the fourth part of a series on analysing patterns (profile drafts, short tie-ups and short treadling drafts) and two satin projects, a black sateen scarf and an experimental 3D fabric, with sett, yarn and treadling details.

Issue No. 33 of Master Weaver, a bulletin for handweavers published by Z-Handicrafts of Fulford, Quebec. It contains an article on proportions in design (golden mean, root two, and colour-area ratios in stripes), a long article on weaving rugs in bound weaving (no tabby; overshot, crackle and Summer-and-Winter on four shafts) with treadlings, tie-ups and a practical rug project, and a proposal for guild-issued weaving certificates for Apprentice, Journeyman and Master Weaver levels.

Issue No. 34 (July 1957) of Master Weaver, a bi-monthly bulletin for handweavers published by Z-Handicrafts of Fulford, Quebec. It has four articles: Texture (getting rough and smooth areas in one fabric using summer and winter, overshot, crackle and Bronson), Synthetic Yarns (a survey of rayon, nylon, vinyon, saran, orlon, terylene, perlon, polythene and glass fibers), Velvet Rugs (warp-pile weaving on a four-harness loom with velvet rods and extra warp beams), and Problems in Twills Part 1 (high twills on more than four frames, with symmetry rules). The issue includes drafts and diagrams, a Handweaver & Craftsman advertisement and a list of sample cards for sale.

Issue No. 35 (September 1957) of Master Weaver, a bi-monthly bulletin for handweavers published by Z-Handicrafts of Fulford, Quebec. It contains the last article in a series on designing, 'Numerical Patterns', which builds colour patterns on graph paper from counted sequences of squares. It also has a short quotation from C.C. Gilroy (1844) on pattern drawers, and 'Modern S & W', which describes a Summer & Winter variation with floats of 5, 7 or 9 on 6 or more shafts, with drafts, treadlings and a wall hanging project. The last article covers pile-warp velvet rugs, with profile drafts, warp calculations and a 4-frame rug project.

Issue No. 36 (November 1957) of Master Weaver, a bi-monthly bulletin for handweavers published by Z-Handicrafts in Fulford, Quebec. It announces plans to revive net weaving in 1958 and includes an essay on wool (properties, breeds, fleece parts, carding versus combing, yarn counts). It also has a texture-weave article that alternates two twills in one threading and uses mixed warps with non-dividing repeats, with a practical upholstery project. Part 2 of "High Twills" covers rose-fashion (turned) treadlings for 4- to 16-shaft twills and the number of variations, with a 5:1:1:1 linen tablecloth project. The issue ends with a cumulative index of Master Weaver issues 19-36, and a page advertising Handweaver & Craftsman back issues.

Issue No. 38 (March 1958) of Master Weaver, a bi-monthly bulletin for handweavers published by Z-Handicrafts in Fulford, Quebec. It opens with an editorial, "Art or Craft?", arguing that most handweavers are craftsmen rather than artists and that technique should come first. It follows with a short historical anecdote from the History of Brome County, an article on free-design chenille rugs woven in sections with locked wefts, the conclusion of the High Twills series on enlarging patterns through changes in threading, and part 2 of Net Weaves, which describes making and using a wooden cross-comb and a picking stick. The last page advertises individual weaving lessons.

Issue of the Canadian bulletin Master Weaver (Z-Handicrafts, Fulford, Quebec) dated May 1958. It opens with an essay on weaving faster and easier, arguing that professional 18th-century handweavers worked at high speed and that modern weavers suffer from poor equipment and instruction. The main article presents a method of weaving Summer-and-Winter with a tabby ground, with drafts for 4 and 8 shafts, yarn options, a place mat project, and notes on multi-block versions. The issue ends with a short Curiosity Shop note on one-tabby S-&-W on an 8-shaft damask threading and an essay on how exhibitions and juries should be run.

Issue No. 4 (June 1952) of Master Weaver, a bi-monthly bulletin for handweavers published by Z-Handicrafts in Fulford, Quebec. It contains an essay on the meanings of 'texture' in weaving, with a worked example of designing a woven window blind. It also has an article on huckaback lace with drafts for 6x6 and 10x10 huck on counterbalanced looms, a note on the Honeycomb, Waffle and Halkrus terminology, and a description of the clasped-weft technique. A further article reviews short-draft notation for twill, overshot, spot weaves, summer and winter, crackle, lace, huckaback and turned twills. The issue ends with an advertisement for the Encyclopedia of Hand-Weaving and a notice of the information service.

Issue No. 40 (July 1958) of Master Weaver, a bi-monthly bulletin for handweavers published by Z-Handicrafts in Fulford, Quebec. It contains an editorial and the article "Shortcuts" on choosing a loom (arguing for a four-shaft counterbalanced loom with a shed regulator), and an article on dimity and dimity cord in 3-, 4- and 6-shaft 1:2 twill with drafts and a linen table runner project. It also has a note on the term "shaft", a first sampler for net weaves using rigid wefts and a net comb, and a description of a rotating sett indicator sold by the publisher. The last page is an advertisement for Canadian yarns from Charles E. Billard Ltd., Montreal.

