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Card Loom Weaving
Card Loom Weaving
Monograph · 16 pages
Dryad Leaflet No. 100 gives instructions for weaving on cardboard card looms, aimed at teachers and children in infant and junior classes. It covers basketry foundations, straight serrated cards, and shaped cards for mats, tea cosies, bags, berets and slippers. It explains warping methods, tapestry versus tabby weave, joining threads, removing work from the card, and finishing with felt linings, handles and sewing uppers to soles. Diagrams and photographs show the loom preparation and finished articles.
Cord Knotting
Cord Knotting
Monograph · 15 pages
Dryad Leaflet No. 127 is a short instruction booklet on decorative cord knotting and macramé-style string work by E. Mary Macdonald of Dorset House School of Occupational Therapy. It gives step-by-step directions, with diagrams, for eight knots and plaits: buttonhole, finger knitting, four in hand, half hitch, nine or seven plait, round plait, Solomon's knot and square sennate. It ends with instructions for four knotted belts (A to D) attached to buckles, with notes on string lengths, colour arrangements and uses such as bag handles, dog leads and belts.
Hand-Weaving on Two-Way Looms
Hand-Weaving on Two-Way Looms
Monograph · 16 pages
A Dryad Handicrafts leaflet introducing hand-weaving on two-way looms, where a heddle makes two sheds. It explains plain (tabby) weave, colour and texture variations, picked-out patterns and suitable yarns. It gives instructions for using a simple braid loom, warping with posts, chaining and mounting a warp on roller looms, and describes several Dryad models (W36, W38, W213, W204) and the Scottish inkle loom (W224).
How to Weave on Four Way Table Looms
How to Weave on Four Way Table Looms
Monograph · 16 pages · weaving drafts
Dryad Leaflet No. 89 gives instructions for assembling, warping, threading and weaving on Dryad four-shaft table looms: the Wendy Loom W170, Table Loom W42, Cottage Loom W41A, and the W205 foot-power stand adaptation. It covers heddle preparation, calculating heddle counts, making wool and cotton warps on a warping frame, mounting the warp, threading, and weaving technique. Drafts are given for Rose Path, Honeysuckle and Monk's Belt, with foot-power pedal tie-ups and treadling orders for borders. Line diagrams illustrate the looms, warping frame, spool rack and raddle.
Needle Weaving Embroidery
Needle Weaving Embroidery
Monograph · 12 pages
A Dryad Handicrafts leaflet (No. 79) explaining needle weaving as an embroidery technique, in which threads are withdrawn from a band of fabric and the remaining threads are woven or darned with coloured yarns. It covers choice of materials and weaving threads, working a simple bar over groups of threads, planning patterns on squared paper, and finishing the corners of borders. Photographs show a stool seat, belt, child's apron and rug, with diagrams and a colour chart of border designs.
Netting
Netting
Monograph · 14 pages
Dryad Leaflet No. 92 is an instructional booklet on hand netting with a mesh stick and needle. It covers tools, string choice, casting on, plain diamond mesh, and joining with the weaver's knot. Projects include a hammock, square- and diamond-mesh ping-pong nets, a striped string shopping bag on rings, rabbit or purse nets, and a wool scarf. Each is illustrated with numbered line drawings.
Re-Caning a Stool or Chair Seat
Re-Caning a Stool or Chair Seat
Monograph · 11 pages
Dryad Leaflet No. 16 gives instructions for re-caning a stool or chair seat with seating cane. It lists the tools (knife, clearer, doubler, shell bodkin, cane seating weaver) and gives home-made substitutes. It then describes the seven-stage standard pattern, three alternative four-stage patterns, and a closely woven reversible loose-seated stool with a twill side and a diamond side. Diagrams and photographs of the stages and patterns accompany the text.
Rug Weaving
Rug Weaving
Monograph · 16 pages
Dryad Leaflet No. 85 is a beginner's instruction booklet on weaving rugs with string warp and wool weft, covering three Dryad devices: a simple rug frame, a rug loom with a reed and screw tensioning, and a foot power rug loom with heddle frames and treadles. It explains warping, making sheds with leashes, weaving technique, joining wool, and keeping edges even. It also covers pattern weaving with colour bands and slit-avoiding methods, a sampler rug chart, knotted pile rugs, colour choice, finishing fringes, and a table of material quantities.
Spinning Wool
Spinning Wool
Monograph · 12 pages
A Dryad Handicrafts leaflet giving beginner instructions for hand-spinning wool. It covers choosing and preparing fleece (teasing by hand and carding to make rolags), spinning with a drop spindle, and the parts, assembly, driving band and use of a treadle spinning wheel. It also explains making 2-ply yarn, winding skeins, and washing the spun wool, and illustrates the steps with photographs and a numbered line drawing of the wheel.
Tablet Weaving
Tablet Weaving
Mabel W. Peach · Dryad, c. 1930-1939
Monograph · 28 pages · weaving drafts
A Dryad Handicrafts booklet introducing tablet (card) weaving for beginners, with an introduction by H. H. Peach on the craft's history and geographic spread. It covers materials, tablets, shuttles, beaters and simple looms, then explains threading and quarter-turn sequences. Nine graded patterns are given on squared-paper charts with threading tables, from two-way black and white bands to a three-colour pattern and a broader braid after van Gennep and Jéquier. Photographs show tablet-woven bands, tablets and equipment from Bikanir, Russia and elsewhere, plus a Viking-age grave excavation. A bibliography of works on tablet weaving is included.
Tablet Weaving
Tablet Weaving
Monograph · 16 pages · weaving drafts
A Dryad Handicrafts leaflet (No. 111) giving a practical introduction to tablet (card) weaving. It covers materials, tablets, shuttle, beater and simple looms or waist-belt setups, then explains threading and quarter-turning the tablets and setting up the warp. Eleven numbered pattern drafts follow, from simple two-colour stripes and chequers to three- and four-colour designs, with diagrams, photographs of braids and instructions for threading from above or below.
Wool and Wool-Sorting
Wool and Wool-Sorting
Monograph · 12 pages
Dryad Leaflet No. 138 introduces wool for hand spinners and weavers. It covers the structure and properties of the wool fibre, carbonization of vegetable matter, and a survey of British sheep breeds grouped as long wools, short wools and mountain sheep, with notes on suitability for hand spinning. A second article, on wool-sorting for handicraft workers, explains fleece grading into matchings and gives practical steps for sorting a fleece, illustrated with photographs of sheep and of sorters at work.
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