Monthly archive of the WeaveTech mailing list for April 1999, consisting of email messages with full headers from list members. Discussions include access to the online copy of Cyrus Uhler's 1830 weaving book (PDF and page images) and how to interpret its tie-ups and threadings, weaving software and algebraic draft entry, fly shuttles and AVL looms, beating, sectional warping and spool racks, and measuring warp yardage. Other threads cover chenille, kuvikas/taquete, incorporating crocheted lace into weaving, photographing work for juries, a napkin exchange and miscellaneous announcements.

A month of postings (about April 1-30, 2000) from the WeaveTech email discussion list, as archived in Topica digest format with full mail headers. Threads cover three-shaft weaving, leno and Peruvian gauzes, triaxial weaving, sectional warping and lease cords, AVL looms, dobby loom books, beads in weaving, graph paper software, card/tablet weaving take-up, Bonnie Inouye's new book, and copying versus original designs. Also includes equipment sales, requests for help, and list administration. Pages 85-87 contain encoded binary attachment data rather than readable text.

A compilation of WeaveTech email list digests (issues roughly 718 to 775) covering April 2001, preserved as raw email text with headers. Discussions among handweavers cover computer-driven looms (Macs with AVL Compudobby), fly shuttles, picker sticks and shuttle behavior, weaving and warping linen (Bronson lace, huck lace, humidity, sett), warping wheels and tying on with the cross, loom types and the perfect loom, drawlooms, double-width double weave, and air filters for studios. Threads also cover Doris Goerner's Woven Structure and Design books (with the foreword and preface posted), CIETA textile vocabularies, and book and equipment sales.

A monthly archive of the WeaveTech email discussion list for August 1999, preserved as raw messages with mail headers. Threads cover AVL looms (labeling heddle bars, selvedge reels, air compressors and air-assisted lifts, 24-shaft compu-dobby purchases, measuring on an AVL), troubleshooting a Cyrefco CompuMarche, and weaving software such as ProWeave and Fiberworks. Other discussions concern deflected double weave terminology and the final issue of Weaver's magazine, handweaver versus industrial weave nomenclature, weaving linen, hemp and wet-spun flax yarn, doup heddles, crossed warp tubes, Lycra, rolled selvedges and what makes someone a weaver. A few pages contain text-based weaving drafts or diagrams.

Archive of the WeaveTech email discussion list for August 2000, consisting of Topica digest issues (roughly 332 to 369) with messages from list members. Topics include AVL dobby looms and their computer interfaces, sectional beams, Macomber looms and Texsolv tie-ups, selling handwovens and studio tours, thread count, Ashenhurst's sett formula, pick glasses, rug looms, long-repeat designs, skeleton tie-ups on countermarche looms, and buying books online. Jane Eisenstein announces a web-based multi-weft double weave drafting program. Several pages near the end contain base64-encoded email attachments rather than readable text.

Archive of the WeaveTech email discussion list for August 2001, consisting of daily Topica digests (roughly issues 936 to 978) with message headers and threaded replies. Topics include the TC-1 computerized Jacquard loom, whether to start an online weaving magazine, warp length and yarn yardage calculations, fan-shaped reeds, painting long warps, AVL auto-advance and warping wheel questions, chenille weaving, and handwoven garment patterns. Later digests cover list administration, the move from Topica to Yahoo Groups, and copyright concerns about Yahoo's terms of service.

A compiled archive of the WeaveTech email discussion list for December 1998, made up of mailing-list messages and digest issues. Threads cover temples and stretchers (width holders, foam tip protectors, fly shuttles), weaving with sewing thread and chenille in thick-and-thin warps, Jacquard versus dobby looms, AVL loom treadle mechanics and adjustments, polychrome crackle, weaving on opposites, samitum and taquete, warp tangles and warping methods, fulling, fine warps, and teaching or recipe-based learning. One page contains a weaving draft; most of the content is conversational Q&A among hand weavers and textile professionals.

Archive of the WeaveTech mailing list for December 1999, reproduced as raw email messages with full headers. Threads cover handloom versus power loom production and mill technology, double two-tie threading, sectional warping and warp tensioning (spools, cones, tension boxes, very long warps), the meaning of a weave structure and named weaves, honeycomb on overshot, lampas, and Convergence plans. Also includes business and etiquette topics such as email response times and textile design copyright. One page holds a twill tie-up for an 8-shaft, 10-treadle two-tie unit threading, and one holds an ASCII diagram of tensioning rods.

