Before I get any further into this series, I thought it would be good to list resources. This will serve as both a bibliography, as well as a centralized location for online resources I've found. It's a work in progress, and I will add to it as I find more. If you know of any good ones on crackle that I don't mention here, I'd appreciate your pointing me to them in the comments.
Books
I think I now have most of the recommended books on the subject. Except for one, the older sources are about weaving in general, but have a good chapter or section on crackle. Three (one old and two new) are specifically about crackle. Those are:
- The Crackle Weave by Mary E. Snyder (1961)
- Weave Classic Crackle & More by Susan Wilson (2011)
- A Crackle Weave Companion by Lucy M. Brusic (2019)
- Designing and Drafting for Handweavers by Berta Frey (1958) chapter 10, "Crackle Weave"
- The Key to Weaving by Mary E. Black (1945) chapter 8, "Crackle Weave or Jämtlandsväv"
- A Handweaver's Pattern Book by Marguerite Porter Davison (1944) chapter XXI, "Crackle Weave"
- The Handweaver's Pattern Directory by Anne Dixon (2007) "Block Drafts. Crackle"
- The Shuttle-Craft Book of American Hand-Weaving by Mary Meigs Atwater (*1951 revised edition), "Chapter 12, "Additional Four-Harness Weaves: The Crackle Weave"
- The Weaver's Book by Harriet Tidball (1961) "The Twill Derivative Class: The Crackle System"
- *I have two editions of the Shuttle-Craft book: one of the original 1928 edition and also the revised 1951 edition. Crackle was added when the book was revised; it isn't mention in the original edition. A more detailed comparison of these two here.
- Most of the old books are out of print. Some are easy to find used, others not.
- Davison's A Handweaver's Pattern Book has been republished and you can find it here.
- The Key to Weaving by Mary Black was revised in 1957 as The New Key to Weaving. I don't have access to that edition so I don't know if the section on crackle has been revised.
- I'd like to do some book reviews on these in the future.
Periodicals
Shuttle-Craft Guild Bulletins starting in 1928 through the 1930s and 1940s (and beyond) have carried articles about crackle. These are available for PDF download from the On-Line Digital Archive of Documents on Weaving and Related Topics. I'll make a list of the issues as I identify them.
YouTube Videos
- The Core of Crackle by Chris at Action Creative is an excellent introduction to the basics. It's geared towards new weavers, so she explains a lot of the weaving terminology too.
- Talking About Weaving by Peg in South Carolina. That links to all the posts on her blog under the label "crackle." There are dozens of them, and I have yet to read and categorize all of them. She made a serious study of crackle and has lots of interesting ideas and experiments. Sadly, she hasn't blogged in a number of years.
- Block Substitution by Kerstin Fröberg at Bergdala Spinnhus website. Kerstin is Swedish but the article is in English. Explores the American evolution of Crackle.
- The A,B,C's and 1,2,3's of Classic Crackle by Susan at Thrums blog. I need to note that "classic crackle" described here as a two-shuttle weave, whereas, I'm defining it as discussed in the second section of this blog post ("Traditional Crackle versus Classic Crackle")
- Crackle Weave. A PDF at the University of Arizona.
- Crackle Weave at gathertextiles.com
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