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Book Marks and Hair Bands on Card Weaving
Book Marks and Hair Bands on Card Weaving
Eloise Cobb · Weaver, July 1942
Article · 1 page · weaving drafts
A short article by Eloise Cobb describing how to make bookmarks and hair bands using card (tablet) weaving, based on a pattern by Mrs. Atwater. It gives sizes, fringe and length suggestions, color combinations, and notes on turning the cards to produce arrowhead or diamond motifs. The page includes pattern charts with color keys; it opens with the end of a preceding article's pick-up instructions for Norwegian belts from Trondheim and Bergen.
Card Weaving
Card Weaving
Charlotte Miller · Minnesota Weaver, December 1976-January 1977
Article · 2 pages · weaving drafts
A short instructional article on card (tablet) weaving by Charlotte Miller, from the Swatch Page of Minnesota Weaver. It introduces the technique, compares four-hole cards to a four-harness weave, and explains shuffling and two-way turning of card groups. It gives a threading diagram for an 18-card project (X = 32 ends, O = 40 ends) with step-by-step instructions for threading, warping, turning, and making diagonal pattern changes. It ends with tips on yarn choice, correcting mistakes, and calculating warp length.
Card Weaving Technique
Card Weaving Technique
Clara M. Youse · Weaver, January-February 1941
Article · 5 pages
A beginner's instruction article on card (tablet) weaving by Clara M. Youse. It describes the cards, suitable warp and weft yarns, warping, and the method of turning the pack of cards, then gives seven progressive braid studies with tablet-by-tablet specification tables for direction and color. The studies produce plain, striped, horizontal band, checker, chevron, diagonal and wavy (river) patterns. A short book review of 'Weaving at the Little Loomhouse' follows the article.
Two Tablet-Woven Bands in Three Color Pebble Weave
Two Tablet-Woven Bands in Three Color Pebble Weave
Web Doc · 2 pages
A short 1999 article by Betty Lou Whaley describing two tablet-woven bands in a three-color pebble weave, one single-faced and one double-faced, based on a duck pattern from an ancient Bolivian belt. She explains weaving without twist build-up, using triangular tablets cut from matt board and later hexagonal tablets with ramie yarn. Actual-size photographs show the front and back of both bands.
Weaving on a Card Loom
Weaving on a Card Loom
Monograph · 2 pages · weaving drafts
A two-page instructional leaflet from Coats & Clark on tablet (card) weaving for beginners. It explains how to make a loom from 14 cardboard filing dividers, a tongue-depressor shuttle and shoelaces, and how to chart a design on 4 by 14 graph paper. It also covers threading the cards, turning them to weave, and finishing the ends with a buckle or fringe. Sample graphs are given for Arrow, Diagonal Stripes and Wavy Lines designs, with photographs of the woven bands.
Card Weaving
Card Weaving
Monograph · 17 pages · weaving drafts
A pamphlet by Mary Meigs Atwater introducing card (tablet) weaving in the simple ancient Egyptian four-hole technique. It covers equipment, materials, reading drafts, warping, threading the cards, stretching the warp, the turning sequences for weaving, and variations such as braided bands. Nine patterns are given with warp color schedules, including the Girdle of Ptahhotep, and photographs of the woven samples. It closes with finishing advice, a short reading list, and pages advertising Lily and Tulip cotton yarns.
Double-Faced Tablet Weaving
Double-Faced Tablet Weaving
Linda Hendrickson · Weaver's, Spring 1997
Article · 4 pages · weaving drafts
An article by Linda Hendrickson introducing double-faced tablet weaving, in which two packs of tablets (background and design) are turned in opposite directions in an FFBB sequence to produce reversible motifs. It explains how to read the design graph, set up a 24-tablet sampler warp in pearl cotton, and weave a square-motif sampler, and gives troubleshooting advice for common errors such as wrong turning direction, tangled threads and unclear sheds. It ends with a project for a double-faced necklace using 48 tablets, with a design graph, finishing instructions for plied neck cords and fringe, and a short bibliography.
Drawing Down Card Weaving Drafts
Drawing Down Card Weaving Drafts
Mrs. W.F. McNulty · Weaver, January-February 1941
Article · 1 page · weaving drafts
A one-page article explaining how to draw down card (tablet) weaving drafts on squared paper to preview how a finished band will look. The author works through two examples: a Swedish band in orange, black and white linen, and a Danish draft. She shows the effect of weaving twenty-four turns forward and backward versus four and four. The page includes the drafts, a drawn-down pattern, and photographs of the two woven bands.