A compilation of WeaveTech mailing list digests (Topica issues 528 to 564) covering December 2000. The messages are informal discussions among hand weavers, including handloom weaving in an industrial context, books such as the Goerner draft books and Keasbey's Designing with Blocks, and looms and equipment (Louet Megado, AVL, Jim Ahrens looms, linen testers, a tiny powerloom). Long threads cover marketing and advertising handwoven goods, postcards, craft shows and digital cameras, along with announcements of Andean textile tours and workshops with Ed Franquemont, an exhibition on women textile designers, and an obituary for loom builder Jim Ahrens.

Archive of the WeaveTech email discussion list for February 1999, reproduced as raw messages with full mail headers. Topics include co-op galleries and selling work, shrinkage of rayon yarn, computer-driven dobby and J-Comp looms, fly shuttles and beaters, the Macomber sliding shuttle, huck lace, lace weave color effects, whiter silk, African strip weaving, dimity, and mommy measurement of fine yarns. It also includes list administration notices, a notice of a death in the dyeing community, the Vav conference, and rules for the Third Annual Non-Holiday Serviette (Napkin) Exchange. Only one page has a weaving draft, in text form.

A compiled archive of WeaveTech mailing list digests (Topica issues roughly 60 to 105) from February 1-27, 2000, preserved as raw email text with headers. Weavers discuss dust control and computers near looms, AVL looms (auto advance, compu-dobby, sectional beams), shuttles and yarn tension, yarn twist and floating selvedges, temples and draw-in, advancing twills, finishing silk, bleaching wool and dye runs, copyright, and a computer virus warning. Several pages contain encoded binary attachment data rather than readable text.

Archive of the WeaveTech email discussion list for February 2001, consisting of daily Topica digests (issues 635 to 672) with the full text of member messages. Topics include skein winders versus swifts, dye skein handling, sectional warping and the AVL warping wheel, long warps, workshop table looms and the Master Weaver loom, computer-assisted dobby for a Macomber loom, tying a countermarche loom as a jack loom, selvedges, color theory, metallic thread, sleying, and travel and wool sources. Some pages are corrupted by encoded attachments, and there are no weaving drafts.

Archive of the WeaveTech mailing list messages for January 1999, compiled as a digest of email posts with headers. Threads cover chenille yarn and its worming problem, using summer and winter as a thick-and-thin structure, fly shuttles and multi-box shuttle systems, shuttle and race lubrication, AVL and Compudobby loom control software, computer-driven looms, Y2K concerns, Elizabeth Wayland Barber's lectures and books, adjustable loom benches, dukagang definitions, and a napkin exchange. No weaving drafts are present, though a GIF of a draft (Speck's Snailtrail) is mentioned.

A compiled archive of the WeaveTech email discussion list as distributed through Topica digests, running from the list's first test messages on 21 December 1999 through digest issue 59 at the end of January 2000. The list handles practical handweaving questions: warping and threading techniques, loom problems (AVL, Macomber, Louet, Megado), sleying, tying on, linen warps, color, weaving software, and double weave. The digests also contain list administration notices, Topica registration messages, and some unrelated Topica newsletter content such as Y2K and sports commentary.

A compilation of the WeaveTech email discussion list for January 2001, made up of Topica digests (issues 565 to about 630) with about 50 threads listed in the page overview. Topics include AVL warping wheels and their assembly, sectional warping, AVL dobby looms, air assist, ratchet brakes, dobby bars and threading with a dobby, block and unit weaves, warping drums, weaving with handspun, natural dyes and dyeing skeins, travel and textiles, and book recommendations such as Luther Hooper's Hand-Loom Weaving. Two pages (193-194) give threading and treadling notation in text form for diversified plain weave. Much of the text is email headers, quoted replies and list administration.

A compiled archive of the WeaveTech mailing list e-mail digest for July 1999, with message headers and replies from list members. Topics include the AVL bobbin-winding guide, drawloom makers (Glimakra, Myrehed, Oxaback), buying a used Macomber loom, AVL auto advance and pick-per-inch calculations, compu-dobby looms, tied weaves, double weave lace, and 16-shaft tie-ups. Other threads cover guild master-weaver ratings programs and their exclusion of computers, care labeling in the US, an online weaving journal, genetic algorithms, and weaving in the movies. One draft appears on a single page.

