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TABLE OF CONTENTS

• FEATURES
  • New Twist on Resist
    by Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada, Shelley Karpilow
  • A Textural Approach to Arashi Shibori
    by D'Arcie Beytebiere
  • Perfecting the Pocket
    by David Page Coffin
  • Lamé
    by Ann Boyce
  • Double-Weave Pick-Up:
    Designing with color on a four-harness loom
    by Cynthia H. Neely
  • Drawn Threadwork
    by Marie-Pierre Duroy
  • Fair Isle Knitting:
    pattern chart
    designing a Fair Isle gansey
    by Alice Starmore
  • Cut, Paste, and Copy
    by Colette Wolff
  • The Body as Canvas
    by Harold Koda
  • Thread Weaving:
    textural fabric from the knitting machine
    by Joan Sample
  • Spinning Mohair in Lesotho
    by Mary Ann Snieckus
  • Back Cover:
    Stepping Out
    by Lenore Davis
• DEPARTMENTS
  • Letters
  • ERRATA:
    "Techniques for Better Weaving"
    No. 7, Oct/Nov 1986
  • TIPS:
    Hanging sweaters and yarns
    by Gladys Shue, Sharon Lappin
    Strip-quilted rounds
    by Margaret Horton
    Fair Isle self-labels
    by Gloria Babiarz
    Wrinkle-free patterns
    by Linda Kuras
    Patch pocket without topstitching
    by M.E. Mackay
    Managing balls of yarn
    by Esther Rumaner
  • QUESTIONS:
    Q: Perfect waistbands
    A: Grace Callaway
    Q: Cardigan front bands
    A: Maggie Righetti
    Q: Wool quilt batting
    A: Eleanor stanwood
  • NOTES:
    How I design
    by Mary jane Miller
    Convergence '86
    by Ruth-Claire Marcus
    Lace and cashmere
    by The Textile Museum
    Impressions of an exposition
    by Julie Levy
    Raising Angora goats in Texas
    by Sue Franklin
    Robots can sew too
    by Debrah Lerme Goodman
    Nicaraguan tapestries
    by Judy Branfman
  • Calendar
  • Books
  • HUMOR:
    Tongue in Chic
    by Janet Rosen
  • Supplies