New Ideas for Tablet Woven Rugs, Spun and Woven by Hand
New Ideas for Tablet Woven Rugs, Spun and Woven by Hand
Article · 1 page
A one-page article from The Weaver (1936) in which Beatrice A. Shephard presents three handspun, tablet-woven rugs. For each rug she lists weight, length, width, colors and fringe treatment, with brief remarks such as an Egyptian look and the overall effect. Three photographs show the finished rugs with striped and patterned bands and fringed ends. No weaving drafts or tablet threading instructions are given.
Tablet Weaving
Tablet Weaving
Monograph · 16 pages · weaving drafts
A Dryad Handicrafts leaflet (No. 111) giving a practical introduction to tablet (card) weaving. It covers materials, tablets, shuttle, beater and simple looms or waist-belt setups, then explains threading and quarter-turning the tablets and setting up the warp. Eleven numbered pattern drafts follow, from simple two-colour stripes and chequers to three- and four-colour designs, with diagrams, photographs of braids and instructions for threading from above or below.
Tablet-Woven Gauze Scarves
Tablet-Woven Gauze Scarves
Linda Hendrickson · Weaver's, Summer 1998
Article · 2 pages
Project article by Linda Hendrickson giving instructions for four tablet-woven gauze scarves, all made with 60 tablets threaded alike and sett at 6 tablets per inch using a reed. The scarves differ in yarn choice, color and value, and in how often the weft is placed in the 4 forward, 4 backward turning sequence. It lists equipment, setup, weaving, finishing and the materials for each scarf, including ribbon, turquoise and purple, and black and white versions.
Weaving with a Twist
Weaving with a Twist
Linda Hendrickson · Weaver's, Spring 1996
Article · 4 pages · weaving drafts
An introductory article on tablet (card) weaving, the first in a series, by Linda Hendrickson. It explains the weaving process and three pattern variables (threading direction, position of the A-B line, and turning direction), describes simple tools such as a warping wand, warp spreader and C-clamp loom, and gives step-by-step instructions for the '10-minute warp' to make eight bookmarks or a sampler. A closing chart gives nine basic band patterns (horizontal lines, checkerboards, diagonals, wavy lines, chevrons, diamonds) specified by threading, A-B line positions and turning sequence.
Stunting on the Cards
Stunting on the Cards
Mary Meigs Atwater · Weaver, January 1937
Article · 6 pages · weaving drafts
Mary Atwater's 1937 article describes special techniques, or "stunts," for card (tablet) weaving. It explains a time-saving method of warping and threading cards in pairs for patterns where every card carries the same colors, then shows how to weave around a square corner, make twisted effects for a hatband, and weave four-strand and five-section braided belts. It also suggests uses such as card-woven stripes set in loom fabric, fringes, sandal straps, bag handles and girdles. Six pages of drafts, stacking diagrams and photographs of samples accompany the text.
Tablet Weaving
Tablet Weaving
Mabel W. Peach · Dryad, c. 1930-1939
Monograph · 28 pages · weaving drafts
A Dryad Handicrafts booklet introducing tablet (card) weaving for beginners, with an introduction by H. H. Peach on the craft's history and geographic spread. It covers materials, tablets, shuttles, beaters and simple looms, then explains threading and quarter-turn sequences. Nine graded patterns are given on squared-paper charts with threading tables, from two-way black and white bands to a three-colour pattern and a broader braid after van Gennep and Jéquier. Photographs show tablet-woven bands, tablets and equipment from Bikanir, Russia and elsewhere, plus a Viking-age grave excavation. A bibliography of works on tablet weaving is included.
Le Tissage aux Cartons [Card Weaving]
Le Tissage aux Cartons [Card Weaving]
Monograph · 17 pages · French
A chapter by Arnold van Gennep (offprint from the Revue d'Ethnographie et de Sociologie, 1911) on card weaving (tablet weaving) in North Africa, based on his own observation of weavers in Tlemcen, Algiers and Tunisian ribbons. It explains the technique as derived from rope-making, covering twisting of threads through four-holed cards, chevron patterns, reversing card rotation, warp length, threading, the comb and loom types, and the number of threads per card. It ends with a distribution map and a discussion of the antiquity and origins of the technique, with comparisons to Lehmann-Filhès, Akhmim, Iceland, Caucasus and Swiss lake-dwelling finds.
