Tag: historical items

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,