Everybody's weaving book

By Alfred Allan Lewis

Book Overview

This book is an introduction to handweaving that really gets down to the basics. It includes terminology of parts of the loom, and different types of looms, all defined and illustrated with... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0025712705
• ISBN13: 9780025712706
• Release Date: January 1976
• Publisher: Macmillan Publishing Co.
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Contents

everybody's weaving book by alfred allan lewis with julienne krasnoff 1976 hardcover with mylar dust jacket I've been weaving since the 1960's and I have never seen this book. It is a real gem! contents include looms: frame looms, table looms, floor looms, counter-balanced looms, jack looms, counter-march looms yarns, threads & fibers: cotton, mercerized cotton, wool and worsted, linen, silk, synthetics, knitting yarns, mill ends drafts, tie-ups, treadling orders, drawdowns warping: preparing the loom for warping, preparing the shuttles, using 2 or more shuttles, making a butterfly the strips: tabby, soumak, leno, danish medallion, bouquet lace, clasped weft, loops, spanish lace, slits, laid-in, basket weave, weft-faced rep, slit tapestry, hatching, wedge shapes, giordes knot, laid-in alternate row, giordes knot [upside down], left and right twill, weft-faced twill, reverse twill, tabby with pattern, 2 layers - double weave, reverse layers - double weave, double width - double weave, tubular cloth ~ double weave, warp-faced twill ~ double weave, winding 2 colors on a warping board, tying a new warp onto an old one, lacing warp to beam, log cabin, spots laid-in, center-slit pocket, stuffed pocket, finishing a hanging other warps, other wefts, other weaves; rose path, double corduroy, paddle warping, sectional warping, double weave, pick-up double weave, colonial overshot appendix: the rigid-heddle loom key to glossary bibliography suppliers index hardcover with mylar dust jacket