Weaving with Small Appliances, Book II: Tablet Weaving
Weaving with Small Appliances, Book II: Tablet Weaving
Book · 83 pages · weaving drafts
Book II of Luther Hooper's Weaving with Small Appliances is an instructional manual on tablet (card) weaving for making braids and narrow bands. It covers how the method differs from board-loom weaving, making the tablets and a small weaving stand, warping, mounting and threading the tablets, suitable yarns, and starting to weave plain braid. Later chapters teach ornamental designs: coloured stripes, checkers or dice patterns, checkers with vertical stripes, diagonals and chevrons, and reversing the turn. Many line drawings and coloured plates are included, along with tablet-by-tablet specifications giving threading, turn direction and colours for the plate designs. The book ends with publisher and supplier advertisements.
Spaced Out Tablet Warps!
Spaced Out Tablet Warps!
Linda Hendrickson · Weaver's, Summer 1999
Article · 4 pages
Linda Hendrickson explains how to put a reed on a tablet-weaving warp so the result is a soft, drapable fabric rather than a firm warp-faced band. The article gives equipment and materials for a 16-section sampler in 5/2 pearl cotton, with instructions for building a portable tablet loom from a board, tensioning blocks and C-clamps. It also covers sleying tablets in a reed, using a shed stick, and turning sequences for each section. The sampler covers basket/plain weave, log cabin, double weave, gauze weave, gauze diamonds and a plain-weave variation. Photos, diagrams and a page of simulated cloth images illustrate the process, and a short bibliography is included.
Le Tissage aux Cartons et Son Utilisation Décorative dans L'Égypte Ancienne
Le Tissage aux Cartons et Son Utilisation Décorative dans L'Égypte Ancienne
Book · 135 pages · French · weaving drafts
A 1916 French-language monograph arguing that the geometric ornament painted and carved on ancient Egyptian belts, dagger sheaths, 'palace-façade' stelae, wall hangings and early ivory and wood engravings was copied from tablet-woven (card-woven) bands. Part one classifies the decorative themes (lettered A to V and α to γ); part two explains tablet-weaving principles, card and thread arrangement, turning, widening and the technical variations, with tables and reconstructed ribbons; part three examines the Liverpool scarf attributed to Ramesses III, the Th. Graf collection of ribbons, and tablet weaving among Aegeans, Syrians and in Coptic Egypt. It is illustrated with line figures, color plates of ribbons woven by the authors, and several card-weaving drafts and threading tables.
Weaver, Vol. 6, No. 1 (January-February 1941)
Weaver, Vol. 6, No. 1 (January-February 1941)
Weaver, January-February 1941
Periodical · 32 pages · weaving drafts
Issue of The Weaver (January-February 1941) with articles for American handweavers. It opens with Mary Atwater's questions and answers on warp breakage, followed by Anni Albers on handweaving as preparation for machine production at Black Mountain College, and Henning-Rees on texture identity in weaving. Project articles cover rugs in summer and winter and herringbone stringing, a featherstitch bag, casual table mats, a glue method for cutting off finished pieces, and cotton towelling with tufted borders. There is also a report on the Kitsap Weaving and Spinning Guild exhibit, an article on card (tablet) weaving with braid specifications, a method for drawing down card weaving drafts, a book review of Lou Tate's Weaving at the Little Loom House, and a Bernat loom advertisement.
Minnesota Weaver, Vol. 2, No. 4 (December 1976 - January 1977)
Minnesota Weaver, Vol. 2, No. 4 (December 1976 - January 1977)
Minnesota Weaver, December 1976 - January 1977
Periodical · 18 pages · weaving drafts
December 1976-January 1977 issue of the newsletter of the Weavers Guild of Minnesota. It lists upcoming events (annual Open House, Spin-In, a January program on handprinted and dyed textiles by Elsa Sreenivasam), guild news, a treasurer's report, library book reviews and class listings. Technical articles cover cardweaving with two-way turning and shuffling patterns (with a threading diagram), warp variations on the rigid heddle/frame loom, and sett (ends per inch). Other items include a report on a Latin American brocade presentation, a crafts tour of Turkey, a Bolivian weaving book open house, exhibit reviews, and ads from Minnesota weaving suppliers.
