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    Weaving Patterns of Yesterday and Today
    Weaving Patterns of Yesterday and Today
    Weaving Patterns of Yesterday and Today
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    Weaving Patterns of Yesterday and Today

    By Violetta Thurstan

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    “Weaving Patterns of Yesterday and Today” explores the history of weaving and weaving patterns, first looking at its origins before walking the reader trough the various methods used to produce different patterns. With detailed explanations and simple, step-by-step instructions, this profusely-illustrated guide is highly recommended for those with an interest in weaving and its developments throughout the ages. Contents include: “The Harness”, “Cotton And Wool Warps”, “Silk Warp”, “The Selvedge”, “The Calculation Of Threads Required For The Warp Of Patterned Materials”, “The Warp Book”, “Specimen Entry”, “The Pedals And What They Do”, “How To Read A Drafting Pattern”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new introduction on textiles and weaving.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateMay 31, 2013
    ISBN9781473390041
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      Weaving Patterns of Yesterday and Today - Violetta Thurstan

      PART I

      1. THE DEVELOPMENT OF WEAVING TOOLS.

      WEAVING may be done on a simple or a very elaborate pedal loom, a table loom, or one of the simple appliances used in schools. The principles of weaving have not changed since ancient times, but constant new inventions have improved the primitive tools and instruments and rendered weaving easier and more accurate. It is not necessary to have elaborate tools to achieve success; perfect weaving can be attained with very simple appliances. No weaving has ever been more perfect of its kind than the fine linen burial cloths of the early Egyptian dynasties, the Coptic tapestries of the early centuries after Christ, or the Peruvian weaving of the pre-Inca period. Yet the tools with which these lovely fabrics were made were of the most primitive kind. In early times stones were used as loom weights in place of a reed, gazelle horns and deer horns served to pick down the threads, and a beautiful little decorative bobbin of the Bronze Age (now in the Taunton Museum) was made from the tibia bone of a sheep.

      The Indian weaver stretched his warp threads between two bamboo rollers which were fastened to the ground by pegs. He dug a hole in the ground to contain his legs when in a sitting position, and then, suspending the cords which raised and depressed the warp threads to a branch of a tree,

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