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MAGIC

BOOK CREDITS

Please take note of the credits in the book itself, both at the beginning and at the end.

YARNS DONATED FOR THIS BOOK CAME FROM

Halcyon Yarn, 12 School Street, Bath ME 04530; 800-341-0282
www.halcyonyarn.com

Jaggerspun Yarn, Water St., Springvale ME 04050; 800-225-8023
www.jaggeryarn.com

Lunatic Fringe,15009 Cromartie Road, Tallahassee FL 32309; 800-483-8749.

Treenway Silks, 501 Musgrave Rd., Salt Spring Island, BC/Canada V8K 1V5; 888-383-SILK; don’t miss her cottage industry Phaeng Mai silk weavings at www.treenwaysilks.com

LOOMS USED FOR PROJECTS IN THIS BOOK

(1) The table loom is from Purrington Looms, LLC, Box 44, Scott Depot WV 25560-0044 where they make 8-16 shaft table looms and 4-shaft floor looms in various widths
www.purringtonlooms.com

(2) The floor loom is a Baby Wolf from Schacht Spindle Co. Inc., 6106 Ben Place, Boulder CO 80301; 800-228-2553 www.schachtspindle.com/schachtdealer.htm

WEAVING SOFTWARE USED IN COMPILING THIS BOOK

Fiberworks PCW (weaving drafts)
www.fiberworks-pcw.com

PatternMakerPro (graph paper drafts)
www.hobbyware.com

PatternWeaveSimulator
http://www.mhsoft.com

WeaveIt
www.weaveit.com

ARCHAEOLOGY ASSISTANCE

J.M. Adovasio, Ph.D., D.Sc., Professor, Anthropology, Archaeology and Geology and Director of the Science Division, Mercyhurst Archaeology Institute, Erie PA

J.S. Illingworth, Director of Curation and Conservation and Supervisor, R. L. Andrews Center for Perishables Analysis at Mercyhurst Archaeological Institute, Erie PA

Edward Jolie and Ruth Burgett, Research Assistants, Anthroplogy Research Museum, University of Nevada at Reno

MUSEUMS/INSTITUTIONS

Alling Coverlet Museum, Palmyra NY
http://www.palmyrany.com/historicpal/alling

American Textile History Museum, Lowell MA
www.athm.org/athfame.htm

Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge MA
www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/busch

Home Textile Tool Museum, Rome NY
www.hometextiletoolmuseum.org

Jefferson County Historical Society, Watertown NY
Fred H. Rollins, Director

Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Bethany CT
www.albersfoundation.org

The National Museum of African Art, Branch of the Smithsonian Institution
www.nmafa.si.edu

Ontario Science Centre, Toronto Canada
www.ontariosciencecentre.ca

Shelburne Museum, Shelbourne VT
www.shelburnemuseum.org

RESOURCES AND SUPPLIERS

SOME KEY INTERNET LINKS

NOTE: If a web site does not go through, before www place http:// and after a name without htm or html place / We will attempt to keep these web sites up-to-date. Please advise us if a site does not connect for you.

Ruthe Stowe’s web site is the most complete site of links to fiber-related sites on the internet:

NEW WEB ADDRESS!

http://weavingworld.ca/weave.htm Surf for looms and wheels and other equipment, software, weaving and spinning guilds and associations, museums and exhibits, events calendars, fiber-related mailing lists, cyber-exchanges, books and videos and other supplies, workshop instruction at schools and conferences and sponsoring groups, fibers and yarns, internet chat lines, artists and inspiration, conservation and restoration, emags and newsletters, buying and selling.

Ron Parker’s list is the List of Lists for hundreds of fiber-related lists and chat rooms: http://hem.bredband.net/ronpar/ListOfLists.html

For the most extensive bibliography of textile books, including pdf files to download of many out-of-print textile books: www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/books.html

 

SOURCES OF LOOM BUILDING PLANS

Art McCathey for a comprehensive list of sources
www.halfwaytree.com/looms

For a number of plans
www.craftdesigns.freeserve.co.uk/weaving.html

For making a backstrap loom
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/4906/bckstrap.html

For Navajo loom plans:
Wild West Weaver
51 Danbury Rd., Suite 248, Dept H, Ridgefield CT 06877
http://members.aol.com/wwweaver1

 

For making a loom with a fly shuttle
www.lanavette.com/construireUS.htm

 

USED LOOMS, EQUIPMENT AND TEXTILE ITEMS

Check with local guilds and guild newsletters

 

For spinners and weavers’ housecleaning pp (click on the yellow boxes)
http://together.net/~kbruce/kbbspin.htm

For weaving sales list on yahoo; to subscribe send a blank email to
weaving_sales_ads-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

Where to buy and sell weaving, spinning & other textile-related items
http://together.net/~kbruce/kbbspin.htm

 

MORE WEB SITES TO REMEMBER

Check my website regularly -- www.artsstudio.org

Other special sites for specific handweaving interests:

 

ORGANIZATIONS YOU SHOULD KNOW

Handweavers Guild of America, our national organization: puts out Shuttle, Spindle and Dyepot Magazine; contact them to locate a guild to join near you!
www.weavespindye.org

The Complex Weavers is an organization which puts out a great CW Journal 3x a year and has dozens of active topic-specific study groups: “From Four to More” to “Computer Aided Design Exchange”. My study group is “Fabric Analysis” should you have a special interest in this:
www.complex-weavers.org

 

