Weaving With Small Appliances - Book III - The Table Loom - Paperback

by Luther Hooper (Author)

WEAVING WITH SMALL APPLIANCES. BOOK III- The Table Loom. Originally published in 1925. The appliances for weaving, and the instructions for using them, which are described in this book are specially designed for and adapted to the use of students. The table-loom has been carefully planned by the author so as to be adapted not only for weaving plain fabrics for domestic use, but to furnish the student of ornamental weaving with a loom on which a great range of designs can be worked out with the least amount of tedious alteration of the mounting and mechanism. A description of the essential parts of the loom, the method of fitting it up, the appliances for preparing the warps as well as entering them in the loom and setting to work, as well as typical designs and specifications are all contained in the chapters of this book. Many of the earliest books on weaving, textiles and needlework, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly ex