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This book features the original sample collection and handwritten drafts of the talented, early 20th century weaver, Bertha Gray Hayes of Providence, Rhode Island. She designed and wove miniature overshot patterns for four-harness looms that are creative and unique. The book contains color reproductions of 72 original sample cards and 20 recently discovered patterns, many shown with a picture of the woven sample, and each with computer-generated drawdowns and drafting patterns.

Her designs are unique in their asymmetry and personal in her use of name drafting to create the designs. Bertha Hayes attended the first nine National Conferences of American Handweavers (1938-1946). She learned to weave by herself through the Shuttle-Craft home course and was a charter member of the Shuttle-Craft Guild, and authored articles on weaving.

This book features the original sample collection and handwritten drafts of the talented, early 20th century weaver, Bertha Gray Hayes of Providence, Rhode Island. She designed and wove miniature overshot patterns for four-harness looms that are creative and unique. The book contains color reproductions of 72 original sample cards and 20 recently discovered patterns, many shown with a picture of the woven sample, and each with computer-generated drawdowns and drafting patterns. Her designs are unique in their asymmetry and personal in her use of name drafting to create the designs.

Bertha Hayes attended the first nine National Conferences of American Handweavers (1938-1946). She learned to weave by herself through the Shuttle-Craft home course and was a charter member of the Shuttle-Craft Guild, and authored articles on weaving.

Features the original sample collection and handwritten drafts of the talented, early 20th century weaver, Bertha Gray Hayes of Providence, Rhode Island. She designed and wove miniature overshot patterns for four-harness looms that are creative and unique. The book contains color reproductions of 72 original sample cards and 20 recently discovered patterns, many shown with a picture of the woven sample, and each with computer-generated drawdowns and drafting patterns. Her designs are unique in their asymmetry and personal in her use of name drafting to create the designs. Bertha Hayes attended the first nine National Conferences of American Handweavers (1938-1946). She learned to weave by herself through the Shuttle-Craft home course and was a charter member of the Shuttle-Craft Guild, and authored articles on weaving.

This book features the original sample collection and handwritten drafts of the talented, early 20th century weaver, Bertha Gray Hayes of Providence, Rhode Island. She designed and wove miniature overshot patterns for four-harness looms that are creative and unique. The book contains color reproductions of 72 original sample cards and 20 recently discovered patterns, many shown with a picture of the woven sample, and each with computer-generated drawdowns and drafting patterns. Her designs are unique in their asymmetry and personal in her use of name drafting to create the designs.

Bertha Hayes attended the first nine National Conferences of American Handweavers (1938-1946). She learned to weave by herself through the Shuttle-Craft home course and was a charter member of the Shuttle-Craft Guild, and authored articles on weaving.

This book features the original sample collection and handwritten drafts of the talented, early 20th century weaver, Bertha Gray Hayes of Providence, Rhode Island. She designed and wove miniature overshot patterns for four-harness looms that are creative and unique. The book contains color reproductions of 72 original sample cards and 20 recently discovered patterns, many shown with a picture of the woven sample, and each with computer-generated drawdowns and drafting patterns. Her designs are unique in their asymmetry and personal in her use of name drafting to create the designs. Bertha Hayes attended the first nine National Conferences of American Handweavers (1938-1946). She learned to weave by herself through the Shuttle-Craft home course and was a charter member of the Shuttle-Craft Guild, and authored articles on weaving.

This book features the original sample collection and handwritten drafts of the talented, early 20th century weaver, Bertha Gray Hayes of Providence, Rhode Island. She designed and wove miniature overshot patterns for four-harness looms that are creative and unique. The book contains color reproductions of 72 original sample cards and 20 recently discovered patterns, many shown with a picture of the woven sample, and each with computer-generated drawdowns and drafting patterns. Her designs are unique in their asymmetry and personal in her use of name drafting to create the designs. Bertha Hayes attended the first nine National Conferences of American Handweavers (1938-1946). She learned to weave by herself through the Shuttle-Craft home course and was a charter member of the Shuttle-Craft Guild, and authored articles on weaving.

Weavers will enjoy this book tremendously but I would not consider it something a novice would want to leap into. The warps were once easily acquired but they are not available on spools the way they were when these looms were manufactured. We don"t typically use threads that fine nowadays so one might have to use sewing thread or quilting thread to get the suggested number of threads per inch. However, a different sett can be used without much effort and still use the same threading sequence. The style is a bit different as not all the patterns have the type of treadling sequence designs that we commonly use today. The weaver who provided the subject of this book had an incredible imagination and had some clever ways to invent new patterns. The book is interesting to me just for its historical value and not just the patterns. The use of overshot is not common in today"s clothing, but the designs are still extremely useful in items like dish towels and place mats that have contrasting borders. And, if someone likes to be historically correct in their weaving, there"s always an opportunity to attempt a coverlet. The main thing anyone should remember when beginning to experiment with overshot is that the base weave is done in a finer thread or yarn than the overshot pattern. Otherwise there will be gaps in the pattern or it will be very distorted from what was originally expected. I never really thought about how many options are possible with just 4 shafts. This book was inspiring in that respect.

I have recently bought a wonderful book with a great story and some great overshot patterns. "Weaving Designs by Bertha Gray Hayes-Miniature Overshot Patterns".

I had been browsing through the book and found an overshot pattern that I really liked. It is called Jitterbug and originally had a 228 thread count repeat. This would be too wide for a scarf, so fortunately Bertha re configured many of the old overshot patterns into miniature. In her book is a 62 thread count repeat. I warped 2/10 mercerized cotton and will use lace weight Alpaca for the weft.

