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Tablet weaving, also called card weaving, is performed using small tablets or cards to manipulate threads. |
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Tablets in period were made of metal, bone or ivory, wood, or leather, and typically are square with a hole in each corner through which pass threads in either a left-to-right (S) or right-to-left (Z) direction. In period, tablets were also sometimes warped using only two adjacent holes, emulating weaves created using four-harness looms. Modern tablets are usually thin, sturdy cardboard or thin wood. The fabric being woven is formed by turning the tablets in a clockwise or counterclockwise direction. |
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Tablet weaving can produce relatively complex designs and can also be made using a brocade technique. Unlike inkle weaving, tablet weaving is not a warp-and-weft woven fabric but rather a twined material. |
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A number of articles relating to tablet weaving can be found [http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/topic_tabletweaving.html here], [http://www.stringpage.com here], [http://www.weavershand.com/#TW here] and [http://www.inkleweaving.com/index.html here]. One of the more comprehensive sources of information on tablet weaving including medieval references is a book called The Techniques of Tablet Weaving by Peter Collingwood; it is based on visits to museums with collections of tablet-woven materials along with other research and has a rather exhaustive [http://www.weavershand.com/twbiblio.html bibliography]. |
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