A short instructional article on basket weave (2:2, 3:3 and 4:4) from the Master Weaver series. It explains how basket weave relates to tabby and twill, offers guidance on warp sett, and describes three ways of handling the multiple parallel weft picks: one shuttle, several numbered shuttles, or a threading with tabby edges. It also covers beating rhythm and the 50:50 balance of the fabric, illustrated with drafts for four shafts.

Two pages from The Textile Mercury of 22 November 1890 (pp. 356-357) with the weekly 'Designing' column on worsted and woollen cloth designs. It gives Designs 201-204 with sett and yarn details, a sketch (Fig. A) showing a warp-striped hopsack and checking effect, and an Indian toilet cover design based on Hindu embroidery. Page 1 begins with unrelated financial news and a New York textile letter on the McKinley tariff.

March/April 1969 issue of The Looming Arts, a bi-monthly handweaving magazine published by Mary Pendleton in Sedona, Arizona. It features a 4-harness project for a 2-and-2 hopsack upholstery fabric with threading, tie-up, sleying and weaving directions, and an 8-harness multi-harness design for a wool and silk coat or afghan fabric with diamond and ribbon treadlings. The issue also includes the editor's column on weaving on leftover warp ends, a tip on using the reed hook with textured yarns, news of Tapestries West, yarn notices, studio news, and details of the 1969 Pendleton Fabric Craft School.

January 1954 issue of the handweaving magazine Warp & Weft (Vol. 7, No. 1). It reports on two traveling round robin exhibits of members' weavings, and gives a draft and instructions for a reinforced basket weave upholstery fabric with a wool weft and binder thread. Other items cover general basket weave theory, planning upholstery yardage, a three-shuttle rotation for better weaving rhythm, guild news, short tips and advertisements.

Portfolio Edition of the Shuttle Craft Guild Handweaver's Bulletin for May 1955, written by Harriet Tidball. It covers French spun worsted yarn (Lily Mills 2/16) and an 8-harness two-color combined tabby and 4-thread basket weave for sport coat fabrics and baby blankets, with five fabric designs, tie-up reasoning and a two-weft selvage method. It also gives a 4-harness color-effect twill for sport coats, a Royarn (Orlon) upholstery fabric, and a continuation of the "Understanding Drafts" series on the Graphic, Shorthand, Cursive, Profile and Working Profile drafts. It ends with the Threadbender letter about the Guild's students and subscriptions, and photographs of the four portfolio samples.

US Patent 5,293,906 (Suresh K. Amin, assigned to Quadrax Corporation, granted 15 March 1994) describes a circular loom and method for weaving fabric with ribbon-shaped weft, intended for fiber-reinforced plastic tapes. Warp sheds are formed by pneumatic air cylinders that a control system presets ahead of the rotating shuttles. Electrical brakes control warp and weft tension, a ring-shaped fabric-forming member produces tubular fabric, and the fabric is slit, pulled and wound on a take-up reel. The scan includes the USPTO web printout, the full specification, the claims and 12 sheets of drawings. These show mechanical assemblies, 5-harness and basket-weave pattern grids, control tables, a flowchart and a block diagram.

First article in a series on twills from Master Weaver, No. 67. It explains how 2:2 twill develops from 2:2 basket weave and describes the notation for float lengths (2/2, 3:1:1:2). It also covers twill classes: balanced, biased, reversible, warp-face and weft-face, and LH and RH diagonals. It lists reversible and non-reversible twills up to 8 shafts, warns about false twills, and suggests drawing down the listed twills as an exercise.

Workshop notes explaining how to weave double weave with both layers in 2/2 basket weave on an 8-shaft loom, using a straight draw threading with alternating dark and light warps. They show how the tieup or peg plan is developed, how the top and bottom layers are separated and drawn down, and how color-and-weave variations arise from different treadling orders and six peg plans. A final section extends the idea to a window (frame) design on 12 shafts, with plain weave and basket weave options, and shows other threadings including one suited to 3/3 basket weave.

