The DRAFT QUIGLEY

摘要

Early-twentieth-century weavers inherited the weave structure summer and winter from colonial coverlet weavers and learned about it from Mary Atwater and Marguerite Davison. I like to imagine them forming correspondence study groups and asking "what if" questions. A weaver named Margaret Bergman asked, What if you used three tie-down shafts instead of summer and winter's two? And what if you threaded them in rosepath order? Thus Bergman was born. As with summer and winter-and all weaves in the "tied unit weave" category-a supplementary weft patterns a plain-weave cloth and is tied to the cloth by regularly spaced warp threads called tie-down ends. The rosepath threading and treadling orders of the tie-down ends in Bergman produce a diamondlike design within the pattern areas; see Figure 1.