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TABLE OF CONTENTS

• FEATURES
  • Handknitting Gloves
    by Deborah Newton
  • Myth, Music, and Magic: Pilar Coover
    by Margot Blum Schevill
  • Stars, Diamonds, Tables, and Sunrise:
    Motifs, structures of woven coverlets
    by Lou Cabeen
  • A Passion for Elegance: Marian Clayden
    by Betsy Levine
  • Tailor's Logic:
    Custom-made suit tour
    by Stanley Hostek
  • Molas: Cuna Indian Fiber Art
    by Sharon La Pierre
  • Aran Knitting:
    Cable Patterns
    by Alice Starmore
  • Diagonal Cables(machine knit)
    by Susan Guagliumi
  • Medallion Quilting
    by Kristin Miller
  • Playing with Darts
    by Deborah Abbott
  • Hooked on Texture:
    Unconventional punch-needle rugs
    by Gloria E. Crouse
  • Back Cover:
    Persian Legend in Silk
    16th-century Safavid Iran
• DEPARTMENTS
  • Letters
  • TIPS:
    Washing greasy wool
    by Cyril Lieschke
    Preshrinking wool yardage
    by Elaine MacKay
    One-row stripes in flat knitting
    by Joy Beeson
    Easier button shanks
    by Julie Brady
    Invisible buttonholes
    by Alice Smock
    Knit buttonholes you won't mind seeing
    by Elizabeth Custer
    Wrestling foot petals to the mat
    by Thea Renaud
    Handy third hand
    by Marianne Kantor
    Marking quilt pieces
    by Barbara Gaugel
    Weaving with magnets
    by Mrs. Frank Chevalier
    Preventing shoulder-pad show-through
    by Elisheva Bush
    Quick spaghetti straps
    by Jean Good
  • QUESTIONS:
    Q: Restoring crocheted tablecloth
    A: Terry McCormick
    Q: Unraveling serged seams
    A: Gail Brown
    Q: Ultimate sweater pattern
    A: David Page Coffin
    Q: Reversible knitting
    A: Bee Borssuck
  • NOTES:
    Determination and innovation: a successful weaving mill
    by D'Ann Calhoun Fago
    Fashion and Surrealism
    by The Fashion Institute of Technology
    The Roots of Wearables
    by Clara Creager
    Tours of Thailand
    by Don Willcox
    Show your work in Denmark
    by Anne Vilsboll
    Workshop with needle artist Constance Howard
    by Kate Hearst
    Innerskins/Outerskins
    by San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum
    Lacemaking competition
    by The English Lace School
    The latest stuff in sewing
    by Independent Sewing Machine Dealers Assoc.
    The truth about American hooking
    by Jeanne H. Fallier
  • Calendar
  • Books
  • COMMENT:
    Christmas embroidery in Pakistan
    by Mary Garland
  • Supplies