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The Shuttle Service (Creative Crafts), Vol. IV, No. 2 (February 1939)
The Shuttle Service (Creative Crafts), Vol. IV, No. 2 (February 1939)
Periodical · 3 pages · weaving drafts
February 1939 issue of the Creative Crafts leaflet series from Howell, Michigan. Page 1 has an editorial section with a weaving poem by Ann Campbell, a note on the growing popularity of handweaving, a report on rug weaving opportunities as Japanese cotton rug imports fell, and an announcement of the 1939 National Conference of American Handweavers. Page 2 gives instructions for weaving a honeycomb-technique purse or vase mat on an overshot-style draft, with warp plan, materials and treadling. Page 3 gives a striped or plaid warp plan for kitchen or cottage curtains in cotton, with color sequences and thread counts.
The Shuttle Service (Creative Crafts), Vol. IV, No. 3 (March 1939)
The Shuttle Service (Creative Crafts), Vol. IV, No. 3 (March 1939)
Periodical · 4 pages · weaving drafts
March 1939 issue of The Shuttle Service, a bulletin from Creative Crafts in Howell, Michigan. It announces the renamed weaving school, the new block-printed cover, equipment for card weaving, inkle and Finnweave, and the 1939 National Conference of American Handweavers at Waldenwoods, led by Mary Meigs Atwater. It includes two instruction leaflets: raffia and carpet-warp porch mats, pillows and bags (Leaflet 1101), and honeycomb-technique bedspread panels with a draft and warp plans (Leaflet 918).
The Shuttle Service (Creative Crafts), Vol. IV, No. 4 (April 1939)
The Shuttle Service (Creative Crafts), Vol. IV, No. 4 (April 1939)
Periodical · 7 pages · weaving drafts
April 1939 issue of The Shuttle Service, a bulletin from Creative Crafts of Howell, Michigan. It opens with a poem, "The Song of the Loom," by Anne Campbell, and announcements of the second National Conference of American Handweavers (led by Mary Meigs Atwater) and a loom and textile exhibit at Radio City, New York. The rest is three pattern leaflets with drafts, warp and weaving plans: Russian Texture Stitch with a knotted fringe finish (No. 1400), the Whig Rose pattern with a three-panel bedspread plan (No. 903), and a Swedish linen doily in M's and O's (No. 1602). Each leaflet appears twice in the scan, once as a front side and once as a second copy.
The Shuttle Service (Creative Crafts), Vol. IV, No. 8 (c. 1939-1940)
The Shuttle Service (Creative Crafts), Vol. IV, No. 8 (c. 1939-1940)
Periodical · 5 pages · weaving drafts
Issue of a monthly weavers' bulletin from Cromaine Crafts in Hartland, Michigan. It offers news of weavers and clubs, notices of Conference of American Handweavers sample folios, and three pattern leaflets: the small overshot 'Waldenweave' by Bertha Hayes, a Wheel-of-Fortune coverlet/bedspread pattern for a 32-inch loom, and instructions for piecing weft threads. Threading, tie-up and treadling plans and warp specifications are included.
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