Compilation of WeaveTech mailing list digest emails from July 2000 (issues roughly 283 to 331), archived as raw email text with headers. Discussion centers on the Convergence 2000 conference in Cincinnati: evaluations, costs, food events, fashion shows, HGA management, teacher compensation, and using college campuses as venues. Other threads cover AVL looms and warping wheel, CompuDobby maintenance, a warp beam problem with advice from Peter Collingwood, cashmere yarn sources and yarn count conversions, a damaged double-weave coverlet, left-handed weavers, and equipment for sale. Several pages are base64-encoded attachment data rather than readable text.

A compilation of WeaveTech mailing list digests for July 2001 (Topica digest issues roughly 875 to 935), preserved as raw email text with headers. Threads cover handweaving equipment and technique: low-cost yarn tensioning devices, air compressors for AVL air-assist looms, brocade and weft brocade definitions, friction brakes and let-off systems, rolled and twisted fringes, Macomber loom tie-ups, reed shortening, jacquard mechanisms and computerized dobby/jacquard systems, and weft-faced weaving. Also includes miscellaneous posts on selling surplus equipment, books, websites, and fiber art. The content is informal discussion with no weaving drafts.

Monthly archive of the WeaveTech email discussion list for June 1999, preserved as raw email messages with full headers. Threads cover industrial and electric pirn/bobbin winders, shuttle waxing and end-feed shuttles, automating handweaving with industrial equipment, learning and skill levels among weavers, selling cloth and copying of designs, AVL looms and computer dobby controls, the Weftalk site and weaving magazines, web resources for weavers, lampas and double weave, Peruvian discontinuous interlocking warp textiles, drawlooms, and a napkin exchange. Participants include Allen Fannin, Laura Fry, Jane Eisenstein, Su Butler, Pat Williams and Ralph Griswold.

A collection of WeaveTech mailing list digests (Topica) from June 2000, preserved as raw email archives with headers. Threads cover weaving software (WeaveIt, Proweave, tabby setup, drawdown methods), sectional warping, tying on or twisting on new warps, chenille yarns, table runner dimensions, loom ergonomics and loom boxes, countermarche counterweights, and digital cameras for fiber photography. Also includes announcements for the Norwegian weaving conference and exhibition in Seattle (2001), Convergence logistics, and the launch of the WeaveScene e-magazine.

Archive of the WeaveTech mailing list for June 2001, made up of Topica digest issues (roughly 821 to 874) with messages from list members. Topics include weaving for sale and pricing, powered looms and the AVL fly shuttle, warping wheels, Macomber loom tie-ups, alternative reed materials, the Rocker-Beater loom, commissions and proposals, Convergence 2002 and the HGA, and a computer worm that circulated on the list. Members also share what they are weaving, including Summer & Winter and twill samplers. Ralph Griswold posts a request for missing diagram pages from Mary Meigs Atwater's 1923 Shuttle-Craft Course. The text is email only, with no weaving drafts.

Monthly archive of the WeaveTech mailing list for March 1999, an email discussion forum for intermediate and advanced weavers, reproduced as raw messages with full headers. Threads cover overhead versus underslung beaters, sett for 20/2 cotton, structure ideas for baby blankets with cotton chenille, weaving software and fabric analysis, drawloom and damask units, mill weaving versus handweaving terminology, loom sales, space dyeing, garment sizing, and book requests such as Practical Loom Fixing. A few messages include weaving drafts, and the issue also has list-administration notices and an announcement for a sheep and fiber farm tour.

A month of WeaveTech mailing-list traffic (March 2000), compiled from Topica digest issues roughly 106 to 155. Weavers discuss practical questions: bleaching and fugitive dye in wool, sett for fine silk and linen, electric bobbin winders and sectional warping, jack loom shaft adjustment, AVL loom problems (benches, auto cloth advance, dobby), merino/steel yarn, WIF files and software, painted and dipped warps, leno doups, and nuno scarves. Other threads cover Peter Collingwood's nuno books, PDF files on Ralph Griswold's site, Newcomb looms, copyright, and sheep and wool festival notices. The pages are plain-text email with headers and no weaving drafts.

