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Announcement of improved version of the Shuttle Craft Bulletin
Announcement of improved version of the Shuttle Craft Bulletin
Shuttle Craft Guild, October 1956
Ephemera · 2 pages
A two-page announcement from Harriet Tidball of the Shuttle Craft Guild, dated October 1956, that the monthly Shuttle Craft Bulletin will be replaced in January 1957 by a full magazine called Shuttle Craft. It lists the planned features (departments for four-harness, multiple-harness and two-harness weavers, book reviews by Boris Veren, a tested and recommended sources section, and reprints of Mary Atwater articles), the subscription prices for standard and Portfolio editions, and the move of the Guild's address to Monterey, California. Page 2 is an order form for subscriptions and back issues of Bulletins and Styles sheets, with details on advertising in the planned Classified Directory of Services.
Form letter notifying membership of Harriet Tidball's death
Form letter notifying membership of Harriet Tidball's death
Shuttle Craft Guild, August 20, 1969
Ephemera · 1 page
A form letter dated August 20, 1969, from William H. Colburn, brother of Harriet Tidball, informing Shuttle Craft Guild subscribers that she died suddenly on June 25 of a cerebral hemorrhage. It describes the fate of the planned monographs: the weft twining monograph will be completed by Virginia I. Harvey, the primitive loom monograph is dropped, and Monograph Twenty-seven, Weaving Inkle Bands, is issued as a rewrite of The Inkle Weave (1952). It also covers the 1969 portfolio of a small Guatemalan primitive loom, the suspension of 1970 subscriptions, and how to order back monographs.
Handweaver's Instruction Manual
Handweaver's Instruction Manual
Monograph · 45 pages · weaving drafts
An instruction manual for handweavers by Harriet C. Douglas of the Shuttle-Craft Guild, copyrighted 1949. It covers looms and equipment, yarn sizes and warp settings, estimating yardage, reading drafts and tie-ups, dressing the loom (chain and sectional warping), correcting errors, and weaving technique. It then teaches tabby, three-harness weaves, twills, overshot, crackle, summer and winter, Bronson and simple linen weaves, followed by instruction in developing drafts on paper, an index of drafts, a section of drafts, and technique analyses. Many pages carry line drawings and drafts.
Highways for Handweavers
Highways for Handweavers
Other · 23 pages
A 1954 promotional brochure for the Shuttle Craft Guild, run by Harriet Tidball at Kelseyville, California. It describes the Guild's history, membership, the monthly Handweaver's Bulletin and Portfolio edition, Styles sheets, the Home Study Course with a lesson-by-lesson outline, and priced lists of Guild publications and back issues. It also gives a list of recommended yarn sources, a loom testing service, and studio instruction at Clear Lake. It contains no weaving drafts.
Price list
Price list
Shuttle Craft Guild, September 1953
Ephemera · 4 pages
A four-page promotional brochure and price list/order blank from the Shuttle Craft Guild of Virginia City, Montana. It describes the Guild's services (home-study courses, the monthly Handweaver's Bulletin, Portfolio edition, and Styles sheets) and its instruction booklets, and gives a brief history of the Guild from Mary Meigs Atwater's founding to its ownership by Martin and Harriet Tidball. It lists back Bulletins from 1944 to June 1952 by topic and gives prices for subscriptions, books, booklets, courses, and back issues.
Recommended Sources for the Handweaver as Tested by the Shuttle Craft Guild
Recommended Sources for the Handweaver as Tested by the Shuttle Craft Guild
Shuttle Craft Guild, November 1955
Ephemera · 14 pages
A 1955 buyers' guide from the Shuttle Craft Guild (Kelseyville, California), signed by Harriet Tidball, listing sources for handweavers that the Guild had tested. It covers jack looms (Macomber, Gilmore, Herald, Missouri) and small 2-harness looms, plus warping reels, tensioners, shuttles, reeds, bobbin winders, benches, books, woven labels, yarn suppliers, regional studio businesses, and periodicals. The last page lists back issues of the Handweaver's Bulletin from 1952 to 1955 with their subjects.
Scotch Tartan Sets
Scotch Tartan Sets
Monograph · 16 pages
A 1949 Shuttle-Craft Guild pamphlet by Harriet C. Douglas giving thread-count color setts for 132 traditional Scottish tartans. The introduction covers the history and standardization of tartans, threading and weaving as a balanced 2-2 twill, yarn choices (Bernat Fabri wool, Lily Mills cottons), warp setting for various articles, books on tartans, and estimating yarn. The bulk is an alphabetical listing (Anderson to Wemyss) of setts, each with pattern units A, B, C, D, the number of threads per color stripe, and total ends.
Shuttle-Craft Styles
Shuttle-Craft Styles
Monograph · 51 pages · weaving drafts
A collection of Shuttle-Craft Styles project sheets issued by the Shuttle-Craft Guild, numbered #1 to about #48, each giving materials, sources, warping, threading, treadling and finishing directions for a single handwoven article. Projects include costume accessories (handbags, neckties, shawls, stoles, aprons, skirts, a peplum, a baby jacket), table linens (mats, lapkins, a buffet roll), home furnishings (rugs, draperies, window blinds, upholstery tweed, cushions, a director's chair seat), baby blankets, towels and small articles. Many sheets include photographs, weaving drafts and cutting or tailoring diagrams. Weaves covered include Summer and Winter, honeycomb, overshot, Bronson lace, Atwater lace, loop weave, twill variations and double weave.
Twills, Tweeds and All-Wool Fabrics
Twills, Tweeds and All-Wool Fabrics
Monograph · 24 pages · weaving drafts
A 1949 Shuttle-Craft Guild guide by Harriet C. Douglas to weaving woolen and worsted yardages, especially tweeds and twills for clothing. It covers the history of wool and tweed, yarn types and sizes, a glossary of wool textile terms (Glen plaid, Dornik, Shepherd's check, tartans), warp calculation, setting, beaming, weaving, selvages, broken warps and finishing. Six pages of numbered drafts and drawdowns (four- to eight-shaft twills, herringbones, dornicks, modified twills, and multiple-color twills) are followed by a reference list of Shuttle-Craft Bulletins and other sources.
Weaver's Word Finder
Weaver's Word Finder
Monograph · 49 pages
A glossary of over 1,000 terms used by handweavers, arranged alphabetically from A to Z. Entries define loom parts and equipment, weaving processes and techniques, weave structures, fibers and yarns, dyeing, color and design terms, historic textiles, and textile centers. The introduction explains why weaving vocabulary is confused and what the glossary includes and omits, such as pattern names and power-loom terms.
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