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Shuttle (Fall 1947)
Shuttle (Fall 1947)
Shuttle, Fall 1947
Periodical · 8 pages
Fall 1947 issue of The Shuttle, a house newsletter for members of the Maysville Guild of Home Weavers, published by January & Wood Co. of Maysville, Ky., makers of Maysville Warp and Filler. It consists mainly of short letters from home rag-rug weavers in several states, describing their rug sales, looms and use of Maysville Warp, with photographs. It also includes a tip on using yardsticks to make rug fringe, written instructions for a striped 'Golden Stairs' rug with a checkered border, and a short poem. No weaving drafts are given.
Shuttle (Fall 1949)
Shuttle (Fall 1949)
Shuttle, Fall 1949
Periodical · 9 pages
Fall 1949 issue of The Shuttle, house magazine of the Maysville Guild, published by January & Wood Company of Maysville, Kentucky. It collects short profiles of Guild weavers who earn money weaving rag and yarn rugs, including an Arkansas rug shop, an Ohio weaving business with four looms and outworkers, an Illinois woman, a 92-year-old Iowa beginner, and a Nebraska family whose loom paid off. It also announces new rayon and blended yarns (Kentucky Lusterspun, All-Purpose, Home Craft) alongside Maysville cotton warp and rug filler, with hand-washing advice for woven floor coverings. It ends with a Minnesota weaver's prize rug and bookmark.
Shuttle (Fall 1950)
Shuttle (Fall 1950)
Shuttle, Fall 1950
Periodical · 8 pages
Fall 1950 issue of The Shuttle, a house organ of the Maysville Weavers Guild issued by January & Wood Co. of Maysville, Kentucky, marking the firm's 100 years of making carpet warp. It profiles Guild weavers who sell hand-woven rugs, including shops in Connecticut, Kansas, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, and includes A. L. McKeeth's account of weaving Navajo-style rugs on Maysville warp. It also advertises Alice K. Cripps's two-harness book and new rayon and cotton-rayon yarns, and has pieces on pricing, advertising and treating weaving as a business rather than a hobby.
Shuttle (Fall 1951)
Shuttle (Fall 1951)
Shuttle, Fall 1951
Periodical · 8 pages · weaving drafts
Fall 1951 issue of The Shuttle, a promotional newsletter from January & Wood Co. of Maysville, Kentucky, for Maysville Guild weavers using Maysville carpet warp and rug filler. It presents short profiles of weavers from several states who sell hand-woven rag and filler rugs, with advice on pricing rugs, displaying them for sale, and labeling them. It also promotes Alice K. Cripps's book Adventures in Weaving on a Two-Harness Loom. The main instructional feature is Cripps's article on four-harness Rose Path with four warp colors, including treadling, border, and bag directions on the last page.
Shuttle (Fall 1952)
Shuttle (Fall 1952)
Shuttle, Fall 1952
Periodical · 8 pages · weaving drafts
Fall 1952 issue of The Shuttle, a promotional magazine for home weavers published by January & Wood Co. of Maysville, Kentucky, to advertise Maysville warp and filler yarns. It mixes encouragement to revive old looms, profiles of weavers who sell rugs or win State Fair prizes, and letters and photos from readers. Practical content includes a four-harness Remembrance pattern rug in color variations with treadling and border directions, a two-harness bath mat and place mat project, directions for a Lurex-and-Lusterspun twill bag and fishbone twill apron, and a tip for saving warp when tying on a new warp.
Shuttle (Fall 1953)
Shuttle (Fall 1953)
Shuttle, Fall 1953
Periodical · 8 pages · weaving drafts
Fall 1953 issue of The Shuttle, a promotional magazine for the Maysville Guild, published by January & Wood Co. of Maysville, Kentucky, for users of Maysville carpet warp. It includes readers' methods for keeping rug fringes from fraying in the washing machine, and Alice K. Cripps's directions for a colorful two-harness pattern called "Gentleman's Choice" (bath mats, bags, tray cloths, slipper cases). It also has profiles of guild weavers, a Kentucky State Fair rug contest report, and a Pharaohs Wheel rug draft. Much of the text promotes Maysville warp and Kentucky yarns.
