A woven swatch in green and off-white cotton threads, mounted on cardstock, woven by Hilma Berglund. The weaving is 8 x 13.5. The title "Eight-Harness Double Weave" is hand printed by Hilma Berglund.
Hilma Berglund created this trifold card in her 24th year of teaching at the University of Minnesota. It is printed in red ink on off-white paper. The card features a printed image of a horn and a pair of cymbals. A cardboard frame filled with fine linen threads covers the image.
Name-weaving instructions from the Handweaving Workbook by Heather Thorpe. The text of the card describes the process to translate the name "Hilma Berglund" into an overshot weaving draft.
A woven overshot swatch in cotton threads in "Pine Bloom" pattern, with ink drawn draft and notations. These are mounted on cardboard with notation "Pine Bloom page 121 in my notebook H B". The swatch is 11 x 15.5 cm.
A woven swatch in cotton threads, with pencil drawn draft, and notations in ink. Titled "raindrops" it is a 4 shaft lace weave. The 3 items are mounted on card stock. The woven swatch is 6 x 21cm.
This card has been glued to its handmade envelope. Hilma Berglund printed this card with red ink on tan paper. The card is accordian folded with progressively wider folds, which when opened reveal stanzas of a poem. An image of waves trims the bottom edge.
Three swatches mounted on cardboard were woven by Hilma Berglund. A hand printed label at the bottom reads "Experiments with textures/look under each one/all are cotton. The upper swatch is labeled "50-50 weave H. B. 24 to inch. The center swatch has two different setts. Below the swatch is printed six-harness twill H.B. The lower swatch has 3 different setts. Under the swatch reads 30 to inch/24 to inch/30 to inch/2 different reeds 4-harness H.B.
Two swatches were woven by Hilma Berglund, on cotton warps with linen wefts. The first swatch (17cm x27.5cm) shows four variations of overshot: ordinary overshot, overshot in summer and winter/ spacing, Italian treadling and sunlight and shadow. Handwritten paper labels are sewn to the back of the swatch. The second (4cm x 38cm) is Bronson Lace. A handwritten draft is sewn to the back of the swatch. A draft, handwritten on graph paper, shows the overshot threading and treadling variations, and Bronson lace threading and treadling.spacing, Italian treadling, sunlight and shadow
Two swatches woven in cotton threads and draft mounted on heavy paper. The swatches show several treadling variations. The swatches illustrate warp patterning with thick and thin threads. The swatches are 16 x 8 cm and 19.5 x 7.7 cm.
Minutes for the monthly meetings of the Twin Cities Weaver's Guild, October 1951-June 1952, held at various locations in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, Minnesota. Includes treasurer's report and executive board minutes.
Minutes for the monthly meetings of the Twin Cities Weaver's Guild, October 1954-July 1955, held at various locations in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, Minnesota. Includes executive board minutes.
Minutes for the monthly meetings of the Twin Cities Weaver's Guild, September 1953-June 1954, held at various locations in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, Minnesota. Includes executive board minutes.
A woven swatch of uphostery material woven by Hilma Berglund with thread samples and threading and treadling information. The index card reads "Warp: Gray carpet warp, set 15 to inch; Weft: Chartreuse cotton , Blue boucle rayon and cotton, Rose nubby rayon and cotton, red linen for binder; Threading: 4/3/4/1/2/1. C B R red Treadling: 3-4,1-2,3-4,1-3,1-2,3-4,1-2,2-4 Hilma Berglund" C B R red refers to the rotation fo the weft colors throughout the treadling sequence, i.e. Chartreuse, Blue, Rose, Red are repeated.
Five typewritten pages show 100 treadling variations that can be used for four shaft plain or twill threadings. This was part of a group project of the Twin City Weavers' Guild. The 5 accompanying swatches (17cm wide) woven by Hilma Berglund, use cotton carpet warp for both warp and weft demonstrate most of these possibilities. New labels are attached to replace original cellophane tape labels. Note to the text explains her numbering system. The information about the fifth sample is handwritten on cardboard. Scans of the first 4 swatches have the long side folded to show the reverse side of the weaving.