Marianne Fairbanks, impractical Weaving Suggestions

摘要

"Every weaver should weave at least one bed-spread before she dies." Berta Frey's detailed account of how to do so appeared in Practical Weaving Suggestions, one of the many home weaving journals that circulated throughout the 20th century, accompanied by hand-drawn charts that annotate the pattern. Like much of the writing in the journal, Berta's conversational writing is open and inviting even as it is written with the stiff and technical precision required of the dedicated home-weaving eye: If we consider 1-2, 2-4,1-2, 2-4,1-3, 2-4 to be the A unit of treadling and 3-4, 1-3, 3-4, 1-3, 2-4, 1-3 to be the B unit, then the complete treadling for one repeat of the pattern is: A five times, B five times, A two times, B three times, A two times, B five times, A five times, B two times, A three times, B two times.