Shuttle (Fall 1955)
Shuttle (Fall 1955)
Shuttle, Fall 1955
Periodical · 8 pages · weaving drafts
Fall 1955 issue of The Shuttle, a promotional periodical from January & Wood Co. (Maysville carpet warp). It presents Alice K. Cripps's "International Pattern" for 2-harness looms, combining Guatemalan-style borders with a French-type center threading. It gives rug and article instructions (rugs, place mats, television mat, pot-holder, knitting bags), a warp order list and a threading draft, plus profiles of Maysville Guild weavers.
Shuttle (Fall 1961)
Shuttle (Fall 1961)
Shuttle, Fall 1961
Periodical · 24 pages · weaving drafts
Fall 1961 issue of The Shuttle, a newsletter from the January & Wood / Maysville Guild for rug weavers using Maysville carpet warp and rug filler. Alice K. Cripps contributes two pattern features: the four-harness "New Hope" pattern with threading and treadling drafts, and the two-harness "Santa Claus Special" with four rug variations, place mats and runners, and two knitting bags. The rest of the issue is reader letters covering rug prices, sectional warping, uses for thrums, home-made bobbins and looms, rewarping methods, and weaving as a home business, with photographs of readers and their looms.
Shuttle (Fall 1962)
Shuttle (Fall 1962)
Shuttle, Fall 1962
Periodical · 30 pages · weaving drafts
Fall 1962 issue of The Shuttle, the booklet newsletter of the January & Wood Co. (Maysville, Kentucky), aimed at rug and two- and four-harness weavers. It gives a "Do It Yourself" two-harness rug and place mat pattern (with plain and fancy threading sections in white carpet warp) and an "Import Idea" four-harness pattern with treadling sampler suggestions by Alice K. Cripps. The rest is reader letters, questions and answers on selvages, warp tension, coverlet books, tension boxes for sectional warping, State Fair prize winners, pricing, and a correction to Cripps's Four Harness Primer.
Shuttle (Spring 1947)
Shuttle (Spring 1947)
Shuttle, Spring 1947
Periodical · 10 pages
Spring 1947 issue of The Shuttle, a house newsletter that January & Wood Co. of Maysville, Kentucky issued to members of the Maysville Guild of Home Weavers. It encourages weavers to advertise and display their hand-woven rag-type rugs, and it prints testimonials from guild weavers in several states along with photos of members. It gives written instructions for weaving three two-harness rugs (Arrow, Log Cabin, Madison seersucker) with Maysville warp and rug filler. It closes with a notice about guild labels and washing and colorfastness of the yarns.
Shuttle (Spring 1950)
Shuttle (Spring 1950)
Shuttle, Spring 1950
Periodical · 8 pages
Spring 1950 issue of The Shuttle, a house newsletter of the Maysville Guild, published by January & Wood Co. of Maysville, Kentucky, to promote Maysville Warp, rug fillers and yarns. It contains short profiles and letters from Guild weavers in Oklahoma, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, New York, Ohio and Indiana, with tips on keeping customer records, using thrums, weaving place mats two at a time, and advertising and pricing rugs. It also carries advertisements for Maysville Home Craft Yarn, Kentucky Lusterspun and All-Purpose Rayon yarns, and a feature on a homemade loom.
Shuttle (Spring 1956)
Shuttle (Spring 1956)
Shuttle, Spring 1956
Periodical · 8 pages · weaving drafts
Spring 1956 issue of The Shuttle, a promotional newsletter from January & Wood Company of Maysville, Kentucky, for Maysville carpet warp, rug filler and yarns. It profiles hand weavers, mostly rag-rug makers, who won ribbons at 1955 state fairs, and lists Maysville Guild winners by state. It includes Alice K. Cripps's "Odds and Ends" pattern, which combines double-sleyed natural warp stripes with single-sleyed colored sections for rugs, bath mats and place mats, along with a short explanation of tabby weaving for two-harness weavers.
Shuttle (Spring 1962)
Shuttle (Spring 1962)
Shuttle, Spring 1962
Periodical · 25 pages · weaving drafts
Spring 1962 issue of Shuttle, a booklet-format newsletter for rug and hand weavers, apparently produced for Maysville warp and filler users. It opens with Alice K. Cripps's article on the Norwegian way of using Monk's Belt borders, with treadling samplers and patterns A to E, followed by the Cripps 'Partnership Pattern', a 2-harness rug threading with borders for state fair entries. The rest is reader letters, questions and answers, sewing rug strips together, photos of weavers and prize-winning rugs, a story of a widow who built her own loom, and a striped warp called the Kansas web.