A month of WeaveTech mailing-list digests (roughly issues 673 to 710) from March 2001, preserved as raw email text with headers. Topics include deflected double weave terminology and changing the weaver's lexicon, loom problems (Macomber shed and bumpers, Louet Magic Dobby, AVL dobby, fly shuttles and short reeds, Thought Products Cassandra wiring), warping and tying on, chenille scarf fringes, handspun versus other yarns and fabric drape, and Jacquard design software. A long thread covers declining guild membership and how guilds manage dues, workshops and programs. There are also conference announcements (Midwest 2001, ASCH), ergonomics, and subscription administration notes.

Archive of the WeaveTech mailing list for May 1999, reproduced as raw email messages with full headers. Threads cover spool racks and creels, yardage counters and slippage, electric cone and bobbin winders, AVL dobby looms and CompuDobby connection problems, fly shuttles and end-feed shuttles, leno selvages on shuttleless looms, and bowed filling and temples. Other discussions include Ralph Griswold's reaction to the English translation of Masson & Roussel's book on shaft weaving and graph design, a report on the Symmetry and Textiles conference at the University of Wisconsin, a long post on fiber use in the Pacific Islands, and details of a napkin exchange.

A compilation of WeaveTech mailing list digests (issues 203 onward) from May 2000, preserved as email text with headers. Discussions cover copyright and crediting traditional designs such as Whig Rose, electronic fly shuttles (EFS) and shuttle handling, AVL floating heddle problems, the AVL warping wheel, solenoid firing problems on computer-driven looms, and beating technique including advice recalled from Ethel Mairet via Peter Collingwood. Other threads cover repetitive strain injury and carpal tunnel syndrome, small multi-harness looms, Bonnie Inouye's book Exploring Multishaft Design, list virus policy, Convergence plans, and equipment for sale. No weaving drafts are included.

An archive of the WeaveTech email discussion list for May 2001, made up of Topica digest issues (roughly 775 to 815) as raw email text. Threads cover linen sett and denting, auto advance and double width double weave, sectional warping and multiple back beams, weighting warps, tape for reeds, winders, silk and spider-silk goats, and small travel looms such as the LeClerc Voyageur. A long thread on "Looming thoughts" discusses running a weaving business, pricing, and competing with machine production, with references to Allen Fannin's column. Also includes book notices (Otfried Staudigel's tablet weaving book, tartan books, Pattern and Loom), supplier complaints, and workshop announcements.

Archive of the WeaveTech email discussion list for November 1998, compiled from daily digests (roughly volume 1, numbers 48 to 88). Topics include Jacquard loom design and vocabulary, doubleweave and weaving software (ProWeave, Fiberworks PCW), polychrome and multi-shaft crackle, diversified plain weave, AVL loom warping and back-to-front issues, tying on warps, color and value in warps, new fibers such as modal and Tencel, Complex Weavers study groups, and a Japanese textile exhibit. It is text-only correspondence with no weaving drafts.

Monthly archive of the WeaveTech email discussion list for November 1999, reproduced as raw messages with mail headers. Threads include sewing and warping with chenille yarn, static electricity in silk warps, long-eyed heddles, and a long debate over whether power looms and dobby or computerized looms count as handloom weaving. Other topics are warp tension on AVL looms, Ashenhurst's formula, warping and tie-up methods, combining ground and pattern shafts, a textile bibliography, the TSA 2000 symposium call, and an article on CAD designer salaries. There are also announcements and book notices, including Tejido Huave and Double Two-Tie Unit Weave.

A month of WeaveTech mailing list digests (Topica issues from 1 to 29 November 2000) collected as email text. Threads cover chenille dyeing, tracking, worming and fringe twisting, rag rugs and double-width weaving, sectional warping, fractals and mathematically generated drafts, AVL CompuDobby and Macomber loom problems, countermarche tie-ups, sticking shafts, and damask selvedges and shuttles. Also included are book recommendations (Becker's Pattern and Loom), Harris Tweed weavers, possum fibre from New Zealand, and a squared-square puzzle. Only a few drafts appear, as ASCII or HTML-garbled text.