An article from Posselt's Textile Journal on fancy twills with basket and granite effects, giving a construction rule and descriptions of Weave Figs. 1 to 25. Each weave is built on an 8-, 10-, 12- or 16-harness foundation twill, with basket or granite weaves filling the empty space between twill lines, and repeats are stated. The point-paper drafts appear on the second and third pages. The scan also includes the journal's trade mark directory and advertisements.

A single page from Posselt's Textile Journal (December 1920) with a short piece on steep twills or diagonals and basket effects. It describes four weave drafts: a 13-harness steep twill for worsted coatings and suitings, a 16-harness pin-check combining basket and broken twill, a broken steep twill repeating on 69 threads and 24 picks, and a stripe effect combining two steep twills on 88 threads and 22 picks. The page also carries unrelated trade news items.

A two-page article from Posselt's Textile Journal (February 1915) on building combination weaves that join a regular even-sided twill with its mate basket weave. It explains the construction rule and walks through six figures: three based on 4-harness twill and 2 by 2 basket, and three based on 6-harness twill and 3 by 3 basket. It discusses clear cut-off edges where twill and basket squares meet, repeat sizes, and how fancy drawing-in can reduce the harness count. Large drawdown diagrams accompany the text.

A two-page article from Master Weaver explaining how to move backing yarn from the weft to the warp by turning a draft 90 degrees, so threading becomes treadling and vice versa. This lets a backed fabric be woven with one shuttle and only four treadles. It covers practical warping problems (twisting of face and backing ends, sett, tension, threading with a weighted bunch) and the shaft count needed. Five drafts illustrate backed 2:2 basket weave and a Summer-and-Winter-like fabric.

An article from Posselt's Textile Journal (February 1912) on designing new weaves by combining broken twills with their mate basket weaves. It explains, figure by figure, how weave plans and motives are built on 4-harness twill and basket units, with repeats of 16, 32 and 48 threads, and gives drawing-in drafts for fancy draws on 8 to 20 harnesses. The scan ends with the start of a short piece on international counts of yarn, covering the metric count and American and English woolen, cotton and worsted counts.

A short article by Virginia Cole, a weaving instructor at Perkins Institution, describing how to weave small Christmas trees on a four-shaft twill and basket weave threading and use them on handmade greeting cards. It gives the warp (20/2 cotton, 15-dent reed), treadling for the hems, twill blocks and basket weave stripes, and the reversing twill treadling in nubbly green yarn that makes tree shapes. It also covers cutting and gluing the trees and making the envelope and card from deckle-edged paper. Drafts, a drawdown and layout diagrams are included.

Lesson 2 of a serialized textile design course from Textile World Record, covering rib and basket weaves derived from the plain weave. It explains warp-effect and filling-effect ribs (plain and fancy), plain and fancy basket weaves, and rib weaves with interwoven backs, stitched warp threads, and strengthening warps. It also covers figured rib weaves, warp and filling combinations, and corded effects with binder and figure warps. Numbered figures show drawdowns and fabric diagrams, and the lesson ends with exercises for students.

A 1928 article by Grace Corbett Reed describing a "raised" weave, an Italian-style treatment of Colonial overshot threadings. The pattern treadles are woven in order 1-2-3-4 with no tabby, using four shuttles in graded shades to give shaded vertical stripes that cover the warp. It gives three drafts (including a floor mat and a "Honeysuckle" baby blanket), sett and yarn recommendations, pattern border treadling directions and color number charts. A short second piece covers two-harness basket weaves in linen floss, with sett, treadling and color suggestions.

January 1953 issue of the Handweaver's Bulletin (Shuttle Craft Guild, Virginia City, Montana) with three technical articles. The first covers Combined weaves (tabby-and-basket, tabby-and-twill, twill-and-basket) and how to manage the uneven warp take-up they cause, including elastic warps, two warp beams, and makeshift tensioners. The second treats Broken Twills, including the Dornik herringbone, and the third covers Curved or Undulating Twills, with threading methods and tie-ups for 4 to 8 harnesses. Numbered drafts (1-25) are on two pages.