SE ASIA COTTAGE INDUSTRIES

Support these sources for fabulous handwoven textiles

Studio Naenna, Chiang Mai, Thailand
www.infothai.com/naenna

Lao Textiles, Vientiane, Laos
www.laotextiles.com

 

LOOMS AND EQUIPMENT

AVL Looms, 601 Orange Street, Chico CA 95928; 800-626-9615
www.avlusa.com

Harrisville Designs, Center Village, Post Office Box 806, Harrisville, New Hampshire, 03450;800-338-9415
www.harrisville.com

LeClerc Looms
www.leclerclooms.com

Macomber Looms, Beech Ridge Rd., P.O. Box 186, York ME 03909 (or retailers) 207-363-2808

Glimakra
1338 Ross St., Petaluma CA 94954; 800-289-9276
www.vavsked.se/English/indexen.htm

Louet
www.louet.com

 

MORE VENDORS FOR YARNS AND EQUIPMENT

Grandor Industries
366Cypress Crest, Escondido CA 92025 for the McMorran Balance

Habu Textiles, 135 West 29 St., Suite 403, NYC 10001
www.habutextiles.com

Harrisville Designs
Harrisville NY 03450
www.harrisville.com

The Mannings, 1132 Green Ridge Rd., PO Box 687, East Berlin PA 17316; 800-233-7166
www.the-mannings.com

Robin and Russ Handweavers Inc., 522 North Adams St., McMinnville OR 97128; 800-932-8391
www.robinandruss.com

Textura Trading Company, 50 Potash Hill Rd., Cummington MA 01026; 877-TEXTURA
www.texturatrading.com

Webs Yarn Merchants, PO Box 147, Service Center Rd., Northampton MA 01061-0147; 800-FOR-WEBS
www.yarn.com


The Woolery
PO Box 486, Murfreesboro NC 27855
www.woolery.com

The Yarn Barn, 918 Massachusetts St., Lawrence KS 66044, 800-468-0035
www.yarnbarn-ks.com

Yarns Plus, 1314 Crossfield Bend, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada L5G 3P4; 877-448-4544
www.yarnsplus.com

 

 

FABRICS AND DYE PRODUCTS

Kasuri Dye Works for information on traditional Japanese textiles and wonderful fabrics to order: shibori, katazome, yukata, kinu, blends: 888-841-6997
www.kasuridyeworks.com/main/kdtextiles.html



CLASSIC BOOKS AND REFERENCES

In addition to books listed separately under Resources, Chapter by Chapter, note these classics:

 

Black, Mary, New Key to Weaving – A Textbook of Hand Weaving for the Beginning Weaver, MacMillan Publishing Co. Inc., many editions (mine is 19 th in 1979).

Bress, Helene, The Weaving Book – Patterns and Ideas, Charles Scribner’s Sons, NYC, 1981.

Keasbey, Doramay, Designing with Blocks for Handweavers, self-published, 5031 Alta Vista Rd., Bethesda MD 20814, 1993.

Keasbey, Doramay, Sheer Delight – Handwoven Transparencies, Stellar Publishing House Inc., Petaluma CA 1990.

Meisch, Lynn A ., and Thames and Hudson, Editors, Traditional Textiles of the Andes, Life and Cloth in the Highlands, The Jeffrey Appleby Collection of Andean Textiles, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, 1997.

O’Connor, Paul, Loom-Controlled Double Weave, Dos Tejedoras Publishing Col, St. Paul MN, 1992 and More Loom Controlled Double Weave available from Norwood Enterprise, PO Box 349, Amherst MA 01004

Osterkamp, Peggy, Warping Your Loom and Tying On New Warps, Lease Sticks Press, 2 San Carlos Ave., Sausalito CA, 1995

Piroch, Sigrid, Design Challenges – Works of Elmer Wallace Hickman, ARTS STUDIO, 261 Harvey Rd., Foxburg PA 16036-0308, 1991
www.artsstudio.org

Weaver’s Companion , Handwoven Magazine, Piecework and other excellent magazines from Interweave Press, 201 East 4 Street, Loveland CO 80537, 2001
www.interweave.com

Van der Hoogt, Madelyn, The Complete Book of Drafting for Handweavers, ShuttleCraftBooks, 1993.

 

SOURCES FOR BOOKS AND MAGAZINES

Interweave Press for Handwoven, SpinOff, Beadwork, and other textile magazines plus many books on weaving plus spinning, knitting, needlework, beading and natural living: 201 East 4 Street, Loveland CO 80507
www.interweave.com

Unicorn Books and Crafts Inc., 1338 Ross St., Petaluma CA 94954; 800-289-9276
www.unicornbooks.com

University of Washington Press, PO Box 50096, Seattle WA 98145-5096 (search key word weaving)
www.washington.edu/uwpress

VIDEOS

Victorian Videos on fiber topics are available from The Yarn Barn; phone 800-468-0035, 930 Massachusetts, Lawrence, KS 66044.
www.yarnbarn-ks.com

Videos include introduction to weaving, warping and loom preparation, triangle loom weaving, rigid heddle, card weaving and neck pieces, supplementary warp patterning on an inkle loom, weave drafting, beginning 4 harness, tips and tricks, fabric structure and pattern, block weaving and shaft switching for rugs, doubleweave, tubular finishes on a backstrap loom, cut pile, garments, warp painting, color interaction for handweavers, tapestry, weaving with 4 selvedges on our looms, plus others on basketry, beadwork, crochet, knitting, fabric, thread, needlework, braiding, lacemaking, spinning, and more. In other words, included are many things you wondered about while reading this book!

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