Handwoven Tape: Understanding and Weaving Early American and Contemporary Tape

A documentation of the fascinating American history of traditional handwoven tape and its early uses, along with step—by—step instructions for how to make it, and how to use it in contemporary projects.

Narrow bands of woven tape were important to Americans in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, before the days of elastic and zippers. Many Early American households had a tape loom for making the tape needed by the family.

This book documents the fascinating American history of...