Mary Meigs Atwater Weaver's Guild Mary Meigs Atwater Shuttle-Craft Bulletins
For decades, beginning in 1924, Mary Atwater wrote regular Shuttle-Craft Bulletins and sent them to weavers all around the United States. For the great majority of these weavers, the Bulletins were the way they learned to weave and the way they developed their abilities. Each Bulletin contains weaving instructions, patterns, and Mary's advice on many topics related to weaving.
This collection of the Shuttle-Craft Bulletins is useful because:
- There is an index to the weaving subjects taught within the Bulletins (click on "Index" below).
- A more comprehensive index is being developed and will be available soon
- Within each year tab below, there are individual PDFs of the Bulletins from that year.
- Also within each year tab, there are articles about the individual Bulletins that help the modern-day reader understand how to apply the Bulletin's information to today's weaving.
If you would like to receive the complete set of bulletins, bulletin artcles, and index by mail on a USB drive, click on the "Purchase Bulletins" tab.
Mary Meigs Atwater's "Recipe Book: Patterns for Handweavers" is available on USB drive from the Mary Meigs Atwater Weaver's Guild. If you want to order this book bundled with many extras such as WIF files for all of the drafts, go to the Resources page.
| A | ||
| Advertise for selling hand-woven items | Nov 1928 | |
| Advertising and sells | Nov 1925 | |
| Afghan weaving | Nov 1936 | |
| Alphabets | Oct 1925, Jul 1932 | |
| B | ||
| Baby blankets | Mar 1925, May 1949 | |
| Backstrap weaving | Jul 1941 | |
| Bags | Nov 1926, Feb 1927, Jun 1928;Dec 1928, Apr 1935;Sep 1935, Sep 1938, May 1939, Mar 1942 (Peruvian Weave), May, Sep 1942 (Guatemalan design), Sep 1942 (hand carved handles), Oct 1942 (double leno or tabby weave) Mar 1944 | |
| Bag from the Phillipines | Jul 1925, Sep 1936, Jun 1947 | |
| Blankets, lightweight | May 1931, Feb 1936, Oct 1939, Nov 1942 | |
| Baby blankets | Nov 1940 | |
| Basket cloth | May 1942 | |
| Belt weaving | Jul 1935, Apr 1938, Mar 1942 (Peruvian weave), Aug 1942 (2-way rep weave), Oct 1942 (Kaori type decoration, leno weave), Nov 1942 (3-harness Mexican weave) | |
| Blankets | Feb 1942 (shadow weave), Nov 1942 (baby blanket, pattern from Colonial shawl, Mexican three harness weave), | |
| Blouses | May, Jun, Sep 1942 (Guatemalan design) | |
| Books | Sep 1942 (Scandinavian weaving) | |
| Borders | Jun 1933, May 1942 (Guatemalan design) | |
| Borders and corners | Jul 1933 | |
| Braids and braiding | Mar 1934 | |
| Bronson weave | Apr 1925, May 1928, Feb 1932;Apr 1932, Mar 1933, Apr 1942 (curtains), Aug 1942 (rep threading), Jul 1947 | |
| Bunting | Nov 1942 | |
| Business of weaving | Apr 1933 | |
| C | ||
| Canadian braid | Feb 1944 | |
| "Camp" weaving | Jul 1929 | |
| Card weaving | Apr 1938 | |
| Celophane | Oct 1942 | |
| Chair coverings | Feb, Aug, Oct 1942 | |
| Christmas weaving ideas | Oct 1928, Oct 1929, Oct 1930, Oct 1931, Oct 1932, Oct 1933, Oct 1934, Oct 1943;Nov 1943, Oct 1944, Oct 1945, Oct 1947 | |
| Christmas weaving patterns | Oct 1927 | |
| Christmas weaving patterns with metallic | Oct 1946, Oct 1948, Oct 1949 | |
| Clothing | Aug 1927, Mar 1929, Aug 1939 | |
