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Welcome to the Mountain Loom Online Book List... Updated Jan. 12, 2010

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Knitting
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Knitting To order call 360-295-3856

Celebrity Scarves, Abra Edelman, $24.95 2 in stock
This book captures the essence of the Hollywood knitting circle by presenting more than twenty scarves designed and modeled by some of today's favorite leading ladies. From an eyelash muffler to a hybrid hat/handwarmer, each scarf is both unique in design and reflective of the creator's personality and style.

Corking, Judy Ann Sadler $4.95 4 in stock
Whether you call it knotting knobby, Bizzy Lizzy, knitting Nancy or just spool knitting, corking is a fun, easy no-mess craft. You can make stuffed animals, hats, scarves, doll clothes, hair scrunchees, finger puppets and baby mittens. Illustrated step-by-step instructions make it easy. This is a great book for kids and grandkids.

The Knitting Experience Book 1: The Knit Stitch, Sally Melville
$19.95 1 in stock
Inspiration and instruction to build your skills, wardrobe and confidence. A learn-to-knit book that's not just for beginners. Features: 25 go-for-it projects, the skills you need, the detail that matter, wardrobe-building styles and sizes, friendly advice, constant coaching, guidance through successful choices, and rescue techniques for common mistakes.

The Knitting Experience Book 2: The Purl Stitch, Sally Melville
$19.95 1 in stock
Become intuitive as your skills, wardrobe and confidence build beyond the knit stitch. A basics-and-beyond book for knitters at all levels. Features: 25 go-for-it projects, more skills you need, more details that matter, more wardrobe-building styles, friendly advice, constant coaching, guidance through successful choices, rescue techniques for common mistakes, and meditations on what knitting brings to your life.

Simple Knits With a Twist, Erika knight
$19.95 2 in stock
Twenty projects - which include wire napkin rings, an Aran armchair cover, and a net fabric bag - teach knitters how to add such creative skills as felting, patchwork, and beading to their repertoires. Each project is featured in a full-page color photo and in close-up how-to shots. For beginners with contemporary tastes and accomplished knitters interested in expanding their range, this book presents a world of amazing possibilities.

Maggie's Ireland: Designer Knits on Location, Maggie Jackson
$37.95 1 in stock
Maggie Jackson brings a fashion designer's approach to hand-knits and new life to the Irish love of pattern and texture. The real surprise is that her fresh, exciting designs are easy to knit - as much fun to make as they are to wear. Simple stitches create lines and blocks of texture. Combined with traditional yarns (Irish tweeds and linens), a handful of innovative techniques, and touches of exotic fiber (ribbon, strips of denim, even fur) the variety is endless. With over 40 exciting designs, you'll come for the knitting, but you'll stay for the coastal views, the historic ruins, and the Irish wit.

Weaving To order call 360-295-3856

A Joy Forever: Latvian Weaving, Jane A. Evans
$28.95 3 in stock
This book presents historic Latvian household textiles along with contemporary projects that adapt traditional weave structures to create linens, coverlets, and rugs.

Beading On A Loom, Don Pierce
$21.95 2 in stock
Here you will find all the how-tos of beading on a loom, plus loom work history and a gallery of contemporary creations.

Best Of Weaver’s Magazine: FABRICS THAT GO BUMP, Madelyn van der Hoogt
$28.95 1 in stock
The third in a series, this volume explores handwoven fabrics with marvelous and unusual textures: waffle weave, honeycomb, pleated fabrics, rib and cord weaves, seersucker and more. Includes comprehensive drafting and design theory; details on fiber and finishing; techniques of controlling differential shrinkage for collapse fabrics; and 35 unique projects with complete, easy-to-follow directions.

Best Of Weaver’s Magazine: THICK' N THIN, Madelyn van der Hoogt
$28.95 2 in stock
More than 30 projects by Weaver's talented designers give complete and easy-to-follow instructions for weaving drapable fabrics, for a multitude of uses: clothing, rugs, blankets, kitchen towels, table linens, scarves and more.

Book of Looms: A History of the Handloom from Ancient Times to the Present. Eric Broudy
$19.95 1 in stock
Back in print! A comprehensive history of handlooms and gives clear descriptions of how they work.

Card Weaving, Candace Crockett
$24.95 1 in stock
With nothing more than colored yarn and simple cardboard squares, you can produce exquisitely patterned woven bands. Patterns for sturdy belts and camera straps, delicate silk trims and ties, creative wall art, even hefty rugs and mats are included. ( No Cards )

Handwoven Scarves, Interweave Press
$24.95 3 in stock
Selected by the craft editors at Interweave Press, each scarf is portrayed in full-page, full-color photography and is accompanied by design notes and a brief biography of the weaver. Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned artisan, you’ll find a volume of inspiration in Handwoven Scarves.

The "Handwoven" Index 1979-2000, Interweave Press, $9.95 1 in stock
21-Year Index & Resource Directory

The Herb Tea Book, Susan Clotfelter, $12.95 3 in stock
Sun tea, iced tea, hot and spicy holiday tea, healthful green tea and rich, evocative Indian chai - This book tells you how to get herbs, spices and tea into hot water together. Try sunny "Six Lemon Summer Triumph Tea", tasty "I Believe I'll have Another Cookie Tea", or soothing "Upset Tummey Tea". With 50 recipes from expert herbalists and formulators, perfect for gift giving, entertaining, or sipping with friends.

