Weaving With Small Appliances - Book II - Tablet Weaving

Luther Hooper

• Publisher: Obscure Press
• Year: 2011
• eBook ISBN:
  9781447492283
• Print ISBN:
  9781408694367

This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to tablet weaving, with information on basic principles, notes on proper technique, handy tips, directions for application, and much more. We have selected this book for modern republication due to its educational value, and highly recommend it for those looking for an introduction to the subject. Contents include: "How Tablet Weaving Differs in Principles from Weaving on the Board Loom, as Described in Book I", "The Tablets and the Weaving Stool", "The Warp on the Loom and Mounting the Tablets", "threading the Tablets", "Yarns Suitable for Use in Tablet Weaving", "Beginning to Wave Braid", etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on the history of textiles and weaving.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Coloured Plates
• Introduction
• I. How Tablet Weaving Differs in Principle from Weaving on the Board Loom, as Described in Book I
• II. The Tablets and the Weaving Stand
• III. The Warp and How to Make it
• IV. Fixing the Warp on the Loom and Mounting the Tablets
• V. Threading the Tablets
• VI. Yarns Suitable for Use in Tablet Weaving
• VII. Beginning to Weave Braid
• VIII. Ornamental Weaving with Tablets
• IX. Designs of Coloured Stripes
• X. Designs of Checkers or Dice Patterns
• XI. Designs of Checkers Mixed with Plain Vertical Stripes
• XII. Designs on Plate IV and the Frontispiece Explained by Means of Plate V
• XIII. Diagonals and Chevrons
• XIV. Reversing
• Index