Minnesota Weaver, Vol. 1, No. 7 (April 1976)
Minnesota Weaver, Vol. 1, No. 7 (April 1976)
Minnesota Weaver, April 1976
Periodical · 16 pages · weaving drafts
April 1976 issue of the Weavers Guild of Minnesota newsletter. It announces the April meeting on cardweaving and a workshop on spinning novelty yarns and pet hair, and carries board news including a dues increase, a treasurer's report, exhibit notices and Stitchery/76 sale details. Features include a history of the Guild's early classes, a frame loom book list, school class highlights, study groups, a report on a Southern California handweavers conference, dye plant catalogues, basketry, a metric column on dyeing weights, a Swap Shop of weaving tips, and a swatch page on the warp pattern system (supplementary warp on a tabby foundation) with threading diagrams. It also includes a bulletin board, a yarn order form and advertisements.
Minnesota Weaver, Vol. 6, No. 5 (January 1981)
Minnesota Weaver, Vol. 6, No. 5 (January 1981)
Minnesota Weaver, January 1981
Periodical · 12 pages
January 1981 issue of the Weavers Guild of Minnesota newsletter, with guild announcements, new member listings, class and seminar news, and committee reports. Features include a workshop report on tablet weaving with Peter Collingwood at UM Duluth, a conservation article on how to wash a textile, and a review of Adele Cahlander's monograph Sling Braiding of the Andes. It also has a profile of board members Paul O'Connor and Ann Fox, a European tapestries seminar at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, HGA news, a bulletin board with items for sale, and a word-search puzzle. No weaving drafts are included.
Hand-Woven Fabrics for Upholstering
Hand-Woven Fabrics for Upholstering
Ruth Bolinger · Weaver, July 1939
Article · 3 pages · weaving drafts
First-person account by Ruth Bolinger of restoring a set of 1860s black walnut furniture and covering it with her own handwoven upholstery fabric. She explains her yarn choices (Weaving Special warp, Homespun weft), sett, and the yardage calculations for warp and weft, then gives an eight-harness Swedish upholstery pattern with threading, tie-up and treadling. She also describes reusing a plain-weave wine-colored suit fabric for a rocker, weaving a narrow card-woven gimp, and working with the upholsterer.
Minnesota Weavers Guild Calendar (November 1982)
Minnesota Weavers Guild Calendar (November 1982)
Periodical · 4 pages
November/December 1982 calendar of the Weavers Guild of Minnesota, listing guild events, workshops and classes. It covers the November members' meeting with Mary Walker Phillips on creative knitting, the 9th Annual Fiber Fair, BMFM workshops on card weaving and fiber jewelry, and a December meeting on after image in color and design. It also includes a message from the presidents on 5-year goal setting, member exhibition notices, help-wanted and for-sale listings, and monthly calendar grids for November and December.
Warp & Weft, Vol. 14, No. 1 (January 1961)
Warp & Weft, Vol. 14, No. 1 (January 1961)
January 1961
Periodical · 8 pages · weaving drafts
January 1961 issue of Warp and Weft, a monthly handweaving newsletter from Robin & Russ Handweavers in Santa Barbara. It includes the editor's column, a profile of the Tranquillity Studio (Ann and Cliff Hotchkiss) in Cornwall Bridge, Connecticut, and a project sample, a baby blanket in open lace weave using pompadour yarn, with a threading draft, tie-up, treadling, yarn details and cost. Other items are a review of the editor's book on card weaving, a report on a ramie durability test, classified ads for yarns and supplies, and a marketplace page.
Fragments from the Tomb of an Unknown Bishop in Saint Denis, Paris
Fragments from the Tomb of an Unknown Bishop in Saint Denis, Paris
Article · 8 pages
Margaret Rowe describes thirteenth-century textile fragments from an unmarked bishop's burial found during Sumner Crosby's excavations at the Abbey Church of Saint Denis, now mounted in plastic at the Yale University Art Gallery. She covers the circumstances of the find, the fiber and dye analysis (silk, madder-dyed red, silver-gilt thread on silk core), the plastic embedding conservation, and the vestments. She gives particular attention to a knitted silk glove and to tablet-woven trim bands, with measured descriptions of the mounted band fragments. The article is illustrated with plates of the burial, fragments, glove and bands.
