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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 Jaggerspun Yarn, Water St., Springvale
ME 04050; 800-225-8023 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 (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) PatternMakerPro (graph paper drafts) PatternWeaveSimulator WeaveIt 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 American Textile History Museum,
Lowell MA Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard
University, Cambridge MA Home Textile Tool Museum, Rome NY Jefferson County Historical Society, Watertown NY Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Bethany CT The National Museum of African
Art, Branch of the Smithsonian Institution Ontario Science Centre, Toronto Canada Shelburne Museum, Shelbourne VT 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 For a number of plans For making a backstrap loom For Navajo loom plans: For making a loom with a fly shuttle
USED LOOMS, EQUIPMENT AND TEXTILE ITEMS Check with local guilds and guild newsletters
For spinners and weavers’ housecleaning
pp (click on the yellow boxes) For weaving sales list on yahoo;
to subscribe send a blank email to Where to buy and sell weaving,
spinning & other textile-related items
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! 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:
SE ASIA COTTAGE INDUSTRIES Support these sources for fabulous handwoven textiles Studio Naenna, Chiang Mai, Thailand Lao Textiles, Vientiane, Laos
LOOMS AND EQUIPMENT AVL Looms, 601 Orange Street, Chico
CA 95928; 800-626-9615 Harrisville Designs, Center Village,
Post Office Box 806, Harrisville, New Hampshire, 03450;800-338-9415 LeClerc Looms Macomber Looms, Beech Ridge Rd., P.O. Box 186, York ME 03909 (or retailers) 207-363-2808 Glimakra Louet
MORE VENDORS FOR YARNS AND EQUIPMENT Grandor Industries Habu Textiles, 135 West 29 St.,
Suite 403, NYC 10001 The Mannings, 1132 Green Ridge
Rd., PO Box 687, East Berlin PA 17316; 800-233-7166 Robin and Russ Handweavers Inc.,
522 North Adams St., McMinnville OR 97128; 800-932-8391 Textura Trading Company, 50 Potash
Hill Rd., Cummington MA 01026; 877-TEXTURA Webs Yarn Merchants, PO Box 147,
Service Center Rd., Northampton MA 01061-0147; 800-FOR-WEBS The Yarn Barn, 918 Massachusetts
St., Lawrence KS 66044, 800-468-0035 Yarns Plus, 1314 Crossfield Bend,
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada L5G 3P4; 877-448-4544
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
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 Weaver’s Companion , Handwoven
Magazine, Piecework and
other excellent magazines from Interweave Press, 201 East 4 Street, Loveland
CO 80537, 2001 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 Unicorn Books and Crafts Inc.,
1338 Ross St., Petaluma CA 94954; 800-289-9276 University of Washington Press,
PO Box 50096, Seattle WA 98145-5096 (search key word weaving) VIDEOS Victorian Videos on fiber topics are available from The Yarn Barn; phone
800-468-0035, 930 Massachusetts, Lawrence, KS 66044. 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! Recommend this web site to a friend! <www.artsstudio.org> Email ARTS STUDIO MailArtsStudio@aol.com Email Sigrid Piroch SigridArtsStudio@aol.com Email Webmaster ArtsWebMstr@aol.comMail ARTS STUDIO: 261 Harvey Rd., PO Box 308, Foxburg PA 16036/USA Fax ARTS STUDIO: 1-724-659-4124 |