Share my passion for tablet weaving
The day before yesterday I finished the band, and yesterday I spent the whole day making tassels in between wiping small sniffly noses. 🙂 I’m really pleased with the results of all the experiments. Now I just need to think of a use for the …
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 …
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, …