New pattern: bellflowers
Spent some time with paper and pencil, and GTT. Made a new pattern for double face double turn technique: bellflowers. Pattern is published here. Most probably there will be more double face patterns coming soon.
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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 …
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 …
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
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
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
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 …