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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 8, Issue 3 (July 1, 1933)

Hand Weaving

Hand Weaving.

Weaving is one of the oldest crafts, and has been practised since the very earliest times. The power loom soon drove the weavers first to despair and then into the factories, and hand-weaving became practically a lost art in industrial countries. Now, strange to say, the old art has been revived in the most modern cities as a useful pastime in the home. It has, quite page 56 naturally, come to keep pace with the knitting craze. Some of our girl technical students have been able to set up their own looms—proving, possibly, how easy it is to make a machine of this type suitable for the more simple forms of weaving. Among the fabrics which can be made from wool, silk, or cotton, are dress and coat materials, scarves, cushion-covers, table-covers—in many colours and greatly-varied patterns. Soon the question “did you make your own dress” may mean “did you weave it, as well?” Certainly the revival of this interesting handicraft will help to produce new ideas in patterns, besides proving economical to those who develop the hobby.

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