Tag: applied history

Historical pattern library

Historical pattern library

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 

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,