| Clothing, coat fabric | Jun 1926 | |
| Clothing, dress fabric | Mar 1931 | |
| Clothing, lightweight wool fabric | Oct 1930 | |
| Clothing, sweater, jacket | Jan 1926 | |
| Color and weave | Feb 1946 | |
| Color and weave in twill | Feb 1947 | |
| Color suggestions | Mar 1928;Nov 1928 | |
| Colors with MMA options | Jul 1928 | |
| Consignment sells | Nov 1924 | |
| Convert draft from double weaver to SandW | Apr 1927 | |
| Corduroy | Mar 1930 | |
| Coverlet weaving | Jan 1928, Jan 1929, Feb 1930, Jan 1931, Jan 1932, Jan 1933, Jan 1934, Jan 1935, Jan 1936, Jan 1938, Jan 1940, Jan 1941, Jan 1942, Jan 1944, Jan 1945, Jan 1946 | |
| Coverlets, overshot and tufted | Jan 1947, Jan 1948 | |
| Coverlets from Pennsylvania Museum | Jan 1927 | |
| Coverlet in pine bloom | Feb 1927 | |
| Crackle, 3 block twill | Jun 1931 | |
| Crackle, 4 block twill | June 1931 | |
| Crackle, broken twill | Jun 1931 | |
| Crackle, design from John Landes | Jan 1931 | |
| Crackle, the garden wall | Jun 1930 | |
| Crackle, large pattern | Aug 1930 | |
| Crackle, modernistic | Dec 1931 | |
| Crackle, pine tree | Nov 1931 | |
| Crackle, small pattern | Aug 1930 | |
| Crackle, twill order | Apr 1931 | |
| Crackle, mats | Mar 1949 | |
| Crackle weave | Nov 1928, Jun 1930;Oct 1930, Nov 1931, May 1933, Aug 1936, Jul 1938, Aug 1941, Apr 1947, Feb 1949 | |
| Crib coverlet | Jul 1928 | |
| Curtains, sheer and mesh | Mar 1937, Apr 1943, May 1944 | |
| D | ||
| Damask | Apr 1948 | |
| Damask pickup | Nov 1948 | |
| Design | Aug 1946, Sep 1947 | |
| Design with pattern | Nov 1947 | |
| Damask with texture | Mar 1948 | |
| Double weave | Feb 1937 | |
| Double weave, double width | Dec 1924, Jan 1949 | |
| Double weave, pillow top as a tube | Sep 1927 | |
| Double weave, Finnish | Jan 1934 | |
| Double weave, quilted | May 1941 | |
| Doup leno | Apr 1936, Feb 1941 | |
| Dornik twill | Apr 1941 | |
| Drafting profile | Dec 1943 | |
| Drafting from a museum piece | Aug 1932 | |
| Drafting from an African weaving | Feb 1934 | |
| Drafting from a Mexican weaving | May 1934 | |
| Draperies and curtains | Apr 1926, Feb 1929;Aug 1929, Apr 1931, May 1932, Mar 1933, Jul 1934, May 1940;June 1940, Apr 1942, Jul 1944 | |
| Draperies and curtains with inlay | May 1946, Apr 1947 | |
| Dress fabrics | Apr 1937 | |
| Dress fabrics, cotton | Apr 1944 | |
| Dyes | Jan 1925, Mar 1935, Mar 1943 | |
| E | ||
| Equipment | Sep 1924, Dec 1933, Dec 1941 | |
| Expanding weaving awareness | Sep 1926 | |
| F | ||
| Fabric | Feb 1938, Jul 1939 | |
| Fabric for coats | Aug 1927, Sep 1933 | |
| Fabric for dresses | Aug 1925, Feb 1933, Feb 1935, May 1936 | |
| Fabric, lightweight | Jun 1938 | |
| Fabric required for articles | Sep 1925 | |
| Finger weaving | Aug 1938 | |
| Finger weaving Spanish Lace | Mar 1940, Mar 1944 | |
| Finnweave | Oct 1938, May 1939 | |
| Fringes | Aug 1926, Jan 1929, Jul 1937, May 1945 | |
| G | ||
| Gauze weaves from Peru | Dec 1935 | |
| Goose-eye variations for bedspread | Jan 1928 | |
| Guatemala weaving | May 1942;Jun 1942, Jul 1945 | |
| H | ||
| Handbags | Jul 1931;Dec 1931 | |
| Health benefits of weaving | May 1925 | |
| Household weaving | Dec 1925 | |
| I | ||
| Inlay | Dec 1940 | |
| Index | Dec 1942 | |