Warp & Weft, Vol. 30, No. 5 (May 1977)
Warp & Weft, Vol. 30, No. 5 (May 1977)
May 1977
Periodical · 8 pages · weaving drafts
May 1977 issue of Warp and Weft, a monthly newsletter from Robin & Russ Handweavers of McMinnville, Oregon. It includes an editor's column, a note on a double weave coverlet cover photograph (Lisbon Star center, Pine Tree border), and a project, 'Golden Daze', for a linen and ramie drapery fabric with a 4-shaft threading, tie-up, treadling, reed sleying, and cost breakdown. It also has reviews of Ruth J. Katz's Card Weaving and Cason and Cahlander's The Art of Bolivian Highland Weaving, plus classified ads for yarns, tools, books and looms.
WeaveTech Archives, April 2000
WeaveTech Archives, April 2000
WeaveTech, April 2000
Web Doc · 165 pages
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.
Weaver's Journal, Vol. IX, No. 1 Issue 33 (Summer 1984)
Weaver's Journal, Vol. IX, No. 1 Issue 33 (Summer 1984)
Weaver's Journal, Summer 1984
Periodical · 72 pages · weaving drafts
Issue 33 (Summer 1984) of The Weaver's Journal, a quarterly for textile craftspeople, which marks the change of ownership from Clotilde Barrett to Karen Searle and Suzanne Baizerman. Features include an explanation of how the Jacquard loom works, Sarakatsani cord and split-ply decoration from Greece, weaving the ancient Egyptian Girdle of Rameses on four or five shafts, a Telemark card-woven belt, shaft-switching with harness control on two-tie overshot-style block drafts, and production placemats in a Summer and Winter variant. Further articles cover a Smalands weave on eight shafts, a felted jacket in 5-shaft satin woven on opposites, a Beiderwand garment, a fashion trends column, and a children's class blanket project. Departments include letters, conference reports (Convergence '84, Midwest Weavers Conference), calendar, book reviews, products, classifieds, an annual index of volume VIII, and many advertisements.
Weaver's Journal, Vol. IX, No. 3 Issue 35 (Winter 1985)
Weaver's Journal, Vol. IX, No. 3 Issue 35 (Winter 1985)
Weaver's Journal, Winter 1985
Periodical · 92 pages · weaving drafts
Winter 1985 issue of The Weaver's Journal, a quarterly for textile craftspeople, with a theme centered on handwoven clothing. Features include dobby loom manipulation of multi-harness weaves, a finishing method from an Amazonian bracelet, wrist-to-wrist garments, tablet-woven bands for garments, pulled-warp loom-shaped clothing, mounting and care of textiles, a waffle-weave summer vest, liturgical vestments, Tied Lithuanian, cut-and-sew mittens, a tailored vest and skirt, man-made fibers, and the Doublejack device for floating selvedges. Also includes a profile of the tapestries and rugs of Märta Måås-Fjetterström, fashion trends, book and product reviews, calendar, classifieds, and many advertisements.
Selected References on Hand Weaving
Selected References on Hand Weaving
Monograph · 4 pages
A four-page annotated bibliography of English-language references on hand weaving, issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics in a revised edition dated April 1953. It lists about 30 books with author, page count, publisher and address, and year, plus a short description of each. A second section covers pamphlets, periodicals and directories such as Handweaver and Craftsman, Craft Horizons and Where to Get What. Topics include beginner manuals, pattern books, Navajo weaving, card and finger weaving, textile design and reed or native-material weaving.
Two Norwegian Bands in Pickup
Two Norwegian Bands in Pickup
Article · 2 pages · weaving drafts
Instructions by Mrs. W. F. McNulty for weaving two Norwegian pickup bands on an inkle loom or any two-shed device. The bands are copies of originals bought in Trondheim and Bergen. Step-by-step pickup sequences are given for each band, with threading drafts and squared-paper designs in the figures. A short second item by Eloise Cobb on page 2 describes making bookmarks and hair bands from a card-weaving pattern of Mrs. Atwater's, with charts.
Luther Hooper [Bibliography]
Luther Hooper [Bibliography]
Other · 6 pages · weaving drafts
A short biographical and bibliographic piece on Luther Hooper (1849-1932), English weaver, designer and author of seven handweaving books. It reprints his brief autobiography covering his early work in illumination, wallpaper design and engraving, and his later silk weaving, tapestry and teaching. It then lists his books with publishers and page counts, notes his 1912 Royal Society of Arts lectures, his illustrations and monogram, his loom designs, and the availability of his works. The last pages show sample illustrations from his books, including a 16-shaft table loom draft, a loom-entering diagram, and a plate of tablet-woven bands.
