Tag: historical items

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 

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,