A single page from Posselt's Textile Journal, March 1921, describing four weave drawdowns for steep twills (diagonals) and basket effects, with repeat sizes and harness counts for worsted coatings and suitings. The page covers a 12-harness steep twill, a 16-harness pin-check combining basket and broken twill, a broken steep twill, and a stripe effect alternating two steep twills. The top of the page also carries the end of an unrelated article on mordants and logwood chrome black dyeing.

A lesson from the Terrace Textures series (Basic Project No. 2) on weaving baby blankets on a 4-harness loom. It gives general guidance on yarns, warp setts, colors, fringes, size allowances and warp yardage, then instructions for three blankets ("Lullabye," "Pompon," "Bunny Hug") with threading and treadling. It also includes four texture variations (A-D) with treadlings, and illustrated steps for binding blankets with mitred corners.

Two pages from Posselt's Textile Journal explaining how to build designs for worsted, cotton and silk fabrics by exchanging warp and filling effects of a foundation twill. It covers plain weave motives, fancy basket motives and figured effects, with weaves Figs. 1 to 17 giving repeat sizes and harness requirements. It is aimed at dress goods, shirtings and tie silks woven on dobby looms.

Roger Millen describes his experience weaving suiting fabric from Fabricspun, a domestic wool yarn, building on an earlier article by Howard C. Ford. He explains why he changed from a 30-ends-per-inch warp threaded double in a 15-dent reed to 22 ends per inch threaded single in a 22-dent reed, which gave a balanced basket weave and easier shed changes. He also covers warp knots, warping methods, weaving in the oil versus scoured, laundering and pressing, shrinkage, and weaving twill or herringbone on the same warp.

A 1903 trade-journal report from a special correspondent on novelty dress goods and suitings in the Bradford, England, market. It covers the 12-shaft Roxana weave in black goods, canvas/hopsack, Donegal tweeds, knickerbocker effects, Irish linen, mercerized crepon-type figured cloths, French seal ripple cloth, and silk-striped men's tweeds. It ends with notes on Cravenette and other rainproof finishing processes. Halftone swatch photographs illustrate several of the fabrics; no weaving drafts are shown.

A two-page item from Posselt's Textile Journal, November 1920. It gives descriptions of nine weave designs (Figs. 1-9) for men's trousering and suitings, with warp arrangements, repeat sizes, harness counts and chain bars for combinations of 2/2 twill, basket, granite, herringbone, plain and crepe weaves. The second page has short trade news items on the British Empire cotton-growing scheme, German chemical industries, the Macclesfield silk trade and the Piedmont cocoon market.

Issue of the monthly Warp & Weft bulletin from Robin & Russ Handweavers, McMinnville, Oregon. It features Paula Simmons's article on shearing sheep yourself, with advice on tools, positions, handling the fleece and worming, and a four-harness basket weave variation called Dancing Waves for suiting and coat fabric in worsted and wool nub yarns, with threading, tie-up, treadling, and costs. It also has a review of Gertrud Ingers's Flemish Weaving, a list of eight books published or distributed by Robin & Russ, classified ads for yarns and books, and advertisements from loom and yarn suppliers.

Volume 8 (September 1965 to June 1966) of the monthly newsletter Drafts and Designs, published by Robin & Russ Handweavers of McMinnville, Oregon, as a guide for 5 to 12 harness weaves. Each of the ten issues presents one fabric sample with complete weaving instructions: threading draft, tie-up, treadling sequence, yarns and colors, reed and sleying, and in some issues finishing notes and cost of materials. Fabrics include a 6-harness basket weave, shadow weaves, a Finnish-named Summer and Winter, 6-harness piqué, extended point twill, 8-harness silk basket weave, double huck lace, a 6-harness patchwork weave and a 10-harness Swedish honeycomb.

