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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1960 HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON PAGE SEVEN New Methods By DOROTHY ANDERSON The principle of modern weav ing is the same as it has been since primitive times, but inven tions have made it a highly mech anized industry. Evidence that primitive man . used looms dates this craft back to the dawn of civilization. Perhaps the first DOROTHY inn n i -in rii-f "jr"-;' m Local Firms, Individuals Donated Generously To Make Art Center Possible Generosity of local business firms and individuals and the co operation of Mayor Lawrence Sla ter, members of the city council, City Manager G. S. Vergeer, the city Park and Recreation Board, and the Klamath County Chamber of Commerce, has made possible completion of the new Klamath Art Gallery. The Art Center and Gallery are sponsored by the Klamath Art Association, The financial coordination com mittee includes B. B. Blomquist and Rita Glesin. Nina Pence, Klamath Falls architect, member of the association, designed the gallery. Guy Malotte, this city, was the builder. Donors follow: Basin Builders, Mrs. Don Rice, Lucas Furniture, Phyllis Collier Kerns, Stanley Johnson, Alice Lamm, Steve Stone, Edna Howell The Gunstore, Mr. and Mrs. L. H Stone, Audrey McPherson, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Warrick, Fremont School Personnel, Fairview School Personnel, Riverside School Per sonnel, Ponderosa School Person nel.- Mills School Personnel, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Cleghorn, Gertrude Johnson, Frances Woodruff, Ger ald Clemens, Florence Howe, Mar garet Knoll, Bertha Hultman, J. C. Penney Company, Josephine Regin- ato, Shaw Stationery, Marlu Costel, Betty Costel, Chet Hamaker, Bur Ion Grey, Dr. O. A. Roenicke, Ore gon Food Stores, Juckeland Mo tors. Alice Vitus, Mr. and Mrs. Ken neth Lambie, Eugenia McCoy. Dick Reeder, A. M. Collier, Bill and Rita's Flowers, Emily Halde- man, Ora Reading, Morrison and Howard, Zim's Bakery, Sister M. Rosula, Irene Hartley, Specialized Service Company, Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Shaw, Herman's Mens Store. Doris Johnson, Bussman Seed Store. Of Weaving thread spun was for a fishline, and the first warp was stretched root fibers twisted from tree to tree. Weaving is the same over the entire world. There is nothing new in principle only in types of looms and the fabric developed in the various countries. Silks were developed in China to amazing ANDERSON Emily Yuen, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kahl, Waggoner Drug Com pany, Klamath Billiards and Chuck Wagon, Bob 'Harry) Wag goner, Mrs. L. F. Lund, Dr. and Mrs. Fletcher Conn, Dugan and Mest, Payless Drug Store Park Cabinet Shop, Oregon Wool en. Sears, Roebuck and Company, Balsiger Motor Company, Spen cer's, Hal's Sport Shop, East Side Electric, K. C. Paint, Metier Broth ers, Acme Concrete. Bell Hardware and Garcelon's Jim Barnes Farmers' Sand and Gravel, Johns-Manville, Henris Roofing, Fremont Glass and Mill- work, The Glass House, Kimball's Glass, Van Fleet Electric, Burt McMahon, Owens Electric, Stein seifer Electric, Copeland Lumber Yards, Klamath Valley Lumber Company, Klamath Millwork and Supply, Sessler Inc., Bend Port' laud Trucking, California-Pacific Utilities. Klamath Gas Company, Klam ath Hardwoods, Oregon Water Cor poration, Russell Pengelly, Heaton Steel, Weyerhaeuser-Briggs, Mrs Howard Burkhard, Walt Badorek Sixth Street Steel, Loveness Lum ber Company, Modoc Lumber Company, Ellingson Lumber Com pany, Klamath Lumber and Box A. H. Patterson, Builder, Glass Mountain Block Company, Klam ath Brick and Tile, Swan Lake Moulding Company, Ring Sheet Metal. Holland Sheet Metal, Farr and Thomas Sheet Metal, Klamath Ma chine and Locomotive, K i m e s Plumbing, W. D. Miller Company, Lieb Plumbing, Miller's, Herald and News, KOTI-TV, KFJI, KLAD, I.'aGO, KFLW, Jim Scott, Floyd McLin, James Adams, Ralph F reed, Frank Hodges, Bill Burke, Paul Guest, James Young. Beth Robertson, Mill Mattmiller, John Zigler, Lon Kellslrom. U.S. National Bonk, First National Vary Little From Crafts Of technical perfection and astound ing beauty centuries ago. Linen fabrics of ancient Egypt were finer than any produced today; woven on primitive frame looms, they often were 540 threads to an inch. Carpets and rugs developed in Persia, and to this day are un equaled anywhere. Figured tex tiles of linen were developed to an unusual degree of skill and beauty in ancient Peru. Wool has long been a speciality of England. Cot ton fabrics developed in India. Broadcloth (literally meaning cloth woven on a wide loom) was developed in France in the 1300s. Massachusetts had the first fac tory in the New World; 20 families were imported from England and their children also worked. Wil liam Penn in Philadelphia start ed the second textile factory. The colonies had difficulty in getting yarns as England did not want competition in textile manufactur ing; they grew the linen and pro duced the wool themselves. In ad dition, each home produced cloth for all the family's needs. The American Revolution marks the end of an era in American handweaving. By 1787 an automatic loom was produced, and machine- made fabrics could be made so much faster and cheaper than hand loom methods that eventu ally handweaving became almost extinct. In Europe it exists as a native popular art much more than in the U. S. where machin ery has taken over so completely. Today interest in weaving has been revived to the extent that it has become popular not only as a hobby pastime, but as a cre ative artistic expression and as Weove Workshop (Continued from Page 4) ter in the weaving room which will be established there. A class in weaving for beginners will be organized at the center in the near future. Weavers in the Klamath area have produced a variety of use ful and artistic textiles in a wide range of materials serving a wide range of purposes, from handsome saddle blankets to gossamer-soft woolen stoles, from small hand bags with drawstrings and wooden bottoms to glamorous evening purses with the gleam of metallic yarns. The products include custom de signed table linens and towels, party aprons (and practical-duty ones; for hand woven materials are sturdy enough to be machine washable), neckties for the men skirts, and upholstery fabrics. One weaver uses an antique loom built for a member of her family who pioneered in early Ore gon near what is now Oregon City. Most use four harness floor looms though there are two-and four- harness table looms, and an Inkle loom which weaves narrow bands for belts and webbing. Every weaver makes samples and collects swatches of weaving with various materials made by other weavers, to provide informa tion and ideas concerning texture, color, durability, and suitability for longer projects. For these an extra small loom is indispensable, and many weavers as they in crease their skill and widen their interests still find much to do on a small two harness table loom of the type used by beginning weavers. Bank, Davis Floor Covering, J. W. Kerns, Al Fitzgerald, Smith-Bates Printing, Cliff Yaden, Dr. Marion Lutens, M.D., Safeway Store, Eighth and Pine, Calhoun's Floor Covering, Home Appliance, Vern Owens, Cascade Home Furnish ings, Market Basket. an occupation. Our pioneers constructed such a large cumbersome loom that a special shed had to be built to house it. Today's modern loom is more likely to be in the living room as a cherished piece of fur niture taking little more floor space than a piano. 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