Creativity For as long as textiles have been created - whether by braiding, felting or weaving - craft-workers have been combining the functional requirements of the cloth with creative ideas. This may have been to enhance the textile's warmth or strength, to introduce different fibres, or to change the look of the textile with new dyes, pattern weaves, manipulation or sewing techniques, …
Category: Tablet Weaving
A warp-weighted Tablet Weaving Loom
I’m enjoying teaching myself about tablet weaving, through some reading and a lot of trial and error. Over the past few months I’ve spent quite a while experimenting with ways to make sure that I’ve got the right tension on the warp. And after a few false starts, the very ancient idea of using loom weights occurred …
Tablet Weaving
Tablet weaving (also known as card weaving) is an ingenious technique for taking long bundles of warp threads and passing them through perforated tablets, then manipulating these to make strong patterned bands. Historically this was done with either a back strap method or a structured loom. To weave with this technique, each card is normally …
More tablet weaving
I have been experimenting with different yarns for tablet weaving … and there has been plenty of trial and error! But I've learned a few things. Some are life-lessons I have resisted for years, like: it is much easier to get it right the first time that to fix things once they are all wrong. And …
The tablet weaving in action
When I get it all written, I'll load a few pages of background on the history and archaeology of all this weaving - including tablet weaving (or card weaving, as it’s also known). Basically, it is a technique of twisting densely-set warp threads around a narrow weft. It's possible to create surprisingly complex patterns this way using very …
Making a tablet weaving loom
According to the web sites, I can tie my warp to a door knob and proceed with tablet weaving without any loom at all. I tried that, but I think I need more consistent tension ... and I need to let people in the door sometimes! I have bought a plank of wood and …
Celtic Weaving 