Weaving Tartans

Author : Linda Tilson Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781723818028
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Weaving Tartans written by Linda Tilson Davis and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tartans are among some of the most ancient of fabrics and remain classics for fashion. Furthermore, tartan designs have worked their way into a wide array of commercial products. Planning and weaving tartans can be a challenge for weavers due to the complex color arrangements that are based on registered threadcounts for clans, districts and a host of other organizations that have adopted tartans as part of their identity. This book provides step-by-step instructions on:researching tartan setts and obtaining thread count information; planning and designing a tartan project;tips and tricks for successful tartan weaving; and more! Written for Beginning to Advanced Weavers

Author : Ann Sutton
Publisher : Arco
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tartans, Their Art and History written by Ann Sutton and published by Arco. This book was released on 1984 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows and identifies the tartans of Scotland, explains how they are woven, and recounts the myths surrounding their origins.

Author : Isabel Buschman
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810824034
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handweaving written by Isabel Buschman and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buschman annotates more than 550 books and periodical titles published on the techniques and history of handweaving from 1928 through October 1989. She includes works on how to weave_basic weaving texts, books on looms and equipment, and patterns both for weaving and for woven articles; handweaving history and historic fabrics from around the world; works on Native American weaving, ranging from the Chilkats of the Northwest coast of North America, to the Pueblos and Navajos of our Southwest, Mexico, and Central America, and on through the rich weaving culture of the Andes; reference works containing specialized bibliographies and information on fibers, dyes, education and marketing; and periodicals. With author, title, and subject indexes.

Author : James Desmond Scarlett
Publisher : Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tartan Weaver's Guide written by James Desmond Scarlett and published by Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers. This book was released on 1985 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume combines practical experience of tartan-weaving with a grasp of Highland social history. Aimed specifically at the amateur tartan-weaver, it contains much that should be of interest to students of either subject.

Author : Jonathan Faiers
Publisher : Berg Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781845203771
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tartan written by Jonathan Faiers and published by Berg Publishers. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tartan has colonized the world. The flexibility of its design and the traditionalism of its symbolism - as well as the travels of the Scots - have taken the fabric around the globe. Traditionally the visual sign of clanship and district, tartan was popularized outside Scotland by the tartan-clad Highland regiments and Queen Victoria's royal endorsement. Hollywood has continued to sustain the romantic fictions of tartan from Brigadoon to Braveheart. At the same time, designers such as Westwood and McQueen have deliberately subverted the traditional and historical associations of the fabric, as have contemporary artists such as Matthew Barney. Post-punk, tartan now turns up in the most surprising places, influencing the conceptual clothing of a generation of Japanese designers such as Watanabe and Takahashi, the stage costumes of Outkast's Andre 3000 and contemporary interior design. Beautifully illustrated and weaving together a story out of history, art, music, film and fashion, Tartan contains everything you ever wanted to know about this most radical and most traditional of fabrics.

Author : William H. Johnston
Publisher : Schiffer Craft
ISBN 13 : 9780764309625
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tartans written by William H. Johnston and published by Schiffer Craft. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second of three volumes provides over 400 colorful examples of vividly striped Scottish tartans covering the names Frederickton to MacNeil.

Author : Osma Gallinger Tod
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486234588
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Joy of Hand Weaving written by Osma Gallinger Tod and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only book you'll need on thefundamentals ofthreads and weaves, plus numerous projects for beginner to advanced weavers, plus two-harness looms, four-harness looms, fabrics, colors, much more. Over 160 illustrations."

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 898 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America's Textile Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Donald Calder Stewart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780856830150
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Setts of the Scottish Tartans written by Donald Calder Stewart and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James D. Scarlett
Publisher : Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780856831201
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Tartan written by James D. Scarlett and published by Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers. This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Something of a doubtful mist still hangs over these Highland traditions, nor can it be entirely dispelled by the most ingenious researches of modern criticism...' So wrote D.C.Stewart in the Preface to the first edition of The Setts of the Scottish Tartans published in 1950. His definitive work did much to remedy the situation, but subsequent further research made the need for a new book apparent. The author combines practical experience with a grasp of Highland social history in this book, which although aimed specifically at the amateur tartan-weaver, contains much of which will be of interest to students of either subject. The weaver is provided with precise hints on the special requirements of weaving tartan including threadcounts, accompanied by historical notes for 228 tartans, 142 of them illustrated in glowing colours which seem to reflect the lakes, sky, hills and valleys of Scotland. There are concise and informative articles on tartan pattern, colour, yarn, thread counts, yarn thicknesses and the actual weaving of the cloth. The basis of any tartan, as the author points out, is a simple two-colour check which may be varied by the addition of over-checks, bands and stripes in contrasting colours so arranged as to give a balanced and harmonious pattern.The author's interest in tartan brought him early into contact with the Scottish Tartans Society and with the late Donald C. Stewart with whom he collaborated over several years in a serious study of the subject, collaboration which resulted in the publication of a number of books, most recently his definitive work Tartan: The Highland Textile.His advice has been sought on the design of new tartans, notably the American Bicentennial, but his main interest is in the old ones. As one of the few specialist handweavers of tartan, he concentrated on making facsimiles and wove a reproduction of a pre-1745 plaid for the National Trust for Scotland's Centre at Culloden. In 1994 he handed his extensive archive, covering about one hundred years of serious tartan research, to the Highland Regional Archive for its preservation and for the benefit of future students.