Share my passion for tablet weaving
The loom is working absolutely brilliantly. I can’t think of anything to complain about. It’s still unclear whether the weights needs adjusting. While the tablets were all in one pack, the warp threads were making a lot of sounds as the tablets were turning. Once …
Today I finally got around to preparing the warp for the first band on this loom. I pre-cut the warp threads. Then I took them in groups of four according to what was needed for each tablet and tied them to the front end of …
Used materials: linen fabric, linen and cotton thread, wollen yarn, metal rings, lead pellets. Needle, scissors, sewing machine. Kitchen scale. Hands. 😀 Made 18 weights – according to number of tablets needed to weave the pattern I chose for the test band. Initially I wanted …
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 …
Sharing a wonderful resource: Antique Pattern Library has over 200 old books on handicraft. The books have been scanned and made available in PDF format. The oldest edition dates back to 1844, while the newest ones were published in the 1930s. The copyrights for these …
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 …
An interesting observation: it seems that the regulation of many handicraft techniques and methods began in the 19th century, during the period of national revival in many countries. By “regulation”, I mean the establishment of clear rules about how certain types of handicraft should or …
Inspired by the latest entry in the Guestbook. To this day, I still shudder when I remember the countless, pointless pocket samples we used to sew at school during craft lessons. I don’t recall us actually being taught anything – we were simply given tasks: …
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 …
I sometimes wonder how many people actually pay attention to copyright information when reading a craft book or using a pattern collection. Probably not that many – especially since most publications simply include the standard line “all rights reserved”. But now and then, you come …
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 …
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, …