June 1982 issue of Warp and Weft, the monthly bulletin of Robin & Russ Handweavers (McMinnville, Oregon), edited by Russel E. Groff. It features a handwoven point-twill blouse with crocheting that won an HGA Judges Choice award, a review of Peter Collingwood's The Techniques of Tablet Weaving, and a heavy German rug wool rug woven on a 1-2-3-4 twill threading with plain weave. The sample project is a brown English wool tweed for a sport jacket, woven on a basket-weave threading with three twill variations in the treadling. It gives a threading draft, 6- and 12-treadle tie-ups, sectional warping notes, and cost per yard. The rest is classified and display advertising for yarns, looms and books.

May 1953 issue of the Shuttle Craft Guild Handweaver's Bulletin, edited by Harriet Tidball. It discusses plain (tabby) weave and 2-, 3- and 4-thread basket weave, drawing on the Swiss booklet Einschaftige Leinenbindungen, and gives color-and-weft arrangements for 2-harness threadings. It also covers a drapery and bedspread set, warp settings for a new fine 4-run woolen yarn from the Coffin Sheep Company, a fund drive to buy a loom for Dr. Edith Ludowyk-Gyomroi in Ceylon, and an announcement of the September 1953 Weaver's Seminar.

September 1963 issue of Warp and Weft, a monthly handweaving bulletin published by Robin & Russ Handweavers in McMinnville, Oregon. It includes the editor's column, a review of Harriet Tidball's monograph on honeycomb weaves (Undulating Weft Effects), and a 5-rib M's and O's place-mat project on four shafts with a linen warp and rayon weft. The featured sample is a four-harness basket and twill hybrid in linen and ramie, with threading, tie-up, treadling, a towel warp plan and a cost breakdown. The issue also has a cover note on a Texas double-weave wall hanging, a cover photograph contest, classified ads for yarns and books, and a marketplace page.

January 1910 issue (Vol. 6, No. 1) of Posselt's Textile Journal, a monthly trade journal of the American textile industry. It carries technical articles on dyeing cotton chains, the ring frame, new shuttles, loom warp waxing, silk moiréing and gauffréing, ribbon looms, yarn testing, wool sorting and washing, ladies' cloth finishing, knitting machines, dyeing faults and color matching. Weave content includes a lesson on combining twills and baskets into new weaves, with questions, and fabric specifications for dress goods, suitings and cloakings with weave drafts. The issue also holds market reports, trade mark listings, patent-type machinery descriptions, mill news, and many advertisements.

One page of the serialized Dictionary of Textile Terms from Posselt's Textile Journal, April 1918, continuing from the March issue. It gives short definitions of entries running from Mamudi to Mauvein. The entries cover fabrics, fibers and cottons, dyestuffs, finishing machinery and processes, and some weave terms such as Marseilles weave, mat weave and matelassé.

A single page from the September 1910 issue of Posselt's Textile Journal, part of a serialized Dictionary of Weaves. It shows two large blocks of black-and-white drawdowns for five-harness weaves (twill, basket, diagonal and figured), grouped by repeat size such as 5 x 20, 5 x 15, 5 x 10 and 5 x 5. A short note says the finished dictionary will hold over twenty thousand weaves, with more than four thousand already published and available through back numbers.

A short article from Master Weaver on stitching together the two layers of double weaves. It covers three uses: lining to cover long floats on the back of pattern weaves such as swivel weave, reinforcing an open basket weave with a tabby ground, and quilt weaves with wadding between the layers. Drafts (Figs. 1-10) and treadling sequences accompany each example. It ends with a practical project for a heavy couch cover, giving yarns, setts, quantities and reed advice.

A one-page article from Posselt's Textile Journal (September 1920) presenting five weave designs for figured trouserings and suitings for men's wear. Each weave (Figs. 1-5) is described with its repeat size and thread arrangement: a spotted effect on a double-plain base, a reversed 2-up 2-down 4-harness twill line effect, a broken diagonal, a fancy stripe combining basket weave and twill with a crepe section, and a twill stripe with broken twill sections. The scan also includes unrelated news items on fuel economy in Germany and Switzerland and Liverpool exports.