| Inkle weaving | Dec 1937 | |
| Introduction to Bulletin | Sep 1934 | |
| Italian weave | Oct 1926 | |
| Household weave, warp face | Mar 1927 | |
| J | ||
| K | ||
| Knots for tie-ups | Aug 1930 | |
| Kroksbrod | Nov 1930, Nov 1937 | |
| L | ||
| Lace weaver for blankets and shawls | May 1927 | |
| Lace weaves | Feb 1932;June 1932 | |
| Leno | Oct 1937, Oct 1938 | |
| Leno, 2 and 3 thread | Jun 1948 | |
| Linen weaves | Feb 1926;May 1926 | |
| Linen weaving | Dec 1930, Mar 1932;Apr 1932, Apr 1934, Jun 1935, Apr 1936, May 1938, Aug 1944, Apr 1946 | |
| Linen weaves, Russian | Oct 1940 | |
| Long eyes heddle | Apr 1946 | |
| Loom setup | Dec 1932 | |
| Loom and adjusting sett | Dec 1934, Dec 1939 | |
| M | ||
| M's and O's | Jan 1925 | |
| Maori twined weaving | Jun 1941, Nov 1945 | |
| Modern art applied to weaving | Jull 1929 | |
| Member ideas | Dec 1931 | |
| Metallic wefts | Sep 1948 | |
| N | ||
| Navajo belt | Oct 1939 | |
| Navajo rugs | Sep 1937 | |
| Necktie instructions | Jun 1927 | |
| Nylon and new yarn | Jul 1946 | |
| O | ||
| Overshot: An old coverlet pattern | Jan 1931 | |
| Overshot: Chariot wheel | Mar 1927 | |
| Overshot: Chariot wheels and brickwork | Jul 1928 | |
| Overshot: Double bow knot | Jun 1927 | |
| Overshot: Double chariot wheels | Nov 1927 | |
| Overshot: Double orange peel | Jan 1931 | |
| Overshot: Drifting shadows | Jul 1929 | |
| Overshot: Indian war | Jan 1939 | |
| Overshot: Last word, variation Atwater #108 | Feb 1931 | |
| Overshot: Little star | Jan 1931 | |
| Overshot: Jitterbug | Sep 1941 | |
| Overshot: Mary Simmons | Sep 1927 | |
| Overshot: Minitaure patterns | Aug 1937 | |
| Overshot: Modernistic pattern | Spr 1928 | |
| Overshot: Pattern from 1820 | Nov 1924 | |
| Overshot: Pattern from spec book | Sep 1931 | |
| Overshot: Rose diamond | Mar 1928 | |
| Overshot: Unusual rose patterns | May 1929 | |
| Overshot: Wheel patterns | Dec 1927 | |
| Overshot: Wheel of fortune | Jul 1927 | |
| Overshot: Whig rose | Jul 1927 | |
| Overshot: Young ladies delight | Aug 1928 | |
| P | ||
| Pattern development from Speck book | Sep 1931 | |
| Patterns for towels | Dec 1928 | |
| Patterns: 8 shaft linen patterns | Jan 1931 | |
| Patterns: Bird's eye twill | May 1931 | |
| Patterns: Bronson for blankets | May 1931 | |
| Patterns: Bronson weave dots | Mar 1931 | |
| Patterns: Corkscrew twill | Mar 1931 | |
| Patterns: Dornik twill | Mar 1931 | |
| Patterns: Double faced twill | Mar 1931 | |
| Patterns: Ms and Os | Apr 1931 | |
| Patterns: Monks belt | Sep 1929, Sep 1930 | |
| Patterns: Openwork | Mar 1931 | |
| Patterns: Openwork in squares | Mar 1931 | |
| Patterns: Simple texture pattern | Apr 1931 | |
| Patterns: Sugar loaf | Sep 1930 | |
| Peru weaving | Aug 1935, Aug 1943;Sep 1943 | |
| Peru weaving: Tapestry | Sep 1941 | |
| Philadelphia sesqui-centennial | Nov 1926 | |
| Pick-up | Sep 1930, Nov 1938, Mar 1942 | |
| Pick-up: Mexican | Sep 1942, Sep 1949 | |
| Pick-up: Peruvian | Apr 1949 | |
| Pile weaving | Mar 1930, Nov 1934, Jun 1945 | |
| Pillows | Sep 1932 | |
| Pin cushions | Oct 1925 | |
| Placemats | Sep 1946 | |
| Plaiting | Aug 1938;Dec 1938, Jul 1939;Sep 1939, Feb 1943 | |
| Plans for long warps | Oct 1931 | |
| Portable weaving | Jun 1936 | |
