Scarfe Olive (1 results)
Published by Cathedral Weaving Centre, Canterbury, Kent 1956
- Softcover
Seller: Quair Books PBFA, Leeds, United KingdomQuair Books PBFA
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Add to basketPaper wrappers. Condition: Good+. 37 non-consecutive slight side-stapled pamphlets (two formats: 20.5 x 16.5cm; 26 x 21cm): volume one, nos. 1, 8-12 (6 issues); volume two, nos. 2-4, 6 (4 issues); volume three, nos. 5-12 (8 issues); volume four, nos. 1, 3-6, 8-12 (10 issues) & volume five, nos. 1, 4-11 (9 issues). Paper wrappers… in various colours, lettered and illustrated in black, with various cover designs. Incl. pattern illustrations in b/w and textile samples attached by tape or pin (some missing). Toned and foxed, creased and dusty, a number of order forms and price lists laid in. Rare both in the trade and research libraries: JiscLHD locates one holding only (BL), OCLC adds another (UoArizona). Good+ With: an anonymous five page hand-written lecture on 'the subject of Dressing a Loom' and a four page folding pamphlet, 'Canterbury Loom: Instruction Leaflet No. 1': losses to spine. A good collection of this scarce mid-century grassroots textile magazine "by, for and about weavers" issued quarterly by Margaret A. Norris at the Cathedral Weaving Centre in Canterbury and, from Spring 1968, by Olive M. Scarfe at St. Peter Port in Guernsey. Little is known about either of the editors or, indeed, the magazine, which ran for almost 15 years (at least). Margaret A Norris may have emigrated to New Zealand after handing over the editorship of Loom Craft: the Dunedin Public Art Gallery holds a piece of 'Traditional Loom Weaving' by a "Margaret Norris (New Zealand, active 1970s)" in its collection.
