Finishing Touches for the Handweaver
- ISBN-10
- 0934026408
- ISBN-13
- 9780934026406
- Category
- Crafts & Hobbies / Weaving & Spinning
- Pages
- 96
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1988
- Publisher
- Interweave Press
- Author
- Virginia M. West
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