Shuttle (Spring 1963)
Shuttle (Spring 1963)
Shuttle, Spring 1963
Periodical · 31 pages · weaving drafts
Spring 1963 issue of The Shuttle, a newsletter from the January and Wood Co. of Maysville, Kentucky, aimed at rug weavers on 2- and 4-harness looms. Alice K. Cripps urges weavers to use up leftover warp, filler, old hose, towels, and clothing, with ten photographed rug and bag samples and notes on shuttles, colors, and fillers. It also gives a "Color Conscious" all-colored warp pattern with sectional warping figures, and Leonard K. Oliver's directions for waffle weave on a two-harness loom using a dowel and three sheds. Reader letters cover loop fringes, tearing and joining rags, hose rugs, centering the reed, and weaving tips, with profiles of weavers such as Rev. Ryan, Alex Porter, and Mrs. Rousseau.
Shuttle (Spring 1964)
Shuttle (Spring 1964)
Shuttle, Spring 1964
Periodical · 30 pages · weaving drafts
Spring 1964 issue of The Shuttle, a house periodical of the January & Wood Co. of Maysville, Kentucky, makers of Maysville carpet warp. It is dedicated to Raymond and Alice Cripps and gives two rug patterns by them: a two-harness 'Colorful Combination' pattern in white rug yarn and colored carpet warp sections, and a four-harness 'Work Together' pattern that combines the 'Goose Eye' threading with a four-color design. The patterns come with threadings, treadling notes, and photographs of rugs, bags, an apron, a mat and a pot-holder. The rest of the issue is reader letters from weavers in the US and Canada about rag rug weaving, looms, selling rugs, edge problems, thrums and weaving instruction, followed by a notice about the Cripps shuttles and company advertising.
Shuttle, Vol. VIII, No. 1 (March 1941)
Shuttle, Vol. VIII, No. 1 (March 1941)
Shuttle, March 1941
Periodical · 8 pages · weaving drafts
March 1941 issue of The Shuttle, a house organ for members of the Maysville Guild of Home Weavers, published by January & Wood Co. of Maysville, Ky. It promotes Maysville cotton carpet warp and rug filler and the Guild label, and gives advice on selling handwoven rugs through newspapers, local merchants, county fairs, tea rooms and roadside displays. It includes profiles of Guild weavers (Miss Dolores Mescher, Mrs. Nancy Aitken, Mrs. Edna Mae Betscher, Carl Bergman) and a tapestry woven on a four-harness loom with a threading diagram for a "goose eye" pattern.
Shuttle, Vol. VIII, No. 2 (Autumn 1940)
Shuttle, Vol. VIII, No. 2 (Autumn 1940)
Shuttle, Autumn 1940
Periodical · 9 pages · weaving drafts
Autumn 1940 issue of The Shuttle, a house magazine for the Maysville Guild of Home Weavers, published by January & Wood Co. of Maysville, Kentucky, makers of Maysville Warp and Filler. It includes Nellie Sargent Johnson's instructions for weaving fringed pick-up mats and pot holders on 2-harness looms, and Dolores B. Mescher's threading and treadling instructions for thirteen Swedish-style stripes on four harnesses. Other pages show guild members' rug and coverlet displays, short profiles of weavers, and a note on two tapestry techniques (interlocking and diagonal) with a diagram. Much of the content promotes Maysville Warp.
Shuttle, Vol. VIII, No. IV (c. 1940-1941)
Shuttle, Vol. VIII, No. IV (c. 1940-1941)
Shuttle, c. 1940-1941
Periodical · 9 pages · weaving drafts
Mid-winter holiday issue (1940-1941) of The Shuttle, a house magazine for members of the Maysville Guild of Home Weavers, published by January & Wood Co. of Maysville, Kentucky. It includes Nellie Sargent Johnson's article on luncheon sets and place mats woven of carpet warp and Soft Spun cotton, with warp color orders, sett, and pick-up border diagrams. The rest is member letters with photographs of hand-woven rugs, one giving a Kersey twill rug threading, plus editorial pieces on the Guild, holiday sales, and a picked-up place mat design.