| Profile drafts: Coverlets | Apr 1927 | |
| Profile drafts: Lisbon Star | Feb 1928 | |
| Proportion in bags and towels | Nov 1929 | |
| Q | ||
| R | ||
| Rag weaving | Jul 1942 | |
| Rep weaving | Aug 1942, Mar 1947 | |
| Review of article in Ladies Home Journal | Jul 1927 | |
| Ribbons and braid | Aug 1926 | |
| Rug weaving | Dec 1929, Jan 1930, Aug 1934, May 1935 | |
| Rug designs | Oct 1928 | |
| Rug woven with wool chenille | Dec 1927 | |
| Rugs, weft-faced and warp-faced | Mar 1926, Aug 1931, Nov 1932, Nov 1939 | |
| S | ||
| Samples | May 1926 | |
| Scarf from V and A Museum | Nov 1927 | |
| Scandinavian weaving | Sep 1929 | |
| Scarves | Sep 1926, Nov 1941 | |
| Sells; Number 1 | May 1929 | |
| Setts for common yarns | Dec 1932 | |
| Shadow weave | Feb 1942, May 1943;Jun 1943 | |
| Shawl, Mexican | Nov 1946 | |
| Small patterns | Dec 1925, Nov 1933 | |
| Smoke wreath pattern | Oct 1928 | |
| South American and Spanish weaving | Aug 1933, Mar 1945 | |
| Speck design | Jan 1933 | |
| Stuffer warp rugs | Mar 1941 | |
| Stuffer warp rugs and double beams | Jun 1946 | |
| Summer and Winter, 3 block pattern from Speck book | Sep 1931 | |
| Summer and Winter, 6 block pattern from Speck book | Sep 1931 | |
| Summer and Winter, 6 shaft from John Landes Coverlet pattern | Jan 1934 | |
| Summer and Winter, Drifting shadows | Jul 1929 | |
| Summer and Winter, Modernistic pattern | Apr 1928 | |
| Summer and Winter, Pine tree in 6 blocks | Apr 1931 | |
| Summer and Winter, Simple block | May 1931 | |
| Summer and Winter, Shuttlecock | May 1928 | |
| Summer and Winter, Palm | Sep 1928 | |
| Summer and Winter, Polychrome | Sep 1945 | |
| Summer and Winter, Unusual rose patetrns | May 1929 | |
| Summer and Winter, profile drafts | Jul 1937 | |
| Summer and Winter, On opposites | Mar 1926 | |
| Summer and Winter weave | Feb 1928, Oct 1936 | |
| Summer and Winter, Pick-up | Dec 1947, Oct 1949 | |
| T | ||
| Table linens | Sep 1927, Apr 1945 | |
| Tartan setts | Oct 1924, Mar 1946 | |
| Tartan weaving | Oct 1935, Oct 1940, Feb 1948 | |
| Towels in linen | Dec 1930 | |
| Towel borders | Mar 1932 | |
| Towels in overshot | Feb 1940 | |
| Tufted rugs | May 1928, Apr 1930 | |
| Twice-woven rugs | Mar 1938 | |
| Twill | Jun 1925, Apr 1929, Oct 1936, Feb 1938, Nov 1944, Feb 1945, Aug 1945 | |
| Two shaft weaves | Aug 1947 | |
| Two shaft weaves, openwork | May 1948 | |
| U | ||
| Upholstery material | Sep 1927 | |
| Upholstery material, Westway weave | Apr 1944 | |
| Upholstery weaving | Mar 1928, Sep 1934, May 1937, Mar 1939, Apr 1939, Jul 1940, Mar 1947 | |
| V | ||
| Velvet | Mar 1930, Apr 1930 | |
| W | ||
| Warp setts | Dec 1948 | |
| Warp-face weaving | Oct 1937, Oct 1941 | |
| Warp faced weaving, Pick-up | Apr 1940 | |
| Warping | Sep 1925, Dec 1936, Dec 1944 | |
| Weave a coverlet | Sep 1927 | |
| Weaving for Christmas | Oct 1928, Oct 1930 | |
| Weaving for pleasure | Nov 1929 | |
| Weaving hints | Sep 1944, Aug 1948 | |
| Weaving ideas | Oct 1925, Nov 1925 | |
| Weaving in Canada | Dec 1946 | |
| Weaving for profit | Jan 1930 | |
| Weaving with military surplus | May 1947 | |
| X | ||
| Y | ||
| Yardage requirements | Dec 1945 | |
Bulletins on USB Drive
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