A Handweaving Revival: Weaving with Marguerite Porter Davison combines hundreds of drafts from Davison’s classic A Handweaver’s Pattern Book with friendly, accessible chapter introductions and extensive guidance on using the drafts to create your own beautiful woven projects.
The book features:
- 600+ Davison drafts and 100+ new designs inspired by Davison
- Colourful samples that bring the drafts to life
- Updated draft notation: written for rising shed and re-ordered to begin on 1&2 for twill
- Explanations of each family of weave structures
- Historical insight into how Davison’s drafts expand our weaving knowledge
- Tech support sections covering project math, balancing designs, managing selvedges, and more!
Davison created an encyclopedic collection of weave structures over her lifetime. Covering twills, overshot, woven lace, summer & winter, and crackle, her drafts open up a world of possibilities. A Handweaving Revival puts a modern, welcoming spin on Davison’s foundational work. Each chapter uses a fresh colour scheme, making the book easy to navigate and providing inspiration for your own cloth. With useful tips throughout and dedicated support sections covering common weaver worries, this will be a book of drafts you actually weave from! Over 40 weavers contributed samples to this project, making it a celebration of the weaving community as well as of Davison’s legacy. We hope A Handweaving Revival will inspire you to keep the spark Davison lit alive, creating your own handwoven samples, projects, and even drafts.