#tablet weaving

[leo-fie]

We all know existential dread, but I propose (and please tell be if this is already a thing) existential awe.

Sometimes when I handsew or weave or something I get this immense feeling of connection to humanity. People for thousands of years all over the world have sat down and sewn a garment. Archeologists find needles and awls all the time. When I'm tablet weaving I have the same frustration at the arduous process of threading the tablets as the person 2600 years ago must have felt when they made the bands that were found in a celtic man's burial mount not far from my home. They probably also felt their back after a few hours of this.

[spontaneousmusicalnumber]

ough you know the book you want is obscure when even the internet archive hasnt heard of it and you can't find a pdf anywhere

this looks like a job for the formal inter library loan process at the municipal library

i've given them a year and a budget to get it to me so i can scan and keep all of the Finnish iron age tablet weaving patterns contained therein

[perikrone]

The depth of the global textile supply chain that you get into as you get into increasingly obscure fiber arts is so wild.

You can start with knitting, or crochet, and there are *so* many choices for yarn and materials. Indie dyers with unique colorways, weird fibers from heritage breeds, and patterns for hundreds of lifetimes worth of hobby. You can even dive into spinning! Buy weird fiber from hobbyists and conservationists around the world, and spin things that you can't easily get otherwise.. Just those skills are enough to take a lifetime to hone.

But if you go far enough down the rabbit-hole, you're suddenly googling for how to compare thread weights between crochet thread numbers and weaving numbers, and is flax graded differently than cotton? Oh, I can get 20/2 and 60/2 silk all day long, but suddenly if I need 30/2 silk there are just a handful of results and wow I'll never be able to buy this again, is this a random mill in Turkey just selling cone ends??? And before you know it you have a note file with 10,000 Etsy links and Google translated half functioning corporate websites and you're trying to figure out if it's worth it to just see if you can import from this tiny store in Germany that seems to have a reliable source of *close enough* fiber for what you're going for, and why are you even so into *tablet weaving* of all things, why can't we just be knitting endless socks or something like that???

Love it, wouldn't trade it for the world.

[fergalicious214]

Updates on crafting. I haven't been taking progress pics really but I've been slowly plodding away on a couple of crochet projects.

Caught up on October for my temperature tracker and finished three woven bands since I last took pictures.

[truthandshadow]

Can I just say I love how every tumblr weaver looks at inkle/tablet weaving and goes “Hm… pride flag band.”

[himikochan]

Don’t know if anyone has seen this before but here’s a free resource that basically tells you everything you need to know for your first tablet weaving project

It’s a website from 2003 and is very easy to read and has no paywall

[fungiwolf]

Finally done! I'm obsessed with how it looks

[emobatsy]

tablet weaving save me

[archaeology-findings]

Tablet weaving pattern from Byzantine Egypt

This is the original band, found in Necropolis D in Antinoöpolis, Egypt. It has been dated to c. 395-641 CE. It is currently held in the Louvre.

This is the threading diagram and turning sequence. The shaded squares indicate the cards should be turned backwards. The pattern is fortunately twist-neutral!

Here's how my reconstruction turned out:

The original weft used was a very fine natural linen thread but I chose to use the same white yarn as in the warp.

[grimmborg-in-the-bog]

Am i a 10th century baddie yet?

After four years of having my viking clothes mostly done, i've finally been made to finish them. My basics were all done back then, but this is more of a fancy summery fit that took a lot more work (especially the weaving)

Dress is based on the Vangsnes pleated dress, it's a super thin wool dyed with madder (the colour is a little uneven sadly)

Woven band is from a similar grave to vangsnes, but in Køstrup, because the vangsnes band is all swastikas

My brooches are NOT historical but just what i have rn :(

Half the beads are made by me, the other half were bought. it might be a bit much ngl but i felt very fancy

[gardenvarietycrafts]

Working on the band that I'll use to make a collar for my parents' dog, Archie, and I feel like my weaving has leveled up. I've done this pattern before, but this one definitely is turning out much smoother and with the actual pattern more visible.

[leo-fie]

This sheep tablet woven band might be the cutest thing I ever did. Probably because I don't do cute things often. But now I get the appeal.

[trkkr47]

Absolutely awesome new tablet weaving pattern!

[friendlymathematician]

third attempt: more complex pattern (24 cards, 52 row repeat), thinner yarn (8/2 mercerized cotton)

so satisfying

[that-other-lesbian-ellen]

List of activities considered the worst:

Loom warping

List of activities considered the best:

Weaving

After some issues figuring out which way is S threaded and which way is Z threaded, and having to flip over the entire project, finally got this going! Then I accidentally flipped the pattern vertically 🙃 But now it's recognizable! I just hope the yarn doesn't fray completely apart before I finish.

Pattern I was going for and pattern I ended up with below. Intended for gradient of 10 colors and a neutral, designed by me using Tablet Weaving Draft Designer.

(The rainbow yarn was a present from someone who bought the first thing that came up on Amazon when he searched "yarn." The experience of tablet weaving with it is 0/10. It's using up the yarn, though. There should be one more diagonal of light blue, instead of the left most dark green diagonal, but I ran out of light blue. The neutral is leftover from another project. The loom was handmade by me.)