Manuscript · 57 pages · weaving drafts
A scanned manuscript pattern and account book kept by Samuel Hunsberger, a Pennsylvania German weaver of Franconia Township, Montgomery County, begun in 1819. It opens with a typed biographical sketch, then reproduces the handwritten pattern book: about 110 threading drafts and nearly 60 tie-ups for four to twenty shafts, including point twill, turned twill, double cloth, damask and float work, with numbered patterns and loose sheets. The later pages hold German-language weaving accounts for customers from 1821 to 1823, with yardage and prices for linen, linsey, tow, coverlets and silk.