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Mattie Phipps Todd

Best known for a practical early-1900s guide to hand weaving, this craft educator wrote with the clear, encouraging tone of someone who wanted making things by hand to feel useful, creative, and within reach. Her work connects classroom learning, home craft, and the long history of weaving.

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Hand-Loom Weaving: A Manual for School and Home

Hand-Loom Weaving: A Manual for School and Home

by Mattie Phipps Todd

About the author

Mattie Phipps Todd is known for Hand-Loom Weaving: A Manual for School and Home, published in 1902. In the book, she is identified as being "of the Motley School, Minneapolis, Minn.," and the manual was issued with an introduction by educator Alice W. Cooley.

Her writing is hands-on and practical. The book explains weaving techniques, materials, and projects for beginners, while also making the case that weaving belonged in school life as a way to build skill, patience, and creativity.

Reliable biographical detail about her appears to be scarce in the sources available here, so the picture that survives is mainly through her book itself: a teacher and craft advocate who helped present hand-loom weaving as both an everyday art and a useful part of education.