FROM THE EDITOR

摘要

I DISTINCTLY REMEMBER listening to a new guild member explaining how she needed to buy an eight-shaft loom so she could weave overshot. To a nonweaver or, in that case, a new weaver, overshot seems complex and mysterious-hence her mistake. At its core, overshot is a four-shaft structure, and for that reason it has been loved by weavers on the North American continent for centuries.