A seal tag with card-woven tape, double-faced design.

Warp Transposition and the Mystery of the Missing Seal Tag

When reviewing the card-weaving technique of transposing cards, I dug into the historical origins of a pattern found on a Viking-age seal tag. Peter Collingwood describes the technique and the pattern in The Techniques of Tablet Weaving, and refers to a research article that describes that ancient textile. When I looked up the article, my historical digging suddenly hit a […]

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