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
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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
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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. Table looms,
small enough to be easily trans
portable, are capable of weaving
anything that is desired up to 1G
inches in width.
Although based on peasant art,
modern handweaving has been
adapted to today's tastes and
needs. A weaver can use individ
ual imagination in an almost un
limited range of creative work
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