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This full-color look at the patterns that Dr. William Bateman developed and studied over 50 years ago will help intermediate to advanced-level weavers think more innovatively about their craft. With hundreds of color draft diagrams and photos of Bateman's sample weaves, artists can experiment with his innovations on their own looms. Bateman, a chemistry professor turned weaver, analyzed traditional patterns and extended them in completely new directions. The samples included are Dr. Bateman's originals, and detail the yarns and setts he outlined in his documentation. The drafts are organized into weave groups, ranging from those with their origins in traditional structures like twill or overshot, to the one-of-a-kind new weaves Bateman invented. After she completed her monographs on the Bateman weaves, Virginia Harvey donated his nearly 1,500 samples to the Seattle Weavers' Guild. His original weaves, and the ways he manipulated more traditional weaves, form a fascinating resource for today's weavers. AUTHOR: Robyn Spady, Nancy A. Tracy, and Marjorie Fiddler are hand weavers and members of the Seattle Weavers' Guild, one of the largest guilds in the US. Spady began weaving in 1969. She is a master weaver and travels extensively teaching a wide variety of programs and workshops. Tracy is active in several local guilds, as well as the international Complex Weavers organization. She has over 25 years of experience and her particular interest is in the structures of woven cloth and the looms that create them. She was fortunate to have been a friend of Virginia Harvey, who did the original work on publishing Dr. William Bateman's material. Fiddler is an award-winning weaver and dyer known for her striking use of color and exceptional craftsmanship. 408 colour photos and diagrams No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Dr. Bateman was a chemistry professor and taught in several universities, both in the U.S. and in China. But he also had a lifelong interest in weaving and when he retired, he and his wife moved to Seattle to be near their daughter. It was then that Dr. Bateman started his exploration of weaving structure and design. Originally he thought he would provide a reference to be used for classes in weaving and as a resource for weavers' organizations. However, after producing a large number of samples of twill, overshot, plain weave and more, his own inventiveness surfaced. Soon he was creating his own threadings and treadlings and giving them new names. The Bateman weave collection of woven samples was born.
Bateman kept extensive records about his various warps and all of the samples woven on them. There were 389 warps with six to twelve samples on each one of them. He built collections of samples and prepared them for traveling exhibits in the 1950's and 60's. After his death, Bateman's samples and written work were passed down to Virginia Harvey by the Bateman family. Virginia and Luise Ziegler worked on the collection for ten years. They edited, verified and mounted the samples. Virginia published six monographs about Bateman's work which are now out of print, hard to find and expensive to purchase. In the early 1990's she passed on the materials in her possession to the Seattle Weavers' Guild.
Today, Bateman's sample collections are held by the Seattle Weavers' Guild and the Montana State University. “Weaving Innovations” chronicles selected samples owned by the Seattle Guild with color photos of original samples woven by Bateman and a complete draft for each piece shown. These are just a small number of the total samples in existence. Using this book, you are free to use the drafts and copy the samples using the information included with each. But an even greater journey, is to use Bateman's threading and treadling systems to design your very own interpretations.
Dr. Bateman used an 8 shaft table loom for all of his samples. He designed drafts for four, six, seven and eight shafts. Many drafts are suitable for floor looms, but some samples use so many different shed combinations they need a table or dobby loom to recreate them. “Weaving Innovations” includes a few of the really big drafts and also a few adapted for use with multishaft looms (over 8 shafts). I found that there are still plenty of drafts in this book that can be comfortably woven on a floor loom. ( )