Hand-Loom Weaving; A Manual for School and Home (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ...lifting the cloth out when adding the acid to the dye bath." Excellent suggestions by Mrs. Albee for color schemes in stripes may be found on pages 64 and 65. Mrs. Albee is prepared to furnish any of the foregoing dyes at 20 cents an ounce. Her address is Mrs. Helen R. Albee, Pequaket, Silver Lake P. O., N. H. METHODS OF SPLICING MATERIALS FOR WEAVING CUCH materials as carpets and oriental wools, fine worsteds, carpet ravelings, darning and knitting cotton should, in splic-ing, be run past each other. In weaving, run the wool through the warp to the very end. Start the new piece a few warp threads back (about an inch), being careful to go over and under exactly the same warp threads as when finishing the end. As you pass these threads you will find you are taking up the right warp threads, and that no mistake has been made. It is best to run the threads past each other in the middle of the mat rather than on the sides. The chil-dren learn this method of splicing very quickly and the result is much more satis-factory than knotting, because the back of the rug or mat will be smooth. As Mrs. Wiggins says: "There should never be a wrong side to work any more than there should be to folks." In splicing such materials as silkoline, rags, candle-wicking, chenille, and macreme Woolens, fine worsteds, ravelings, and cottons Silkoline, I cheesecloth, I rags cord, lay the end of one piece over another, each lapping about one-quarter inch, and sew securely with silk or thread of like color. Cut off the selvedge ends of rags. These strips can be run past each other, but the work will not be so smooth. In splicing Germantown wool, heavy worsteds, or rope silk, thread a worsted needle with one strand obtained by unwinding the wool or...