Luther Hooper
Luther Hooper
Ralph E. Griswold · May 8, 2002
Web Doc · 8 pages · weaving drafts
A short biographical essay by Ralph Griswold on the English weaver, designer and author Luther Hooper (1849-1932). It reprints Hooper's brief autobiography, covering his early work as an illuminator, wallpaper designer and silk-weaving designer, and his later teaching and writing, along with Dorothy Wilkinson's 1960 appreciation of him as a teacher. It also lists his seven books with publication details, his 1912 Royal Society of Arts lectures, his illustrations and monogram, his Hooper looms, and where his works can be found. An appendix reproduces sample illustrations from his books, including a table loom draft, a loom prepared for entering, and a tablet-weaving plate.
Simplified Weaving with the Peacock 6-Inch Loom
Simplified Weaving with the Peacock 6-Inch Loom
Other · 4 pages
A four-page instruction leaflet for the Peacock 6-inch two-shed loom, sold by The Handcrafters of Waupun, Wisconsin. It covers loom parts, warp length and count, winding and tying the warp, threading the heddle-beater, and basic weaving with finishing and troubleshooting. It also gives sections on bead weaving (stringing beads and finishing belts), card weaving with a dozen punched cards, pattern ideas such as stripes, plaids and Navajo-style color changes, and suggested small projects.
Het Weven in Nederlandsch-Indië [Weaving in the Netherlands Indies]
Het Weven in Nederlandsch-Indië [Weaving in the Netherlands Indies]
Monograph · 90 pages · Dutch · weaving drafts
A 1903 Dutch-language monograph (Bulletin No. 28 of the Colonial Museum in Haarlem) describing hand weaving in the Dutch East Indies. It covers fibres and spinning, dyeing, warping and ikat tying (warp, weft and double ikat), the three types of loom from backstrap to pedal loom, and regional weaving centres such as Roti, Sumba, Timor, Sumatra, Borneo, Palembang, Bali and Java. A final chapter treats card (tablet) weaving of bands and borders. It includes notes, a bibliography, and about twenty plates of textiles and weaving equipment with museum provenance.
Complex Weavers Medieval Textiles Study Group Newsletter 35
Complex Weavers Medieval Textiles Study Group Newsletter 35
Nancy M. McKenna · March 2003
Web Doc · 10 pages · weaving drafts
Issue 35 (March 2003) of the Complex Weavers Medieval Textiles Study Group newsletter. It includes Carolyn Priest-Dorman's analysis of two irregular medieval pavy weaves (gebrochene structures) from a Middelburg antependium and a linen fragment from St. Truiden, with drafts. It also has Nancy Arthur Hoskins's article on Coptic tapestry-taqueté textiles and her recreation, Cerise Moodey's introduction to cardweaving with warping instructions, and Joanne Burrows's account of weaving linen 'Perugia towels' with diamond twill ground and brocaded borders. The issue closes with a chairperson's column, a comic strip about a medieval cloth merchant, upcoming exhibitions and a review of Mazzaoui's book on the Italian cotton industry.
Warp & Weft, Vol. 26, No. 4 (April 1973)
Warp & Weft, Vol. 26, No. 4 (April 1973)
Warp & Weft, April 1973
Periodical · 8 pages · weaving drafts
April 1973 issue of Warp & Weft, the monthly newsletter of Robin & Russ Handweavers in McMinnville, Oregon. It features a four-harness twill tartan, "The Dress Tartan Blues," combining 2/18 worsted and English tweed yarns, with tie-up, a two-repeat threading of 46 threads each, yarn details, reed and sett, and a cost breakdown of about $4.00 per yard. Also included are the editor's column, a cover note on card-weaving variations, a review of Therese de Dillmont's Complete Encyclopedia of Needlework, loom-naming contest winners (the Oregon Trail Loom), shop projects, and classified yarn ads.
Weaver, Vol. 1, No. 3 (July 1936)
Weaver, Vol. 1, No. 3 (July 1936)
Weaver, July 1936
Periodical · 30 pages · weaving drafts
Issue of the American handweaving magazine The Weaver (Vol. 1, No. 3, July 1936) with instructional articles. Contents include knotted "Swedish" and Summak tapestry weaving on a frame, ten miniature overshot-style patterns with drafts, tablet-woven rugs, handwoven linen towels, a simplified loom tie-up for eight-harness looms, a four-harness pictorial wall hanging, a crackle-weave chair upholstery, Mexican Indian belt designs, and Mary M. Atwater's directions for simple leno ("cross") weaving with doupe harnesses. Many pages carry drafts, diagrams and photographs, and the back page has a Bernat yarns advertisement.
