Number 6, April 2005 Webside Ralph E. Griswold http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/ Contents this-month.html Graphics .............................................................. 1 When the first additions are made in May, Recent Additions to the Website .................... 1 this-month.html will become the May page. To get English Translations of Titles Needed .......... 2 the April additions after that time, use From Our Mail.................................................... 2 2005-04.html Special Collections on the Web ...................... 3 Website Catabase? ............................................. 3 Highlights Exploring the Website, Part 5: Periodicals ....................................................... 4 April was a banner month for the website in two areas: books and periodicals. Weaving Drafts and Copyright ....................... 5 Books University of Washington Libraries Special Collections ........................................ 7 • Peter Collingwood‘s two rug weaving books, Lace Corner, Part 5: Filet Lace ......................... 8 The Techniques of Rug Weaving, and Rug Weav- ing Techniques: Beyond the Basics. This is a CD List ................................................................. 9 truly marvelous addition to the website, and Web Links ......................................................... 10 we all should be grateful to Peter Collingwood for his generosity in making this possible. • Two weaving pattern books, A. A. Baldwin’s Graphics A Treatise on Designing and Weaving Plain and Fancy Woolen Cloths, and thanks to a loan The masthead graphic is the Ross Hunting from Peter Collingwood‘s personal library, Tartan. A draft is available on Handweaving.net V. A. and A. G. Dolivo-Dobrovolsky‘s Al’bom {1}: ID=13812. You’ll find many other attractive tkachestva uzorvb [Album of Weaving Pat- tartans on Handweaving.net. terns]. The cartoons that appear here and there in Periodicals this issue of Webside were done by Phyllis Tidball and appeared in the Threadbender Newsletter that • The first two years of the Shuttle-Craft Bulletin, accompanied some issues of Shuttle-Craft Bulletin in the period when it was written by Harriet Tidball. Recent Additions to the Website The Page of the Month As of this writing, April additions to the web- site are listed on Webside 6 / 1 thanks to Nancy McKenna. – first, I don‘t like the ‘topics‘ vs ‘weaving • 77 issues of Handweaving News. topics‘ lists… very hard in my experience to keep up 2 lists of the same without lapses :-)! Maybe all • Four issues of Handicrafter, including the first weaving topics should be reconciled with the origi- issue. nal topics, even if you have to move all the similar topics to a separate weaving page?? Acknowledgments – something called ‘old Egyptian lace‘ and • Peter Collingwood listed solely under ‘Egypt‘ should also be listed • Nancy McKenna under ‘sprang‘, because that‘s what it discusses even though it doesn‘t have the term: • Interlibrary Loan staff at the University of Arizona /articles/gpe_net.pdf • Lena Dahren – ‘twine‘ vs ‘twining‘ vs ‘twinning‘?? Make it • Marji Suhm all ‘twining‘ and/or fold under ‘braiding‘ :–). Clearly synonyms would be a good thing here, and Planned Additions twinning is misspelled to begin with. – More importantly, Peter Collingwood wrote • More early years of the Shuttle-Craft Bulletin. a great 3-part article on ply-split braiding for Weav- • Issues and articles from Volumes 4 and 5 of ers, parts 1 and 2 are listed correctly and together Posselt’s Textile Journal. under ‘braiding‘, but part 3 is lost under ‘oblique twinning‘: English Translations of Titles Needed /articles/cp_obtwn.pdf Thanks! Some great stuff for the sprang I was There are many documents on the website in looking for :–). languages other than English but which lack En- glish translations of their titles. — Marie-Christine Mahe If you come across a title that lacks an English Editor’s comment: Thanks. We have these on the translation that you can provide, please drop me a agenda of things to deal with. note. And, of course, if you can correct a bad ___________________________________________ translation, tell me too. According to the New York Times, “The Brook- [email protected] lyn Museum has received a 4 million dollar grant to catalogue and photograph its rich collection of Tip: The easiset way to find such documents is American and European costumes and accesso- languages.html. ries, most of which have been out of public view for more than a decade … From Our Mail For the first time a detailed record of all its pieces will be created, with a digital image of each Hi Ralph, dress, purse, scarf, shoe, hat, earring and brooch. First, let me thank you for your wonderful Four thousand of the most important pieces site, which I refer to regularly... will be photographed at high resolution and at But I‘ve found a couple of discrepancies, which some point made available for viewing online by I can‘t resist pointing out: scholars …” The collection consists of 70,000 