Alice Pastoret Macdonald, a weaver from Iowa, spent the best part of a decade weaving samples from all the draughts in the eighteenth century Thomas Jackson manuscript. In this post I present my photographs of her linen samples alongside the corresponding drafts from the manuscript. Background The weaver Thomas Jackson lived near Kirkleatham in the … Continue reading Linen Samples after Thomas Jackson.
I recently made some linen towels and napkins from a draught written in the 1700’s by Thomas Jackson in North Yorkshire. Why did he think his version of M & O was the “right” one? And why is M and O a kind of huggaback? . I wove the linen for these hand towels in … Continue reading Thomas Jackson’s “Right M and O Huggaback”
The second of two posts presenting photographs of the linen looms at Ballydugan Weaver’s House in the Ulster Folk & Transport Museum, Northern Ireland.This post deals with the ‘damask loom’, the previous post with the ‘plain loom’. . Ballydugan Weaver’s House is a reconstruction of an 1850s weaver’s cottage from Ballydugan, County Down. It currently … Continue reading The Ballydugan Looms, part 2.
The first of two posts presenting photographs of the linen looms at Ballydugan Weaver’s House in the Ulster Folk & Transport Museum, Northern Ireland.This post deals with the ‘plain loom’, the second post with the ‘damask loom’. . Ballydugan Weaver’s House is a reconstruction of an 1850s weaver’s cottage from Ballydugan, County Down. It currently … Continue reading The Ballydugan Looms, part 1.
A post about the two linen looms at Ballydugan Weaver’s House in the Ulster Folk & Transport Museum at Cultra, Northern Ireland. I visited in April 2023 to look at details of loom construction to inform my own loom build later in the year. I am grateful to the weavers Roisin & Joanne for making … Continue reading The Ballydugan Looms
“In a low, dark shed, green with damp and crumbling with age, there still stands the very last of the old Lopham looms…” . . “In a low, dark shed, green with damp and crumbling with age, there still stands the very last of the old Lopham looms, exactly where it was worked for at … Continue reading Lopham Looms: Coleby Cobb’s Loom.