Anne Blinks Textile Study Collection

Bibliography for Sprang


RECOMMENDATIONS FOR LEARNING THE TECHNIQUE:

Annemarie Seiler-Baldinger, A Classification of Techniques,  Smithsonian 
  Institute Press, Washington, D.C.,1994,  ISBN 1-56098-509-7

Peter Collingwood, Sprang: A Revival of an Ancient Technique, Handweaver and       
  Craftsman Vol. 15, No. 2, Spring 1964, pp. 6-9.  In Collection Papers.


GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Peter Collingwood, Techniques of Sprang, (Watson-Guptill, New York, 1974).

Mary Frame, Ancient Peruvian Sprang Fabrics, M.A. Thesis, University of
  British Columbia, 1982.

Margarethe Hald, Olddanske Textiler, Copenhagen, 1950.  [English summary.]

Virginia Harvey, "Sprang", Threads in Action, vol. 1:4, June 1970.
  [Introduction and basic instructions.]  In Collection papers.

Audrey S. Henshall, "Note on an Early Stocking in `Sprang' Technique Found 
  Near Micklegate Bar, York", Ann. Report & Trans. Yorkshire Philosophical
  Society, pp. 22-24 (1950).  In Collection papers.

Mary Elizabeth King, "Sprang in the Paracas Period of Peru", In Celebration
  of the Curious Mind, eds. N. Rogers and M. Stanley (Interweave Press,
  Loveland, CO, 1983) pp. 61-67.

Jeanette Lund, "Sprang - II", Threads in Action, vol 2:1, Fall, 1970.
  [Continuous warp Sprang band from West Pakistan.]  In Collection papers.

Alberta Parkinson, "Notes on the Nazca Braid", [sprang] typescript with
   notes in Anne's handwriting in Collection papers.

Elizabeth S. Van Reesema,  "Egyptisch Vlechtwerk" [Egyptian Lace], V.
   Holkema & Warendorf's, Uitg-My.N.V. Amsterdam, N.D. 48pp.  [Instructions
   included, with photos.  Also photos of currently interlaced pieces from
   classes.  This is what we now call Sprang.] In Collection papers.

------,  "Old Egyptian Lace", Bulletin of the Needle and Bobbin Club, n.d.
   In Collection papers.

------, Contribution to the Early History of Textile Technics,
   Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen te Amsterdam,
   Afdeeling Letterkunde New Series 26:2, Amsterdam (1926), 78pp. [About
   twining (tablet weaving), sprang, etc.]  In Collection papers.



Website:  http://www.regia.org/sprang.htm.  History and construction techniques
  of sprang during Anglo-Saxon/Viking period in Northern Europe.

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