The book tells a great story of a women that lived in the early 1900"s. She lived through WW2 and some of her unique patterns depict those times (Victory). She designed patterns and named them after her friends (Peggy"s Choice). When she became terminally ill with stomach cancer she named a pattern (Gastric Ulcer). Even naming a pattern after the hospital she stayed in for her last 10 days (Miriam Hospital). The book goes on to tell her story and there is a picture in it of the participants at the National Conference of American Handweavers 1940. At the time the book was published no one could identify her, but I emailed the Rhode Island Weavers Guild to see if by any chance someone did identify her after the book was published and got a response back. So if you have this book on page 20 she is the woman 2nd in on the left of the 2nd row. Now we have a face to associate all those wonderful patterns to.

Weavers will enjoy this book tremendously but I would not consider it something a novice would want to leap into. The warps were once easily acquired but they are not available on spools the way they were when these looms were manufactured. We don"t typically use threads that fine nowadays so one might have to use sewing thread or quilting thread to get the suggested number of threads per inch. However, a different sett can be used without much effort and still use the same threading sequence. The style is a bit different as not all the patterns have the type of treadling sequence designs that we commonly use today. The weaver who provided the subject of this book had an incredible imagination and had some clever ways to invent new patterns. The book is interesting to me just for its historical value and not just the patterns. The use of overshot is not common in today"s clothing, but the designs are still extremely useful in items like dish towels and place mats that have contrasting borders. And, if someone likes to be historically correct in their weaving, there"s always an opportunity to attempt a coverlet. The main thing anyone should remember when beginning to experiment with overshot is that the base weave is done in a finer thread or yarn than the overshot pattern. Otherwise there will be gaps in the pattern or it will be very distorted from what was originally expected. I never really thought about how many options are possible with just 4 shafts. This book was inspiring in that respect.

Miniature Overshot PatternsThis book features the original sample collection and handwritten drafts of the talented, early 20th century weaver, Bertha Gray Hayes of Providence, Rhode Island. She designed and wove miniature overshot patterns for four-harness looms that are creative and unique. The book contains color reproductions of 72 original sample cards and 20 recently discovered patterns, many shown with a picture of the woven sample, and each with computer-generated drawdowns and drafting patterns. Her designs are unique in their asymmetry and personal in her use of name drafting to create the designs.

Bertha Hayes attended the first nine National Conferences of American Handweavers (1938-1946). She learned to weave by herself through the Shuttle-Craft home course and was a charter member of the Shuttle-Craft Guild, and authored articles on weaving. hardcover, 208 pages

Miniature Overshot PatternsThis book features the original sample collection and handwritten drafts of the talented, early 20th century weaver, Bertha Gray Hayes of Providence, Rhode Island. She designed and wove miniature overshot patterns for four-harness looms that are creative and unique. The book contains color reproductions of 72 original sample cards and 20 recently discovered patterns, many shown with a picture of the woven sample, and each with computer-generated drawdowns and drafting patterns. Her designs are unique in their asymmetry and personal in her use of name drafting to create the designs.

Bertha Hayes attended the first nine National Conferences of American Handweavers (1938-1946). She learned to weave by herself through the Shuttle-Craft home course and was a charter member of the Shuttle-Craft Guild, and authored articles on weaving. hardcover, 208 pages

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This book features the original sample collection and handwritten drafts of the talented, early 20th century weaver, Bertha Gray Hayes of Providence, Rhode Island. She designed and wove miniature overshot patterns for four-harness looms that are creative and unique. The book contains color reproductions of 72 original sample cards and 20 recently discovered patterns, many shown with a picture of the woven sample, and each with computer-generated drawdowns and drafting patterns. Her designs are unique in their asymmetry and personal in her use of name drafting to create the designs.

Bertha Hayes attended the first nine National Conferences of American Handweavers (1938-1946). She learned to weave by herself through the Shuttle-Craft home course and was a charter member of the Shuttle-Craft Guild, and authored articles on weaving.

This book features the original sample collection and handwritten drafts of the talented, early 20th century weaver, Bertha Gray Hayes of Providence, Rhode Island. She designed and wove miniature overshot patterns for four-harness looms that are creative and unique. The book contains color reproductions of 72 original sample cards and 20 recently discovered patterns, many shown with a picture of the woven sample, and each with computer-generated drawdowns and drafting patterns. Her designs are unique in their asymmetry and personal in her use of name drafting to create the designs. Bertha Hayes attended the first nine National Conferences of American Handweavers (1938-1946). She learned to weave by herself through the Shuttle-Craft home course and was a charter member of the Shuttle-Craft Guild, and authored articles on weaving. show more

By Norma Smayda, Gretchen White, Jody Brown, and Katharine Schelleng. These four weavers have assembled the sample collection of miniature overshot patterns for four harness looms created in the early 20th century by Bertha Gray Hayes. The book contains color reproductions and computer-generated drawdowns for 92 designs. These differ from traditional overshot designs in that they are often based on name drafts and many are not woven "as drawn in", giving many of them a dynamic, asymmetrical style.

This book features the original sample collection and handwritten drafts of the talented, early 20th century weaver, Bertha Gray Hayes of Providence, Rhode Island. She designed and wove miniature overshot patterns for four-harness looms that are creative and unique. The book contains color reproductions of 72 original sample cards and 20 recently discovered patterns, many shown with a picture of the woven sample, and each with computer-generated drawdowns and drafting patterns. Her designs are unique in their asymmetry and personal in her use of name drafting to create the designs. Bertha Hayes attended the first nine National Conferences of American Handweavers (1938-1946). She learned to weave by herself through the Shuttle-Craft home course and was a charter member of the Shuttle-Craft Guild, and authored articles on weaving.