pieces, con- sidered one of the five best in the world. It has suffered during the budgetary woes of the Brook- lyn Museum and may eventually be donated to the Fashion Institute or the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It is not uncommon to see photos of lace in the 2 / Webside 6 Brooklyn Museum, lace of a very high quality, in Special Collections on the Web old lace books. But all my attempts to actually see the lace have been unsuccessful due to the budget- Many libraries have special collections that ary woes and lack of cataloguing. contain rare and fragile material as well as topical It is unclear to me whether all the lace that was collections of photographs and ephemera. Some there is still there, also. special collections hold millions of items gathered over time. In any case, Hooray! Material in a special collection does not circu- — Devon M.Thein late. It must be viewed at the special collections ____________________________________________ facility and usually is accessible only to patrons of the library. Bobbin Lace is Weaving Many libraries list some or all of their special It is often the case that a class offered in collection material on the Web. See Link 2 on page lacemaking does not reach the audience who might 10 for a listing of over 5,000 such sites. be most interested in it, weavers. The word lace, to a lot of people, means the polyester trim on their Unfortunately, but understandably, most such underwear. websites only list what their holdings are and do not provide digital facsimiles that anyone can view. In reality it is an open warp weaving tech- nique of unlimited possibilities. The following is a As time passes and resources become avail- sample description of a class in which people would able, more digital facsimile collections will go actually learn modern lacemaking, but omits the online. See the article “University of Washington term "lace" which is likely to be misunderstood by Libraries Digital Collections” on page 7 for one those most likely to enjoy the class. that is fully developed. Modern Open Warp Weaving: Website Database? Using two simple weaving movements, stu- dents will experience the freedom to design com- Marie-Christine Mahe recently made a num- plex woven structures without the limitations im- ber of suggestions for improvements to the web- posed by a loom. Based on renaissance techniques, site. One was to provide a database in which docu- open warp weaving allows the student to weave in ments could be looked up according to their at- any shape, in any direction, even three dimension- tributes. ally with an almost unlimited range of textural and This certainly would be a valuable addition to patterning techniques. the website. And databases of website documents Students may choose to work this exciting already exist, one for each kind of document, as fiber art in color or to explore the full range of well as a few others for maintenance purposes. contrasting patterns of positive and negative space These databases currently are used to organize which find their best expression in monochrome. information about documents, and they are used by programs to generate web pages. However, the If you are a weaver and think you would database program used does not provide suitable enjoy this technique, you should overcome any interactive web access. qualms you may have as a result of associating lace Providing a suitable database facility for us- with the cheap industrial product. The trim avail- ers of the website is a different matter. It certainly able for sale at the Rag Shop bears no more relation- would take a lot of time and effort. ship to hand-made modern lace than a matchbook Here there is a question of priorities: time and cover does to a Da Vinci or a Picasso. Sign up for effort spend toward making material on the web- Lacemaking and experience the Weaving tech- site more accessible versus time and effort spent nique that will make any effect achievable. adding new content. — Devon M. Thein I’ve not yet made a decision on this, but I am exploring options and am trying to learn more. Webside 6 / 3 Exploring the Website, Part 5: The web page for periodicals has a different Periodicals format from those for books and monographs. Instead of links to documents, there are links to To me, periodicals as a group are the most pages for the various publications. See the screen interesting documents on the website. Most of the snap below. periodicals relate to weaving. They vary from pri- The sample image for a periodical is from a vately produced, low-budget newsletters like Loom typical issue. Some periodicals vary substantially Music to polished magazines like Handweaver and in content from issue to issue, so the degree to Craftsman. Subjects range from handweaving to which a sample is representative of the periodical industrial textiles. varies. In their different forms, they reveal much The listings show the last date an issue of the about the history and development of weaving in periodical was added to the website.