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The Art of Weaving
By ELSE REGENSTEINER

Weaving has many faces: it is a craft, a medium for working directly with fundamental materials
to create joyful mixtures of textures and colors, to feel the
accom plishment of mastering the tools and learning the steps, and to explore the discipline of
fine craftsmanship. It is an art, an expression of our time,
which can have the brilliance of a painting, the dimensions of sculpture, the shape of
invention, and the form of imagination. It is functional, intimately related
to us through our daily use of fabrics. It is an industrial product made speedily by the power
loom, but unchanged in its basic construction of interlocking
threads, and it is as individual as its creator will make it. It is a tool for the educator and
a technique for the therapist; it is romantic and sober, an cient and
contemporary. --from the Preface

In comprehensive text, diagrams, drafts, and examples of fine woven fabrics, this book about the
art and craft of weaving offers complete coverage of the
materials and equipment, the techniques and, most important, the creative possibilities of the
medium.

The Art of Weaving is an indispensable handbook forevery weaver, beginner and expert. Included
here are not only the fundamentals of weaving essential
information about looms and other equipment, yarns, how to design a warp and warp the loom,
drafting, the basic weaves, and pattern weaves, but also how
to ap ply this knowledge to discover the many faces of weav ing. Many different weave structures
are covered: double weaves, tapestry techniques, knotted,
pile, and flat- woven rugs, and two- and three-dimensional wall hang ings.

This book not only teaches the techniques, simple and complex, of weaving; it stimulates
creative expres sion. An entire chapter is devoted to design
composi tion, color, form and function, the sources of inspiration.

Every weaver will appreciate, too, these special fea tures of The Art of Weaving: how to make
and weave with a back-strap loom, how to estimate yardage
for warp and weft, how to convert rising-shed loom direc tions for use with a sinking shed; how
to read any draft, and a comprehensive glossary of the
weaver's language.

With many diagrams and drafts and over 200 black and-white and color photographs of the finest
contem porary weaving.