Archive of the WeaveTech mailing list digests for October 1998 (Volume 1, roughly issues 1 to 43), compiled from the Majordomo file weavetech.9810. The messages are e-mail discussions among handweavers about computer-assisted and dobby looms (AVL, Louet Megado, LeClerc), networked and advancing twills, sectional warping, dummy warps, yardage and revolution counters, and laptops for loom control. Other threads cover whether fiber art on the edge counts as art, music and weaving, variegated yarns, pebble weave, and many member self-introductions. Two pages contain simple text-based drafts, including a pebble weave scrap pattern.

A monthly archive of the WeaveTech email discussion list for October 1999, reproducing the messages with their mail headers. The sampled threads cover the debate over whether textiles are art or science and the pursuit of technical excellence, judging and juror practice at shows, standards committees and pricing of handwoven goods, and a lecture tour by Peruvian weaver Nilda Callañaupa. Other threads cover summer and winter, fine linen on a table loom, reed dents per inch, tracking and yarn twist, nylon, flat steel and Texsolv heddles, threading a drawloom, the Peter Collingwood retrospective at The Textile Museum, and loom-for-sale and website announcements. There are no weaving drafts; the content is conversational text.

Archive of the WeaveTech email discussion list for October 2000, compiled from daily Topica digests (issues 441 to 485). Topics include selling from a home studio and pricing handwoven work, AVL looms and accessories, the Baby Wolf loom, moving a loom, inkle looms and the definition of rep, weaving with chenille and worming problems, Swedish weaving books, Jamtland weaving, and the HGA Certificate of Excellence examination. Also covered are warping wheels, leno selvedges, waffle weave, double-width rag rugs, buying and selling weaving magazines, and Palm-based dobby software. It is a text-only record of list messages with no weaving drafts.

Archive of WeaveTech mailing list digests from late September 1998 (volume 1, numbers 1-3), the first days of the list. Discussion covers sources for very fine threads (cotton, silk, linen, wool, rayon), dyeing fine warps, a yards-per-pound calculation for the McMorran balance, whether a stripe can be called a block, non-unit weaves, choosing a wide loom with warp separators and sectional warping, and a copyright proposal.

Monthly archive of the WeaveTech email discussion list for September 1999, consisting of threaded messages among handweavers, loom owners and weaving-software users. Topics include sources for reeds and raddles, AVL looms and air assist, bobbin winders, pick and yardage counters, warp beaming on sectional beams, rigid heddle looms, fabric terminology, and a new book on Tejido Huave pick-up weaving. The messages retain full email headers and list administration notices.

A compilation of WeaveTech mailing list digests (Topica issues 370 to 440) covering September 2000. The messages are informal discussions among handweavers on equipment (an AVL loom for sale, warping wheels, sectional warping, knots in warp, fly-shuttle and rapier handlooms, drawlooms), the Libas v. United States Customs case on distinguishing hand-loomed from power-loomed cloth, the pricing of handwoven goods, and Japanese woven textiles, shibori and iridescent or changeant fabrics. There are also posts on dyeing with chestnuts, sampling and round robins, and a CAD series piece on artists and artisans. Several pages are raw base64 attachment data, and no weaving drafts are included.

A 67-page table of contents for the WeaveTech email discussion list archive, listing message subject lines by month (starting with weavetech.9812 and covering 9809 through about 2000-2001). It is an index of thread titles only, not message text. Recurring threads cover AVL looms and their adjustment, fly shuttles, stretchers and temples, sewing thread and fine warps, chenille, polychrome crackle, "On Opposites", sectional warping, Jacquard design, drawlooms, Watson's Textile Design and Color, Uhler's manuscript, fulling, and handweaving versus power looms.

A one-page directory listing of the WeaveTech mailing list archive files. It lists monthly archive files from September 1998 (weavetech.9809) through December 1999 (weavetech.9912), plus CONTENTS and TOPICS index files, with file sizes and modification dates. It contains no weaving content itself and serves only as an index to the archive's monthly volumes.

An alphabetical subject index to the WeaveTech email discussion list archive, covering monthly digests from roughly September 1998 to December 1999. Each thread subject line is paired with the archive file (weavetech.YYMM) in which it appears. Topics include AVL looms and dobbies, advancing twills, chenille, lampas and beiderwand, handloom versus powerloom, sectional warping, drawlooms, temples and stretchers, care labeling, and list administration.