Weben: Einführung in die Techniken des Handwebens [Weaving: Introduction to the Techniques of Hand Weaving]
Weben: Einführung in die Techniken des Handwebens [Weaving: Introduction to the Techniques of Hand Weaving]
Book · 79 pages · German · weaving drafts
A German-language handbook introducing hand weaving to beginners, published by Otto Maier Verlag, Ravensburg. It covers basic weaving terms and a short account of weave structures (plain weave, rib, cannelé, twill, panama), then the available looms and frames (comb, heddle and shaft devices, table looms), materials, and warp calculation, warping and dressing the loom. Technique chapters treat rib, kelim, gobelin, Swedish technique, Smyrna knotting, noppen, plain weave, twill and rag weaving, followed by band weaving with comb and tablets, round weaving, tundeln and bead weaving. It also includes design guidelines, a short history of hand weaving, a table of things to weave, and advertisements for loom makers; the accompanying pattern sheets contain warping and weft plans.
Warp & Weft, Vol. 31, No. 2 (February 1978)
Warp & Weft, Vol. 31, No. 2 (February 1978)
February 1978
Periodical · 8 pages · weaving drafts
February 1978 issue of Warp and Weft, the monthly newsletter of Robin & Russ Handweavers in McMinnville, Oregon. It includes the editor's column, a review of Lucille Landis's book Twills and Twill Derivatives, and a project for the "Jacobite" tartan in 2/18 worsted, with tie-up, color key, threading draft, sett, yarn and fabric costs, and notes on traditional tartan structure. It also describes a bag on the cover woven in a bound weave with card-woven handles, and an overshot handbag project in the "Small Diamond" pattern on 10/2 linen. The last pages are classified ads and book and loom advertisements.
Warp & Weft, Vol. 34, No. 5 (May 1981)
Warp & Weft, Vol. 34, No. 5 (May 1981)
May 1981
Periodical · 8 pages · weaving drafts
May 1981 issue of Warp and Weft, the monthly bulletin of Robin & Russ Handweavers in McMinnville, Oregon. It includes the editor's column, notes on the silk used for Lady Diana Spencer's royal wedding gown (Lullingstone Silk Farm), a card-weaving cover photo, and a follow-up on the 8-harness 'La Belle Creole' pattern from Atwater's Recipe Book. The sample is 'A Touch of the Grape', a 4-shaft upholstery fabric with a draft, tie-up, treadling, yarn details and cost per yard. Also included are reviews of three Frederick Gerber natural-dye booklets, a notice of a 1982 Australia/New Zealand tour, and pages of classified and display ads for yarns and books.
The Bulletin of the Needle and Bobbin Club, Vol. 52, Nos. 1 & 2 (1969)
The Bulletin of the Needle and Bobbin Club, Vol. 52, Nos. 1 & 2 (1969)
Periodical · 51 pages
Double issue (Vol. 52, Nos. 1 & 2) of the Bulletin of the Needle and Bobbin Club, 1969. It contains Luba Gurdus's study of a newly discovered epitaphios (embroidered Orthodox funeral cloth) attributed to the Serbian artist Christopher Zefarovic, with comparison to epitaphioi by Despoineta and Theodosia Kasymbouri. Margaret T. J. Rowe examines textile fragments from the tomb of an unknown bishop at Saint Denis, including knitted silk gloves and tablet-woven silver-gilt bands. Marguerite Dubuisson's French-language article surveys medieval knitting (bonneterie) through surviving socks, gloves, mittens and cushion covers. The issue ends with a book note on William Justema's The Pleasures of Pattern, club notes, an obituary section and a list of officers.
Warp & Weft, Vol. 35, No. 6 (June 1982)
Warp & Weft, Vol. 35, No. 6 (June 1982)
June 1982
Periodical · 8 pages · weaving drafts
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.
Minnesota Weaver, Vol. 1, No. 1 (September 1975)
Minnesota Weaver, Vol. 1, No. 1 (September 1975)
Minnesota Weaver, September 1975
Periodical · 12 pages
First issue of The Minnesota Weaver, the newsletter of the Weavers Guild of Minnesota, dated September 1975. It replaces The Threadbender and carries guild business: the September program with Jan Burhen on geometric garments, workshop registration policy, financial and membership notes, office notices, library news with new acquisitions and book reviews, and plans for the Fiber Fair and a Christmas tree at the Art Institute. It also has summer workshop reports (Bolivian weaving, rep weaves, ikat dyeing, gang weaving, cardweaving), a natural-dye light-fastness test, a frame loom tip, show listings, and ads from local suppliers.