Issue No. 41 (September 1958) of Master Weaver, a bi-monthly bulletin for handweavers published by Z-Handicrafts in Fulford, Quebec. It opens with an editorial on handweaving exhibitions and jury judging, quoting reader letters. The Shortcuts series then covers multishaft looms (jack versus double tie-up) and setting up a loom (placement, anchoring, lighting, bench height, brake and batten faults). The issue ends with an article on patterns on a 1:2 twill threading on four shafts, with threading units, a draft and treadling options, followed by advertisements for Canadian yarns and a warp indicator.

Issue No. 42 (November 1958) of Master Weaver, a bi-monthly bulletin for handweavers published by Z-Handicrafts in Fulford, Quebec. It opens with an editor's note on subscriptions and a craftsman's manifesto ("On This We Believe") arguing that crafts differ from art and that craft juries should be made up of craftsmen. A "Shortcuts" article covers maintaining and improving looms: shed regulators on counterbalanced looms, a dowel "shed stop" for jack-type looms, extra warp beams, small workshop conveniences, and lubrication and care. The main weaving article describes a six-block overshot on four shafts with no tabby, using floats of equal length. It includes draw-downs, a table of threading units, a profile draft, and a project for "Gothic" place mats in cotton. The issue also has advertisements for Handweaver & Craftsman, Z-Handicrafts and a Montreal yarn supplier.

Issue No. 43 (January-February 1959) of Master Weaver, a bi-monthly bulletin for handweavers published by Z-Handicrafts in Fulford, Quebec. It contains an essay on the psychology and symbolism of colours, a continuing series on warping equipment (Hindu method, warping frame, horizontal warping reel), and an article on small overshot patterns with threading and treadling drafts and two practical projects for place mats. It also includes a short piece on Whip Net, a net weave, and ends with advertisements for Handweaver & Craftsman back issues, a weaving book catalog, and Canadian yarns.

Issue No. 44 (March-April 1959) of Master Weaver, a bi-monthly bulletin for handweavers published by Z-Handicrafts of Fulford, Quebec. It contains practical tips on sectional warping (bobbins and tubes, tension box rollers, getting enough warp tension) and on warping mill use with 2 or 10 tubes. The main article covers plain Swivel, a spot-weave relative of Bronson, with draw-downs, classification of variants, three treadling methods, two-colour patterning and a place mat project. It also has a Whip Net lesson on doup setup, tie-up and weft take-up, a humorous piece on confused weaving terminology in books by non-weavers, and advertisements for books and Canadian yarns.

Issue No. 45 (May-June 1959) of Master Weaver, a bi-monthly bulletin published by Z-HANDICRAFTS of Fulford, Quebec. It includes an installment on the technology of handweaving, tracing the development of loom equipment from mats and basketry to the foot-power loom. A technical article on turned twills (dimity, diaper, dornick, damask) covers block drafting and tie-ups with drafts. Other items are a piece on unsymmetrical huckaback lace with a 12 x 12 huck lace place mat project, and a Shortcuts article on templets (stretchers) that covers when to use them and how hinged and sliding types work. The last pages carry advertisements for a weaving book catalog and weaving lessons.

Issue No. 46 of Master Weaver, a bi-monthly bulletin for handweavers published by Z-Handicrafts in Fulford, Quebec. It contains the second part of a short history of handweaving technology, tracing looms from China, India, Egypt, Greece and Rome to the flying shuttle, Jacquard and the power loom. A Shortcuts column gives methods for beaming a warp without a helper and with reduced friction. Odd Weaves covers irregular huckaback lace, with drafts and a place-mat project. Turned Twills part 2 explains how to design matching tie-ups for 1:2 and 2:1 twills and the shaft and treadle limits for multi-block patterns. The issue ends with advertisements for a book service and a Warp Indicator.

Issue No. 5 (August 1952) of Master Weaver, a bi-monthly bulletin for handweavers published by Z-Handicrafts in Fulford, Quebec. The lead article compares loom types (single and double tie-up jack looms, counterbalanced, draw-looms, two-harness, fly-shuttle, frame and table looms) and argues for matching the loom to the weaving. Other articles cover swivel effect woven on overshot threadings, 8-frame overshot drafts on opposites, the meaning of "two-harness method", and the use of colour in tabby, basket and twill weaves with drawdowns. A reprinted excerpt from Clinton G. Gilroy (1844) on striking up the weft, errata for issue 4, and an advertisement for an Encyclopedia of Hand-Weaving are also included.

Issue No. 54 of Master Weaver, a bi-monthly bulletin for handweavers published by Z-Handicrafts in Fulford, Quebec. It announces weaver certificates (Junior Weaver, Journeyman, Junior Master and Senior Master) with sample requirements for each level, and includes an article on Bronson lace with threading and treadling units and counts of possible pattern variations. Shorter pieces cover deknotting woven cloth, formulas for counting pattern variations, and a second article on two-warp fabrics with cord and pile effects. The issue ends with a subject index for 1958-1960 and advice on binding back copies.

