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16 Harness Patterns: The Fanciest Twills of All
16 Harness Patterns: The Fanciest Twills of All
Book · 130 pages · weaving drafts
A collection of sixteen-harness point twill patterns compiled by Irene K. Wood from the weaving notebooks of Fred A. Pennington of Des Moines, Iowa. It opens with a short history of these damask-like twills and a biographical sketch of Pennington, then explains the common threading and treadling, with differences in design coming entirely from the tie-up. Most of the book consists of photographs of woven swatches (20/2 mercerized cotton, 36 epi) paired with drawdown and tie-up grids. A comparison section adapts selected patterns to twenty, twelve and eight harnesses, and a closing section shows step by step how to design your own diamond, star, circle and square point twills.
Advertising card
Advertising card
Ephemera · 1 page
A one-sheet advertising card from Robin and Russ Handweavers of Santa Barbara, California, promoting a guide book called Tour and Shop, priced at $2.00 postpaid. The guide lists mills and factories selling seconds, studios and shops of craftspeople, and folk festivals, fairs and craft events across the United States. The card includes a mail-order form.
Advertising card and subscription reminder
Advertising card and subscription reminder
Ephemera · 2 pages
Two-page advertising card from Robin and Russ Handweavers of Santa Barbara, California, promoting Cash's woven name tapes for marking clothing, with sample styles, prices by quantity, and NO-SO cement. It includes a mail-order form and a tear-off renewal slip for subscribers of Warp and Weft ($2.75). The second page also advertises Cashsaver printed Teletags, sew-on or iron-on.
Dressing the Loom
Dressing the Loom
Monograph · 54 pages
A photographic handbook by Ida Grae on direct beaming, a method of warping a loom in which the warp goes straight from the warping reel to the warp beam. It covers warp calculations, making the warp on a reel, spreading in a reed or raddle, changing the cross, beaming, heddling, sleying, tying on to the front apron, and tying new warp to old. Numbered plates (photographs) accompany the step-by-step instructions, with worked arithmetic examples for spreading plans.
Honiton Lace
Honiton Lace
Book · 120 pages · weaving drafts
A 1985 instruction book on making Honiton bobbin lace, by Susanne Thompson. It covers equipment, preparing the pillow and bobbins, and the basic stitches. Five progressive patterns follow (basic flower, handkerchief corner motif, flower spray, trillium motif and bell flower spray), each with a section on working methods, fillings, ribs, purls and leadwork. The final chapters cover mounting Honiton lace on net and designing for it, followed by a bibliography, a list of lace organisations and suppliers, and an index. It is illustrated with many numbered line diagrams and prickings.
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