Weaving and Colcha from the Hispanic Southwest: Authentic Designs - William Wroth - Paperback - 1st ed

Over 75 detailed drawings (many by Carmen G. Espinosa) of traditional colcha embroidery motifs; weaving patterns; a loom and wool winder to scale. Drawings retraced from bulletins distributed to vocational schools in northern N.M., explanatory texts from "New Mexico Colonial Embroidery" (1943), "Weaving Bulletin" (1937), and "Vegetable Dyes Bulletin" (1935). Wroth (author Christian Images in Hispanic N.M.; ed. Hispanic Crafts of the Southwest) traces the State Dept. of Vocational Education crafts programs, surveys "Hispanic New Mexican Weaving and Colcha Embroidery"."Weavers, embroiderers, and other artists will especially treasure them: " -- New Mexico Magazine"Wroth..., with the cooperation of Ancient City Press, can only enhance the continuation of these art forms". -- Albuquerque Journal NorthWroth, William is the author of 'Weaving and Colcha from the Hispanic Southwest: Authentic Designs - William Wroth - Paperback - 1st ed' with ISBN 9780941270274 and ISBN 0941270270.