Issue No. 55 (January-February 1961) of Master Weaver, a bi-monthly bulletin for handweavers issued by Z-Handicrafts, Fulford, Quebec. It opens with an article on how to teach handweaving, including a 20-lesson theory and 80-hour practice schedule from yarns and tabby through twills, overshot, crackle and summer-and-winter. The main technical article, "Huck & Lace Combined," explains drafting huckaback and huck-lace in the Scandinavian style, first on four shafts and then on multiple shafts, with tie-up methods and treadling sequences. A short "Quizz in Overshot" asks how many symmetrical four-block overshot variations exist and gives drafts for two extra ones.

Issue No. 56 of Master Weaver, a bimonthly bulletin for handweavers published by Z-Handicrafts in Fulford, Quebec. It covers Full Swivel weaving, with 8-shaft drafts, skeleton tie-ups, a conversion table, and practical projects for a chessboard on four shafts and cotton place mats on eight. It also covers Texture Overshot, an overshot variation woven without a binder for relief effects, and part 3 of the Two-Warp Weaves series, which introduces two-warp double weaves with sampling exercises on tension. The issue ends with an article on shed regulators for counterbalanced looms, including a spring-based conversion to a reversed jack-type action.

Issue No. 57 (May-June 1961) of Master Weaver, a bi-monthly bulletin for handweavers written by S. A. Zielinski in Fulford, Quebec. It contains an article on four-shaft Dornick twill patterns with drafts and a practical upholstery project, and an article on weft-face Swivel weaving with an upholstery project. It also describes a homemade automatic take-up and let-off for a handloom, with diagrams, and discusses two-warp double weaves on 10 to 21 shafts. The last page advertises Zielinski's Encyclopaedia of Handweaving.

Issue No. 58 (July-August 1961) of Master Weaver, S. A. Zielinski's bi-monthly bulletin for handweavers, published by Z-Handicrafts in Fulford, Quebec. It opens with an essay urging handweavers to do individual research in technique, designing and history, with suggested topics and advice on collecting books, drafts and samples. Two technical articles follow: one on combining locked wefts with swivel (a four-shaft weave with a special two-colour treadling notation), and one on multishaft (eight-shaft) overshot with stitching ties. The issue ends with an advertisement for Zielinski's Encyclopaedia of Handweaving, and an advertisement for Handweaver & Craftsman is bound in.

Issue No. 59 (September-October 1961) of Master Weaver, a bi-monthly bulletin for handweavers by S. A. Zielinski, published by Z-Handicrafts in Fulford, Quebec. It contains installments on the logical genealogy of weaves (tabby to basket, twill, crackle and overshot), distorted (deflected) weft effects with practical project drafts, Broche as a tissue weave on 6 or more shafts, and Twill Lace (a 4x4 lace derived from huckaback) with a linen towel project. It includes numerous drafts and a back-page advertisement for the author's Encyclopaedia of Handweaving; an inside page carries Handweaver & Craftsman subscription ads.

Issue No. 6 (October 1952) of Master Weaver, a bi-monthly bulletin for advanced handweavers published by Z-Handicrafts in Fulford, Quebec. It opens with an editorial on renewals and a planned series of equipment-building descriptions, then an article on achieving good selvedges (bobbin winding, warp tension, beating rhythm, weft twist). It also includes a Louis Crommelin (1705) excerpt on dressing linen warp, an introduction to the drafting theory of double weaves (double-width and circular fabrics, double twill, stitched double cloth, stitching treadles and extra frames), and an article on designing modern block patterns in traditional weaves with profile drafts, worked through in summer-and-winter and 1:2 turned twill. The last page advertises an Encyclopedia of Hand-Weaving.

Issue No. 60 (November-December 1961) of Master Weaver, a bi-monthly bulletin for handweavers published by Z-Handicrafts in Fulford, Quebec. It opens with an editorial essay on the flying shuttle, which rejects it as a speed device but accepts it for very wide fabrics. It then presents a new two-colour method of weaving free patterns in locked wefts, with a cocktail napkin project, and a discussion of multishaft twill lace versus huck lace on 8 to 12 shafts, with linen towel and rayon place mat projects. The last article covers unsymmetric diamond twill with and without a binder, with sample fancy treadlings, drafts and a wool yardage project. The issue ends with an advertisement for Zielinski's Encyclopaedia of Handweaving.

Issue No. 65 (September-October 1962) of Master Weaver, a bi-monthly bulletin for handweavers published by Z-Handicrafts in Fulford, Quebec. It contains articles on the design and history of striped fabrics, a handwoven pile "fur coat" fabric combining corduroy pile, tabby lining and stitching on 8 shafts, basket weave (2:2, 3:3, 4:4) with tabby-edge threadings and weaving rhythm, and backing in warp using turned drafts. A "From the Classics" excerpt from Clinton G. Gilroy's The Art of Weaving (1844) on harmonious colouring is included, and the issue ends with a subscription and product advertisement.