A bound run of twelve monthly 'Threadbenders' news sheets (January to December 1950) issued by the Shuttle-Craft Guild of Virginia City, Montana, written by Harriet Tidball. They carry Guild news, summer teaching plans, veterans' training, book and supplier notes, local guild organization, and a list of Canadian sources. Weaving content includes Ruth Templeton's linen table mats on an Overshot-derived draft, laid-in designs on a mesh-weave threading, and pot holder directions (Log Cabin and double woven). A list of available Shuttle-Craft Guild Bulletins from 1937 to 1949 is also included.

Five issues of the Shuttle Craft Guild's Threadbenders column/newsletter (January, February, March, July and November 1951), written by Harriet Douglas Tidball. They cover Guild news, supply and price changes for yarns, a survey of small handweaver guild periodicals, a list of back Bulletins, a bobbin winder recommendation, studio activities in Virginia City, Montana, a review of Gertrude Greer's Adventures in Weaving, and the announced new Shuttle Craft Bulletin format for 1952. No weaving drafts are included.

A collection of 1952 Threadbenders newsletter sheets from the Shuttle Craft Guild of Virginia City, Montana, issued by Harriet D. Tidball to Guild members. The January, February and May sheets cover the Handweaver's Bulletin, a curtain project with yarn prices, and a rise in Guild membership dues. The letters of August, September, November and December give news of suppliers, yarn sources, books, student certificates, exchange contacts, corrections to the Bulletin's weave classification and Christmas gift offers.

Monthly newsletters of the Shuttle Craft Guild (Virginia City, Montana, later Kelseyville, California) for 1953, written by Harriet Tidball to Guild members. They cover Guild business, publications, yarn and loom news, travel and workshop plans, and the September Seminar for experienced weavers. Other items include the announcement of The Weaver's Word Finder, the Bateman exhibit of new techniques and inkle belts, Mrs Atwater's birthday and the proposal to name the weave Atwater Lace, and the Guild's move to California. The issues contain no weaving drafts.

Monthly Threadbenders News Letter from the Shuttle Craft Guild (Kelseyville, California) for January through July 1954, the cover letters that accompanied the Guild's Bulletin. They report on the Ceylon Fund, which raised money for looms for Dr Edith Ludowyk's village weaving workshop, and on Guild business, instruction schedules and visitor policy. They also review and announce books, folios and yarn suppliers, including Mrs Atwater's Byways in Handweaving, Malin Selander's Vavmonster, and Mary Black's Handweavers' Reference. The issues include a Directory of Sources of yarns for handweavers, a note on the Bateman weaves and the Home Study Course.

A two-page June issue of the Threadbender Newsletter, a desk letter from Harriet Tidball to Shuttle Craft Guild members. It announces the new Shuttle Craft Guild Home Study Course in Handweaving, a four-course series of ten lessons each (beginners, basic, advanced, master weaver), with prices, an introductory package offer, and the companion books Handweaving Foundations and Handweaver's Instruction Manual. It also reports on the delayed rewriting of the Twill and Tartan material, the return of assistant Wilma Widener, a Mexico City weaving studio invitation, a weavers' tour of Mexico, and summer weaving courses.