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| Summer Blanket/Winter Sheet |
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| Overshot and Summer Winter |
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| Checked Blanketing |
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| Linens - pillowcases and sheets |
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| Fancy Bedcover Weaves |
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| Linen Towels |
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| Checked Linen |
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| Tow Linen Bags |
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| Kate Smith (left) and Mary Margaret Kirkpatrick (right) work up a draft in the studio Welcome to our opening post for 2011. We are excited to be starting our first long-term study program this month with a young college student from Memphis, Tennessee, Mary Margaret Kirkpatrick. She is going to be here for the winter, studying and weaving the textiles that would have been included in a 19th C. woman's wedding dowry - blankets, linens for the kitchen and bedstead, and a fancy bedcover. She will learn natural dyeing, spinning, and all the appropriate finishing techniques for each piece. There will be a strong historic element to her study of these textiles, and she will have access to our vast library of books and collection of antique textiles. She will keep you posted on her progress in upcoming posts. We are currently in the process of developing a curriculum for continuing intensive studies in historic textiles. Here is an outline of what we're going to be offering: CLOTHING FABRICS 8 week intensive Scottish Tweed Linen Checked Shirting Worsted Drugget Skirting Silk Twill Cotton Stripes Singles Wool Shawls 19th C. DOWRY TEXTILES 8 week intensive Summer Blanket/Winter Sheet Checked Wool Blanketing Linen Towels Linen Pillowcases Fancy Bedcover LINEN INTENSIVE 10 weeks Linen Towels - Huck & M's & O's Linen Tablecloth - Spot Weave Linen Shirting - Singles Plain Weave Linen Sheets Linen Pillowcases in Bird's Eye Checked Linen Napkins ETHNIC RUG TECHNIQUES 6 weeks Shaker Rag Rugs Swedish Krokbrog French Canadian Warp-Faced Jaspe Scottish Ingrain Kilim Tapestry Weft-Faced 19th C. Venetian Carpets |
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