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second rug book was part of a deal with Ib Bellew, the publisher.
If I wrote such a book which he felt had a good chance of selling well,
he would as a quid pro quo undertake to publish one on ply-splitting (
to me the most important next project) about which his hopes were less
sanguine!
So I searched for all the new things I had discovered since writing TRW; this meant trawling through recent teaching notes and searching for scribbled additions in my battered copy of TRW. Eventually I found sufficient unpublished material for a new rug weaving book. Most was in the form of further developments of techniques already described. Shaft Switching which had only occurred to me as TRW neared completion had become my sole method of rug weaving and so there were several advances here, including the time-saving lever-platform I now use and which is found on the Harrisville rug loom. But maybe, visually, the greatest difference in this book was the fact that David Cripps took all the interleaved photos, half of which were in colour. So for once the samples I especially wove for this purpose concentrated on colour as well as design.
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Weaving Techniques, beyond the basics, published by Ib Bellew, 1990,
hardback, ISBN 0-934026-62-9.
160 pages. 136 diagrams, 71 plates, half in colour, by David Cripps. Unfortunately, this book is now out-of-print... though copies do turn up on second-hand book lists. BUT Ralph Griswold has kindly added this to his impressive list of textile texts. So it is now available for anyone to read or download at will. The site is at www.handweaving.net/DAHome.aspx The site's official name is "On-line Digital Archive of Documents on Weaving and Related Topics"; altogether an amazing undertaking. |
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