Shuttle, Vol. X, No. 1 (January 1942)
Shuttle, Vol. X, No. 1 (January 1942)
Shuttle, January 1942
Periodical · 8 pages
January 1942 issue of The Shuttle, a house magazine for members of the Maysville Guild of Home Weavers, published by January & Wood Co. of Maysville, Kentucky, makers of Maysville Warp and Rug Filler. It includes an account of backstrap-loom weaving by Guatemalan Indian women, letters and photographs from guild weavers who exhibited and sold rugs at state and county fairs, and wartime promotional articles urging members to weave 200 square yards of rugs each in 1942 to replace Japanese imports. It also offers selling advice and announces a cash prize contest.
Shuttle, Vol. X, No. 3 (c. 1942)
Shuttle, Vol. X, No. 3 (c. 1942)
Shuttle, c. 1942
Periodical · 8 pages
June 1942 issue of The Shuttle, a house newsletter for members of the Maysville Guild of Home Weavers, published by Jordan & Wood Co. of Maysville, Kentucky, makers of Maysville carpet warp and rug filler. It covers wartime demand for hand-woven cotton-warp floor coverings, advice to stock up on warp and filler, profiles of prize-winning rag-rug weavers, and guidance on pricing rugs per yard. It also reports on rugs woven by girls on the Tulalip Indian Reservation and on a former factory worker who built a custom weaving business in Minnesota. There are no weaving drafts; the issue is illustrated with photographs of weavers and their rugs.
Shuttle, Vol. X, No. 4 (September 1942)
Shuttle, Vol. X, No. 4 (September 1942)
Shuttle, September 1942
Periodical · 8 pages
September 1942 issue of The Shuttle, a house magazine for members of the Maysville Guild of Home Weavers, published by January & Wood Co. of Maysville, Ky., makers of Maysville Warp and Filler. It profiles individual rag-rug weavers across the US with photographs, and includes letters, advice on getting established, pricing, displaying and selling rugs, and warp supply during wartime. Articles stress weaving as a profitable home business, with income figures and wartime context.
Shuttle, Vol. X, No. 5 (c. 1942-1943)
Shuttle, Vol. X, No. 5 (c. 1942-1943)
Shuttle, c. 1942-1943
Periodical · 8 pages
Holiday issue (December 1942) of The Shuttle, a house magazine for members of the Maysville Guild of Home Weavers, published by January & Wood Co. of Maysville, Kentucky, makers of Maysville Warp. It contains a meditation on the loom as a symbol of life, the editor's mailbox with photographs and letters from rag-rug weavers, tips such as a method for cutting stockings into rug strips, and wartime pieces urging scrap collection. A piece by guild president Robert N. Adair blames Japanese floor-covering imports for hurting home weavers, and the issue ends with an article on cotton in the war effort.
Shuttle, Vol. XII, No. 1 (c. 1945)
Shuttle, Vol. XII, No. 1 (c. 1945)
Shuttle, c. 1945
Periodical · 8 pages
November 1945 issue of The Shuttle, the house magazine of the Maysville Guild of Home Weavers, published by January & Wood Co. of Maysville, Kentucky, makers of Maysville carpet warp and rug filler. It announces the return of the products after wartime shortages and prints photographs and letters from guild weavers across the United States, including elderly weavers and rug prize winners. The last page answers a reader's question about joining the free guild. The content is promotional and shows the home rug-weaving trade just after World War II.
Shuttle, Vol. XII, No. 12 (Autumn 1946)
Shuttle, Vol. XII, No. 12 (Autumn 1946)
Shuttle, Autumn 1946
Periodical · 16 pages
Autumn 1946 issue of The Shuttle, a house magazine that January & Wood Co. of Maysville, Kentucky published for the Maysville Guild of Home Weavers. It opens with an editorial on rising cotton and living costs, with advice on pricing handwoven rugs (15-20% materials mark-up plus a fair hourly wage). Most of the issue is state-by-state photographs and short testimonials from Guild rug weavers across the US, praising Maysville carpet warp and rug filler after postwar production resumed. It also profiles a California couple who draft original patterns. It contains no weaving drafts.
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