Family Heir-Loom Weavers
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home of President Abraham Lin
coln m Springfield, Illinois, in
their popular maple leaf pattern as
well as geometries and floral
designs.
Subsequent in-grain carpeting
,obs read like a list of must-visit
historic sites: The Surrender
Room of the McClean House at
Appamatox, Virginia, where the
Civil War officially ended:
Wheatland, home of President
James Buchanan in Lancaster;
Henry Ford Museum m Dearborn,
Michigan; Mark Twain’s house in
Hannibal, Missouri; the Russian
Bishop’s House in Sitka, Alaska;
Waitangi Treaty House in Waitan
gi, New Zealand, and a numerous
others across the country.
In some cases, an old picture is
the only source of original pattern.
In others, Kline has an actual
piece of the original in-grain.
Except for the brighter color of the
reproduction, they appear nearly
identical. Woven in yard-wide
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lengths, the sections are hand
stitched together along the sel
vaged edge, providing a neat, flat
seam. A cushioned pad goes under
the carpet at installation.
Development of a new pattern
may take as much as six months
from design beginning to a roll of
warp ready for the loom. Desig
ners lay out a pattern on tiny
section graph paper, known as a
point paper or a “cartoon.” A
computer then reads the point pap
er and transfers it to a program for
designing the punched cards.
Kline is currently weaving in
grain in geometric and floral
designs for “Sunnyside,” the
home of author Washington Irving
(Legend of Sleepy Hollow), in
Tarry town, New York. And Heir-
Loom in-grain was recently
installed at Niagra-On-The-Lake
in the home of the inventor of the
Trivial Pursuit game.
“We’ve been to visit some of
the sites,” says Carol Kline,
whose friendliness and good
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humor welcomes customers to the
small showroom-office. “After
we did Lincoln’s home, we
thought it would be nice to visit
where our carpet is installed, but
we’re too busy weaving to
travel.”
Heir-Loom Weaver’s sho
wroom is a casual, homey setting.
A pet cat or two may be napping
on the bed where a traditional
coverlet in white, navy and cran
berry is on display. Shelves hold
displays of placemats, table run
ners, staircoverings, and the vari
ous textiles reproductions crafted
on-site.
While Carol had formerly oper
ated equipment like the quillcr,
which winds large spools of
thread onto smaller ‘ ‘bobbins’ ’ for
use in the loom shuttles, office
chores and marketing now con
sume most of Carol’s time.
Son Patrick became a weaver
several years ago when he was
laid off from the electronics indus
try. Though then unfamiliar with
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weaving, Pat learned quickly.
Today, along with his full-time
work at Heir-Loom, Pat has four
looms in his garage where he
weaves cloth for Civil War-era
costuming and battle re-enactment
garments.
Having helped his father tear
down and rebuild much of the old
weaving equipment, Patrick has
become adept at loom mechanics.
He also “banks the creel,” the ini
tial threading of the colored yarns
onto the warping maching,
Ida’s
Notebook
Ida Risser
Picnics are an important part of
summer. There are many kinds of
picnics and they can range from a
box lunch shared by two people to
an elaborate catered affair.
Last year my high school class
rented a pavilion and had a caterer
bring the food and other necessary
items. It was a convenient way to
serve 100 people.
Sometimes my children would
ask me to pack a bag lunch for
them and they’d walk down into
the meadow and sit along the river
to eat it. They usually combined
fishing with the little “get away”
from work.
Years ago when my parents
were living, we had an annual
picnic in our meadow. One or two
other families were also included
and we used a stone fireplace that
was built near the nver bank.
Floods, over the years, have
destroyed every visible sign of it
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according to design directions.
“We all pitch in at whatever
needs doing,” Carol says. That
might include answering phones,
talking with restoration publica
tion editors, handling sales, trim
ming threads, or attending various
regional craft shows at which the
Kline’s display their weaving.
Family Heir-Loom Weavers is
located at R 3, Box 59E, Red Lion,
PA, 17356. They may be con
tacted at that address or by calling
717-246-2431.
In those days the river was used a
lot for swimming. In fact, on Sun
days, we’d have several cars drive
into our meadow for a few hours
of country pleasure. At that lime
my father had a flock of sheep that
kept the grass clipped very short.
Today one would have to tiptoe
around all of the cow piles.
I remember a double date where
we look a basket lunch along and
ate it on the grounds of the Gettys
burg Battlefield. And, would you
believe it, we allowed the boys to
bring the food.
A group in our church recently
had a picnic on the church
grounds. We each brought a dish
to share and ate in close proximity
to the large modem kitchen. It was
an evening with very nice weather
but somehow it didn’t seem like
the old-fashioned picnics that I
remember as a youth.