Lace & Lacey Weaves, Mary E. Snyder
$11.95 1 in stock
A compilation of 86 lace and lacey weave projects with complete worksheets.

Mastering Weave Structures: Transforming Ideas into Great Cloth, Sharon Alderman
$39.95 1 in stock
One of the finest weavers in America has written a book that teaches the finer points of weave structure in the same personal way a friend would encourage and inspire you. Beyond selecting or modifying a draft, Sharon helps you make decisions about choosing the fibers and yarns you need to produce endlessly inventive fabrics. Comprehensive and detailed, the chapters cover plain weave, twills, satin, waffle weave, distortions of the grid, three-element weaves, loom-controlled double-weave, Bedford cords and piques, loom-controlled pile weaves, and crepe weaves.

Rag Weaving Gimmicks and Tricks, Johanna Erickson
$24.95 1 in stock
Gimmicks are things you use. Tricks are things you do. These gimmicks and tricks have been picked up all over the United States as Johanna traveled to teach rag weaving and in her own rag weaving business.

Theme and Variation: More Weaving That Sings, Nadine Sanders & Joyce Harter
$39.95 2 in stock
Since the original version "Weaving That Sings: Variations on the Theo Moorman Technique" was published in 1994, both Nadine and Joyce have continued to experiment with this structure. This version keeps the best of the original book ... weaving exercises, succinct direction, clear drawings, and technical tips ... but adds greater emphasis on designing for the weave structure. Includes CD-ROM with expanded photo gallery, the sounds of lush woven harmonies, video clips of techniques, printable drafts and design exercise pages.

Weaves: A Design Handbook, Eleanor Best
$19.95 1 in stock
Advanced weavers, with 8, 12 or 16-harness looms, will find a lot of useful information here

Weaver’s Companion, The, Presented by Handwoven magazine
$19.95 1 in stock
Save your brain for being creative. Let this small, sturdy, spiral-bound volume keep track of the details. It’s all here: Sett and sleying charts, warp and weft calculation formulas, fiber identification tests, basic weave drafts, finishing techniques, fiber factoids, a must-have gray scale, design shortcuts, and much, much more.

Weaving- A Handbook of the Fiber Arts, Shirley E. Held
$65.00 1 in stock
It is an introduction to the fiber arts for those with little or no experience in working with fiber who wish to explore the many facets of the medium.

Design Collections To order call 360-295-3856

In each of these booklets, more than a dozen well-designed & fun-to-weave projects are presented in full color with complete weaving instructions. Many designs are winning entries from "HANDWOVEN" magazine contests.

#4 Outerwear $4.00 1 in stock
For work, play, or an elegant night on the town. Sixteen original designs for coats, jackets, sweaters, and scarves for every season.

Shuttle Craft Monographs . . .Softcover booklets

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Weaver's Book of Scottish Tartans, Monograph 5, Harriet Tidball
$9.95 1 in stock
You don't have to be Scottish to weave a Tartan, but if you are, you will probably find your Tartan here. After beginning with a history, the book is devoted to the weaving of Tartans, Tartan terms, Tartan setts, and the profiles of a large number of clan Tartans and their colors.

Summer & Winter Weave and Other Two-Tie Unit Weaves, Monograph 19, Harriet Tidball
$9.95 1 in stock
Almost limitless patterns, textures and designs may be composed with Summer & Winter threading. The multiple-harness weaver will have a field day with this book, while the four-harness weaver will have good hunting to make it interesting.

Handwoven Rugs, Monograph 29 , Mary M. Atwater
$9.95 3 in stock
In this monograph Mary Atwater giver her considered but biased opinion to get you started in a variety of techniques. There are plain weave rugs, rag rugs, twice woven "Matta", picked up tufting, knotted, Soumak and tapestry type, overshot, Indian saddle blankets, Crackle, Summer & Winter, and two warp weaves on 4 and 8 harnesses.

Handloom Weaves: Enlarged Edition, Monograph 33, Harriet Tidball
$9.95 1 in stock
Mrs. Tidball classifies and illustrates in draft and photographs the weaves of most interest to handweavers. She covers draft conventions; warp and weft; threading systems; plain weave; twill; double weave; and the Bateman weaves.

Handweaver's Instruction Manual, Monograph 34, Harriet Tidball
$9.95 1 in stock
This classic instruction manual is an historic document of a phase in the evolution of weaving. Understanding drafts (arrangements of warp) and weaving (arrangements of weft) are essential. In all, 56 drafts are included in this manual as well as a good list of books published before 1949.

Kumihimo & Braiding To order call 360-295-3856

Beads & Braids, Jacqui Carey
$39.95 1 in stock
Forty different methods of combining beads with braids are explored; each method illustrated with three different samples. The samples can be reproduced following the detailed instructions and diagrams.

Creative Kumihimo, Jacqui Carey
$29.95 2 in stock
Clear presentation of the basic information for braiding leads the braider to a new "creative" development. This author presents a braid structure not only in movement diagrams, but also a structure diagram that can be used to develop a color arrangement and the color set up.

Techniques of Ply-Split Braiding, Peter Collingwood
$60.00 1 in stock
Ply-split braiding is a thread technique, which is little known in the U.S. The cords lie obliquely in relation to the selvages, where cords cross one splits the other. This book includes detailed practical instructions.

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