In the Creative Leisure Series, this is a valuable handbook on the craft of spinning and weaving. The aim is to show the use of creative imagination in the art of weaving and to show that it is not an expensive leisure activity. It covers different types of wool along with technical terms and then moves on to the art of spinning and knitting. With black and white illustrations as well as figure drawings to illustrate patterns, the book finishes with advice on "turning thread into cloth" and setting up a loom. The final section analyses some tartan patterns. A board book illustrated front and back. Slight foxing to pastedowns and covers a little shelf-worn, otherwise clean and intact- no former owner's inscriptions. Author: Glen Pownall. Published by Allison & Busby, 1973 (Glen Pownall's Creative Leisure Series). 80pp.