On weights

On weights

Weights are progressing slowly. It seems that most people who tension their warp for tablet weaving using weights tend to use fishing weights. For example, Guntram does it this way. Initially, I planned to follow his example, but it turned out that my grandfather, who 

Look before you leap…

Look before you leap…

That’s exactly how it went for us – we looked, and we looked again, and we looked… and then we leaped. Quite unexpectedly, really. That is, we ordered the loom. Just in time for the end of summer and the beginning of the new indoor 

Tablet weaving: earliest finds

Tablet weaving: earliest finds

An incredibly persistent theory is that the earliest finds related to tablet weaving date back to Ancient Egypt. Despite the fact that the hypotheses supporting this theory have long been proven to be wrong, many sources continue to assert, for example, that the oldest example 

Wide bands, looms and tablets

Wide bands, looms and tablets

Not long ago, a rather fascinating topic came up in one of the tablet weaving communities: how, and with what equipment, were wide tablet-woven bands made in the Middle Ages? Among the surviving examples of historical tablet-woven bands, there are both very wide ones and 

The right to make mistakes

The right to make mistakes

It’s fascinating how a woven band from Cologne repeatedly prompts the same question: was this pattern intentionally designed to look as it does, or are we looking at a random result caused by a mistake made during threading the tablets? If the latter is true, 

Remembering Peter Collingwood

Remembering Peter Collingwood

When I first became interested in tablet weaving, someone handed me a copy of a book that had somehow come into her possession. It wasn’t even a copy of an original but a copy of a copy of a copy of the first edition of 

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