NVWG Swatch Collections
Title | Author | date | text | samples |
Magic in the water: wet finishing handwovens | Fry, Laura | 2001 | ~40 pages | samples from 20 projects, each including draft sheet, color photo, project description, and sample of finished and unfinished fabric; plus two additional samples without photos. |
The swatch collection | Alderman, Sharon | 2005 | 25 fabric swatches and drafts on acid-free card stock | |
Dallas Handweavers and Spinners Guild, Inc. 25th anniversary sample book | 20 samples, each with draft and weaver biography | |||
Surface interest weaves | Weavers’ Guild of Boston workshop | 1983 | ~46 pages of drafts (mimeographed!) | 24 samples on 13 cards |
Exotic fiber swatches | Nashoba Valley Weavers Guild | 2006 | 5 samples in clear page protectors, one empty sample card | |
The Virginia West swatch book | West, Virginia | 1985 | 20 samples and drafts | |
Betsy Wing’s swatch collection | Wing, Betsy | 1983-1988 | 8 samples on 7 draft sheets | |
More with four: unusual 4-shaft weaves | Irwin, Bobbie | 1998 | 8 draft/description sheets w/o samples | 13 samples with drafts, descriptions, weaving instructions |
Looking at twills | Voiers, Leslie | |||
The Tie Up (newsletter of southern California Handweavers’ Guild) | ||||
Swatch book of unknown origin | binder with fabric and yarn samples; drafts from five projects | |||
Nashoba Valley Weavers Guild samples | ||||
scarf in Swarthmore lace | Dorothy Solbrig and Eileen Fitzgerald | October 2007 | ||
a basic color and weave gamp | Sept. 2006 | |||
a log cabin with two colors and two weights of yarn | Sept. 2006 | one enormously long sample |