Are you familiar with Handweaving.net? This is a great
resource for weaving drafts and other information.
Just recently they received a rare 1910 Italian book
on weaving pattern compositions titled Manuale de Compositore
di Tissuti by Pietro Pinchetti--this manuscript contains
1230 drafts for shaft looms.
You can find the collection Here. These drafts range from 2 to 54 shafts! Some very interesting 8 and 16 shafts included. This venture took months to obtain so quite the find to add
to the collection. The original is from the Smithsonian Library and has been
digitized for public use. You can download a copy here
The text of the publication is in Italian, of course!
Weavers don't need to read the words--we can read the drafts
to make sense of the pattern.
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