HANDS ON RIGID HEDDLE WEAVING, Betty Linn Davenport.
This easy-to-use guide covers choosing, setting up, and weaving on a rigid heddle loom, and things you can make with plain-weave variations. The rigid heddle loom is light, portable and particularly suited for 2-harness weaves.  Despite its almost toy-like appearance, beautiful fabrics can be woven on it, as the author so well demonstrates.  She starts off by telling you to select a loom, then goes on to warping it and weaving on it.  She discusses sett, balanced weave, weft-emphasis and weft-faced fabrics, warp-emphasis and warp-faced fabrics, surface textures, and tapestry. If you want to start weaving with a very small investment, this is the way to go.  Very well-illustrated in black & white and color. ISBN:0934026254.  120 pages, softcover 8½" x 10¾".   $24.95  #239067

A HANDWEAVER'S PATTERN BOOK, Marguerite P. Davison.
The core of any weaver's library would be incomplete without this book. It contains patterns for 4-harness weaves such as Summer & Winter, Crackle, Swedish Lace, Overshot, Huck, M's & O's, and Twill. The draft, tie-up and treadling are given for each pattern and it variation, with a photograph of a swatch for each pattern described. All told, there are 345 treadling directions well-illustrated with photographs of over 1200 swatches. This is a valuable reference book. ISBN: 0960317201.  8¾" x 11¼"  216 pages, hardcover, $38.00  #139188

HANDWOVEN MAGAZINE, Interweave Press.
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HANDWOVEN RUGS: Shuttle Craft Monograph 29, Mary M. Atwater.
This monograph on rugs gives you considered, but biased opinions and much information, tersely stated, to get you started in a variety of techniques - traditional, yet to be interpreted at will.  The finishes are interesting, too - neolithic and sword point ties, for example.  Much information on 28 pages and with many of Mary Atwater's readily recognizable drawings. ISBN: 0916658295. 28 pages, 8" x 10½" softcover. $9.95  #139215