Search Results: TEXTILES from Champ & Mabel Collectibles

Fairlight, East Sussex, United Kingdom: Corkwood, 2005. Softcover. Very good. 14p. A brief look at the peg loom, with chapters on tools you need to make your own peg looms; how to make a 92cm dual gauge loom; threader tool; basic peg loom weaving: threading the loom, weaving the loom, and joining blocks of color; tying off and finishing loose ends, a quick to make rag rug; other materials; and useful addresses. Plastic comb binding. Color illustrations and photographs. (11-3/4"x8-1/2")

Coca-Cola Co., 1943. Stapled wraps. Very good. [16p.] Sticker booklet with all 20 pictures tipped in and present, staples oxidized and pages lightly creased. Sticker activity book for juveniles describing cotton production, manufacture and uses of cotton cloth, and new applications for cotton. Distributed by The Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Color illustrations. (10"x7-1/4")

[Paris]: Noble-Gex Editions, [1930?]. Wraps with stapled text block. Good. 63p. Bottom page corners dog-eared, label on front, paper on spine torn. A guide to historic tapestry factory in Paris, France including a history of dyeing and tapestry manufacture dating back to the 17th century. B&w photographs. (6-1/8"x4-3/4")

London; New York: Search Press; Herder and Herder, 1968. Stapled wraps. Very good. [32p.] 3rd printing (1971) Cover corners lightly worn. Instructions for block printing and stenciling on fabric. 1960s styles. Original edition "Bunte Stoffe" by Helena Hornung. Booklet. B&w and color photographs. (6-1/2"x6-1/2")

Milwaukee: Bruce Publishing, 1926. Cloth. Very good/good. [x], 158p. Name on front endpaper, endpapers toned, jacket edges chipped with a large chip at bottom of spine. A standard text amateur weavers, hobbyists, and interested readers. From the introduction:: "The purpose of this book is to present to the amateur weaver, in a simple, homelike way, the various processes necessary to produce a piece of lien cloth by beginning with the seed of the flax plant...In short, it is the beginning of an understanding of fibers which will aid future homemakers and salesmen in selling and buying intelligently." Includes the processing of flax, the various techniques and patterns of weaving, and washing and sizing the cloth. B&w illustrations and photographs. (10"x7")

Lowell, Massachusetts: American Textile History Museum, 1997. 2nd Edition. Softcover. Very good/very good. 108p. Jacket corners creased and edges lightly scraped. Includes bibliography. Introduction to late nineteenth and early twentieth-century mass-produced printed cotton written to accompany an exhibition of the Museum of American Textile History's "collection of prints from factories in New England and Pennsylvania." Included are descriptions of the technology of printing on fabric, marketing of the fabrics, development of industrial arts in education, contemporary use in clothing and fashion, and history of nine print works. B&w and color photographs. (11-1/2"x8-5/8")

Stockholm: Lantbruksförbundets Tidskrifts, 1954. Stapled wraps. Very good. 32p. Wraps and page edges toned, portfolio missing. B&w photographs and 8 leaves of color photographs on recto laid in. (11-1/2"x9")

Stockholm: Lantbruksförbundets Tidskrifts, 1954. Stapled wraps. Good +. 32p. Wraps and page edges toned and foxed with 5-1/2" tear along wraps spine fold, portfolio missing. B&w photographs and 8 leaves of color photographs on recto laid in. (11-1/2"x9")

New York: Raw Silk Bureau, [1939?]. Brochure. Good +. Single sheet, double-sided; four panel brochure. Back panel soiled and corners worn. Brochure explaining the process of pre-World War II silk production in Japan. B&w halftone photographs. (Folded, 9-1/8"x4"; unfolded, 9-1/8"x16")