Before You Start Tablet Weaving — a Checklist
Tablet weaving is fraught with trapdoors, little mistakes that are easy to make. This pre-weaving checklist may keep you from falling into one.
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Knots, More Knots, and Rotating Knots
A Dutch tablet weaver and I turn tablet-woven knot patterns back and forth.
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Rainbow rain, Agnes Martin, and Moments of Perfection
How did the abstract painter Agnes Martin inspire the composition of this tablet-woven band, and what’s the connection with “moments of perfection”? (Click the image to see a larger version)
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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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From one card-weaving warp, many patterns
Every year at the Minnesota State Fair I demonstrate my favorite off-loom weaving technique, card weaving. By spending just a few minutes between sections, flipping and turning cards to new initial positions, and changing the turning sequence, I was able to weave several bookmarks with a wide variety of patterns, all from the same warp.
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Tablet-weaving a necklace with pendant
I tablet-wove a necklace that seamlessly ended with a wider pendant with a double-faced Kokopelli pattern.
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Up, down, left, right, S, Z: tablet weaving’s confusing nomenclature
You pick up a book on card or tablet weaving at a bookstore or online, and learn how to do it. Later you find another book, but the instructions and diagrams are different. Your attempts to weave from drafts in the second book look awful. What’s wrong? Help is on the way!
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The tablet-woven belts of East Telemark, Norway—Part 2: A closer look
Several members of Scanweavers drove back to Decorah, Iowa for a second visit to the Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum to examine the fabulous belts in their archives.
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The tablet-woven belts of East Telemark, Norway—part 1: Inspiration
Each year the Scanweavers (the Scandanavian Weavers Interest Group of the Weavers Guild of Minnesota) select a project for the year. Each member weaves their own interpretation of the project. This year we elected to weave something that is inspired by an artifact at the Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum in Decorah, Iowa.
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Weaving a lettered band from novelty yarn
Fun and frustration weaving a lettered band from bumpy, metallic yarn.
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