Weaver, Vol. 7, No. 2 (July 1942)
Weaver, Vol. 7, No. 2 (July 1942)
Weaver, July 1942
Periodical · 32 pages · weaving drafts
July 1942 issue of The Weaver, published by Emile Bernat & Sons, with eleven articles and features on handweaving technique. Mary Atwater covers finishing edges: fringes, knotted and braided fringes, and Maori rolled edges. Other pieces cover warp-face "Log Cabin" rugs and mats with drafts, a woven Christmas tree card, a classification of overshot pattern types after the Shuttlecraft Book, and six-harness summer and winter variations. The issue also has two Norwegian pickup bands, card-woven bookmarks and hair bands, "Humanesque Figures" variations, a questions and answers column, and Bronson (Barley Corn) weave drafts from old German manuscripts by Johann Schleelein.
Loom Music, Vol. VIII (1951)
Loom Music, Vol. VIII (1951)
Periodical · 97 pages · weaving drafts
Bound volume of Loom Music for 1951 (Vol. VIII, nos. 1-10), a Canadian monthly of weaving instruction written by Mary Sandin (Edmonton) and Ethel Henderson (Winnipeg). Each issue is a themed project set with full warp, threading, sleying and treadling details, tie-ups for counterbalanced and jack looms, and yarn sources. Topics include fine and heavy linen table pieces with spaced denting and crackle, upholstery fabrics in overshot, aprons in rosepath and snowball with Italian-style treadling, Flossa and half-Flossa rugs, warp-stripe belts and bags, boucle drapery fabrics with a Swedish pattern translation, card (tablet) weaving, boucle inlay place mats, M's and O's and other towels, and bags. The volume ends with an annual index.
Weaver's Journal, Vol. VII, No. 1, Issue 25 (Summer 1982)
Weaver's Journal, Vol. VII, No. 1, Issue 25 (Summer 1982)
Weaver's Journal, Summer 1982
Periodical · 80 pages · weaving drafts
Summer 1982 issue of The Weaver's Journal, a quarterly for textile craftspeople. It features an interview with designer Jack Lenor Larsen, articles on interior and upholstery fabrics, and a group of pieces on matelasse and stitched double cloth, including loom-controlled quilting on four shafts and weave analysis. Other projects include a cardwoven selvedge for weft-faced rugs, a Linbogarn shirt with Bar Code 39 stripes, a braided strap from Colombia, woven felted boots, a double-woven mailbag, and backstrap weaving in Ecuador. The issue also has reader letters, book and foreign periodical reviews, product news, classified ads, and the Volume VI index.
Weaver, Vol. 2, No. 1 (January 1937)
Weaver, Vol. 2, No. 1 (January 1937)
Weaver, January 1937
Periodical · 31 pages · weaving drafts
January 1937 issue of The Weaver, a quarterly published by Emile Bernat & Sons Co. It contains Nellie Sargent Johnson on free-weaving laid-in technique (hit-and-miss and square motifs), Esther Hoagland Gallup on color-and-harness border designs using the Rosengang threading, and Mary Atwater's Questions and Answers column. Further articles cover the Cranbrook weavings of Loja Saarinen, Veva Carr on Bronson-weave baby blankets, Elmer Wallace Hickman's introduction to Scandinavian art weaving techniques (Aklae, Rollakan, Dukegang, Krabba, Rya, Flossa and others), and Atwater on card-weaving special methods including braided belts and weaving around a square corner. The issue includes drafts, diagrams, photographs of woven pieces, and a Bernat loom advertisement.
Shuttle-Craft Bulletin (1936)
Shuttle-Craft Bulletin (1936)
Periodical · 25 pages · weaving drafts
A bound set of six 1936 issues of Mary Meigs Atwater's Shuttle-Craft Guild Bulletin (February, March, April, May, June and September), issued from Basin, Montana. The issues cover hand-woven blankets (Goose-Eye, twills, double three-harness twill, double weave), texture drapery fabrics, simple leno or gauze weaving with doupes, spring dress fabrics and plaids, card weaving and small equipment for summer, and bag design including an Igorot bag with the pattern "Biddle's Delight." Each issue includes hand-drawn drafts, notes on yarns and supplies with prices, and news for Guild members.
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