Two pages from the February 1915 issue of Posselt's Textile Journal (Vol. XVI, No. 2), continuing a series on reversible double-plain fabrics for harness and jacquard work. This installment covers spotted patterns and stripe effects with twill or basket plies (Figs. 12-13), then checkerboard effects using broken twill and twill-and-basket combinations (Figs. 14-17), with color arrangements and repeat sizes. Page 2 also begins a section of a separate series on ribbon and trimming manufacture, discussing entering threads for fancy ribbon edges.

A personal weaving pattern book and sketch book kept by H. Crowther, dated 1924 on the cover, in landscape format. It combines mounted fabric swatches (plaids, herringbone, hopsack, twill) and point-paper drawdowns with hand-painted colour swatches, colour wheels, repeat designs and pencil sketches. Handwritten notes name structures such as Shepherds Plaid woven 2/2 feather, 4/4 herringbone with 4/4 hopsack, and 2/2 twill. It looks like a student's or designer's book on textile design and colour theory.

A two-page 'Designing' column from The Textile Mercury (20 June 1891) offering new woollen and worsted weave designs (Designs 49-52) with suggested warp and weft colourings, yarn counts, reed sizes and picks per inch. It also gives a figured design for dress goods with pegging plan and two alternative drafts (16 shafts, 48 to the round), with advice on yarns and setts for linen dress goods, shirtings and vestings. Page 1 opens with unrelated trade news, including a note on Norwegian tapestry counterpanes.

A short article from a handweavers' bulletin that discusses how weaves might be classified and traces a logical derivation of weave structures. It begins with tabby and moves through basket weave, 1:2 and 2:2 twill, herringbone, wave and diamond twills, then crackle and overshot, with summer-and-winter described as crackle on opposites. Two small figures illustrate the transitions, and the article ends with a note that it is to be continued.

Issue No. 65 (September-October 1962) of Master Weaver, a bi-monthly bulletin for handweavers published by Z-Handicrafts in Fulford, Quebec. It contains articles on the design and history of striped fabrics, a handwoven pile "fur coat" fabric combining corduroy pile, tabby lining and stitching on 8 shafts, basket weave (2:2, 3:3, 4:4) with tabby-edge threadings and weaving rhythm, and backing in warp using turned drafts. A "From the Classics" excerpt from Clinton G. Gilroy's The Art of Weaving (1844) on harmonious colouring is included, and the issue ends with a subscription and product advertisement.

Three pages from the May 1912 issue of Posselt's Textile Journal (pp. 115-117) continuing a series on rib weaves built with backing or rib picks. It opens with the end of a check gingham example (warp color sequence, reed entering, 75 x 90 texture), then explains diagonal rib weaves (Figs. 17-26), combinations of twill, basket and satin weaves, and herring-bone or broken-twill rib weaves (Figs. 27-32), with repeat sizes and harness requirements. A separate article by James B. Hetherington, "Care in Winding Warp Yarn," begins on the last page and covers inspecting hanks, mixed yarns and knots tied at winding.

A single page from Posselt's Textile Journal (September 1912), continuing a series on adding weight and bulk to fabric with back filling. It covers arrangements of 3 face picks to 1 back pick, with a plate of weave diagrams (Figs. 57-67) showing a 2 by 6 rib, a 6-harness basket weave and a 15-harness granite weave, each with the back filling stitched to the face by satin interlacings. The page also carries the end of an unrelated article on lappet pattern wheels.

Veva N. Carr describes her experiments weaving baby blankets, a carriage robe and a lap pad in wool, mainly on the Bronson weave and a basket-weave draft from Mary M. Atwater's Shuttle-Craft Book. She gives threadings, tie-ups, treadling sequences, color borders, sett (30 and 15 threads per inch), yarns (Saxony, Miro, Bernat Laurel) and finishing methods such as crochet shell edges and ribbon binding. The scan also includes continuation fragments of other articles in the same issue: a Rosengang treadling and pieces on Loja Saarinen and Scandinavian art weaving.

A one-page article from Posselt's Textile Journal, August 1920, describing seven weave constructions for novelty fabrics. Each is built on a satin base (7x7, 10x10, 12x12 or 16x16) to give granite, basket, spotted or broken twill effects, with a drawdown for Fig. 2. The page also carries a trade report on broad silk sales and raw silk markets, plus a short note on Basle dye firms buying a U.S. dyestuff factory.

