The beloved classic weaving book, now available to todays modern weavers.

This 75th anniversary edition enables todays weavers and future generations to enjoy and expand their weaving skills and design creativity. The classic by Marguerite Porter Davison offers weaving guidance, 377 drafts for four-harness loom weaving, and her timeless emphasis on weavers sharing their knowledge as a community.

The new edition replicates her original, hand-typeset 1951 bookwhich todays weavers fondly term the Green Bookkeeping the originals nostalgic charm. Its valuable content is accompanied by updates, clarifications, and corrections, plus 1,249 all-new color photos of some of the many weaving patterns that can be produced from these drafts.

• A new foreword helps weavers understand Davisons far-reaching weaving impact. About the Big Weave explains the nationwide project by American weaving guilds and groups to reweave the 1,249 original patterns, as part of the communitys dedication to this new edition. Throughout, updated instructional notes are added to assist todays weavers. Davisons granddaughter, Caroline Cooley Browne, offers a new biography and family photos of Davison to reveal the person behind the classic.

• New rising-shed format for all 377 patterns tie-up diagrams, making them ready to use seamlessly with todays most commonly used jack looms.

• New color photos of all 1,249 newly woven patternsfeature navy and natural to distinctly show details.

[AuthorName]By Marguerite Porter Davison, Edited by Caroline Cooley Browne, and Compiled by Bainbridge Artisan Resource Network[/AuthorName][AuthorBio]Marguerite Porter Davison (18871953) was foundational to the American handweaving revival of the twentieth century through her weaving, teaching, research, and scholarship. She self-published A Handweavers Pattern Book in 1944.
Caroline Cooley Browne is Marguerite Porter Davisons granddaughter. Caroline was a founding board member of Bainbridge Artisan Resource Network (BARN) and a founder of its fiber arts studio. The team at BARN collaborated with weavers and weaving guilds across the US to create this revised edition, preserving Davisons style and voice.
Bainbridge Artisan Resource Network celebrates and facilitates creativity. BARNs 25,000-square-foot facility in Bainbridge Island, WA, includes eleven studios and offers classes in weaving and fiber arts, as well as many other disciplines.www.bainbridgeBARN.org[/AuthorBio][NumIllustration]1,626 color & b/w photos and diagrams[/NumIllustration][CoAuthor][/CoAuthor][SubTitle]Updated and Expanded Anniversary Edition[/SubTitle][ColorPattern]1,626 color & b/w photos and diagrams[/ColorPattern]