An International Correspondence Schools instruction paper (Serial 507) on the construction of satin weaves and weaves derived from them. It explains how satin bases are chosen, warp- and filling-flush satins, irregular 6-end satins, and double satins, and includes a table of satin orders for 5 to 12 ends. It then covers satin derivatives, granite weaves, basket weaves, warp and filling ribs, unequal ribs, corkscrew weaves, and honeycombs. Most pages carry small drawdown figures, and practice exercises follow two of the sections.

April 1977 issue of Warp and Weft, a monthly published by Robin & Russ Handweavers of McMinnville, Oregon. It includes an editor's column on ramie and upcoming conferences, a note on a warp-faced log cabin cover photo, reviews of two books (Crafts of the North American Indians; Carding, Spinning, Dyeing), and a draft for a four-shaft worsted fabric called Burgundy Basketry with threading, tie-up, treadling, sett and cost. The issue ends with a spinning wheel article and classified ads for yarns and books.

Two pages from The Textile Mercury, 22 February 1890, with the 'Designing' column on new designs for the textile trade. It continues a series on cotton shirtings, giving particulars for Design No. 2 (10 shafts, 32-end draft, reed, counts and picks) with draft and pegging plan. It then discusses the likely replacement of broad figured worsted twills for coatings and trouserings, with warp and weft colour schemes and drawdowns for Designs 45 to 49, including twills, hopsack and corkscrew weaves for worsteds and woollens. The first page also carries unrelated letters and trade notes.

Partial run of Volume 23 of Drafts and Designs, a monthly guide to 5- to 12-harness weaves published by Robin & Russ Handweavers of McMinnville, Oregon. The issues here (Nos. 2-7, 9 and 10, October 1980 to June 1981) each present one sample fabric with warp and weft yarns, reed, threading and tie-up drafts, treadling, and yarn and fabric costs. Samples include an 8-shaft waffle weave, Swedish lace on 8 shafts (twice), a 6-shaft basket/overshot combination, an 8-shaft imitation damask in two colorways, a 6-shaft basket-weave plaid, and an 8-shaft twill variation in linen. The issues also carry workshop and tour notices and a correction of a tie-up error.

Issues 1-3 (January, April, July 1977) of Loomcraft, the quarterly newsletter of Campden Weavers in Chipping Campden, England. It contains small weaving projects with threadings and shaft lifts (a canvas weave scarf, striped bedspread and curtain fabrics, an evening skirt, a stole, boucle and hopsack sample pieces), plus articles on spinning wheel maintenance, pricing handweaving, choosing a loom, the history of the lucet, selvedges and borders, book reviews, readers' letters, guild news and yarn and stock lists. Lervad loom Nos. 13, 9 and 7 are described, including their tie-up systems.

A single page from the June 1909 issue of Posselt's Textile Journal, part of a serialized Dictionary of Weaves. It shows two grids of twelve-harness weave drawdowns, labeled 12 x 24 and 12 x 12, each divided into blocks of different weaves including diagonal, twill, basket and geometric patterns. A footnote says the complete dictionary will contain over twenty thousand weaves taken from woven fabrics, with about 1,500 published so far.

Two pages from the continuing "Dictionary of Weaves" series in Posselt's Textile Journal, February 1908 (pp. 197-198). The pages consist almost entirely of drawdown grids for ten-harness weaves, shown as 10 x 10 and 10 x 20 repeats, including diagonal, twill-type, and basket-type interlacings. There is almost no running text beyond headings.

Two pages from the April 1915 issue of Posselt's Textile Journal, continuing a serialized dictionary of textile terms with entries from "Baby Flannel" to "Bashlyk". Entries cover fabrics, fibres, cotton varieties, spinning and finishing machinery, dyes, and finishing chemicals such as barium salts. The Barathea entry gives standard warp and filling textures, and the Barley-corn Weaves entry describes small figured basket weaves.