Threading direction Using a magnetic board This pattern recreates a tablet-woven trim, based upon trim found in a salt mine in Hallstatt, Austria, dated to 800-400 BCE. Woven in 3/1 ...

The First Band Tablet-woven bands are beautiful, handcrafted and robust. That is why we like them. Strong bands are so useful: dog leashes, bag straps and the like. But because ...

Full length wall decoration - five tablet-woven bands sewn side by side - wooden dowel with wooden bead at each end - divided and wrapped top and bottom warp ends ...

Figure 1: Detail from the original band Figure 2: Pattern diagram I have been a band weaver for some years, and I have very much enjoyed exploring different techniques, using ...

It is fascinating how different the same motif looks if you weave it in different tablet weaving techniques. The origin of this motif is from Egypt, Antinoé, grave 84, dated ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has been —and still is— challenging. However, this has led to some significant steps in improving the accessibility of museums all over the world, as some of ...

When I started learning to tablet weave, I had a terrible time reading the charts. They looked simple enough, but I was constantly getting lost. I would turn a tablet ...

The band from the sleeve fragment of the Metropolitan Museum The sleeve fragment was in 1890 a gift of George F. Baker to the Metropolitan Museum. There is not much ...

When I retired some years ago, I asked myself, “What do I want to do with my freedom?” There were and are numerous things to choose among but one thing ...

Replica of Grödingebonaden at Grödinge Church, Sweden, woven by Handarbetets Vänner, Stockholm and donated to the church in 1952. It is a double weave called finn weave. Photo: Jssfrk, CC ...

I am not a stranger to sharing tablet weaving online. In the Summer 1996 edition of TWIST (Volume III, Issue 2), there’s a note in the News section: “There is ...

I often use my inkle loom for tablet weaving. Not wanting to make any permanent modifications to the inkle loom, I made a warp spreader that slides over the far ...

In tablet woven bands we can find small details disclosing advanced techniques. What can the Snartemo II narrow band tell us? In tablet woven bands we can find small details ...

Whenever Claudia Wollny publishes a new tablet weaving book, I have high expectations. She has always written beautiful books with easy to understand instructions and countless patterns. With her newest ...

Basic Concepts The double-faced technique is used to weave geometric designs, pictorial images, letters, and symbols. The designs appear on both sides of the weaving, with the colors and image ...

Otfried Staudigel was a master tablet-weaver from Krefeld. I never had a chance to meet him, yet a long-lasting exchange of letters revealed his strong affinity for the French language. ...

As a self-taught tablet weaver, I have read many websites and books on how to tablet weave – and they all use a different method to notate the patterns and ...

The Border from Antinoé Grave C 333 The narrow border, which comes from grave C 333 in Antinoé, was woven using two-hole technique. It is sewn onto a fragment of ...

band woven by Barbara, TWIST Member since 1999 There are so many things I could tell about my mother and her nice hobbies; it is difficult for me to do ...

Photo 1: Barbara May demonstrates good posture as well astablet weaving at the Handweaving Museum at Rupperath,near Euskirchen, Germany. Photo: Matthias May In our so highly civilized world, aching backs, ...

Blue sky, white snow and brown bark. Here is a complete Finnish winter landscape with a snowflake-like pattern. This beautiful band was woven by none other than one of the ...

advanced pattern with 24 cards Lexicon “3/1 broken twill" is a special card weaving technique with its own "twill" structure; this technique is very different from twill in loom weaving. ...

In excavations of burial grounds in Egypt, for example, Antinoé, which were carried out in the 19th century, many textiles have been found. These are known as Coptic textiles, fabrics ...

You will discover in the following pages a very interesting article by Silvia Aisling, describing several bands from ancient Egypt. To write the patterns, Silvia used a very simple yet ...

Figure 1 It started with those handsome Kivrim bands some Viking re-enactors used to decorate their clothes: Running Dog and Ram’s Horns from Anatolia.My idea was to place Kivrim where ...

Threading can sometimes go awfully wrong. In this case, the best scenario is probably putting it aside, clearing your mind and coming back to it a few hours or even ...

Santa Barbara, California - Summer 2001. My husband was a guest scientist at the university for a few months, and I planned to attend meetings of the local guild of ...

Figure 1: a sazigyo from Burma (Myanmar) – a decorated inscription band for binding religious texts. Sample of the text in the body of the band Figure 2: detail of ...

Last summer, our TWIST journal brought us a refreshing surprise: a "Mystery Weave." Anne-Laure Janssen, our new Editor, introduced this feature to provide fun and suspense to the readers, but ...

Most of you are familiar with Maikki Karisto and Mervi Pasanen’s book Applesies and fox noses1*. Some of you may also follow their Facebook page, lautanauhat/tablet weaving where they share ...

Egyptian diagonals are a gift to tablet weavers. Even beginner weavers can produce these bold, eye-catching designs. But these designs aren't just for beginners. John Mullarkey has released a new ...

 Translated by Aviva Peres  This work is a meeting between a joy of the mind–poetry, and a joy of the hands–weaving. During my years of work as a librarian in ...

I would like to introduce a new heading in the Journal: the mystery weave. The idea originated with a post by Sarah Pritchard in the tablet weaving sharing group on ...

I have the pleasure of teaching handwork (AKA fiber arts) at Winterberry Charter School in Anchorage, Alaska. Winterberry is a Waldorf methods school. One aspect of our school is that ...

by Ute Bargmann and Claudia Wollny Self-published, 2018 The Codex Palatinus Germanicus 5511 was written in the 15th century by nuns of the “Poor Clares.”2 Originally the manuscript was described as instructions ...

Egyptian Diagonals, also called Double-Card Double-Turn Diagonals, is one of my favorite tablet weaving techniques. I can warp twenty cards in ten minutes, spend two minutes setting up, and start ...

Richly patterned and brocaded tablet-woven bands have always received a lot of attention. With the multitude of photos of original bands in the museums as well as photos of their ...

The TWIST gathering at Convergence® in Reno, Nevada July 6, 2018 drew a room-filling crowd of around forty people. It was a great mix: well-known tablet weavers, enthusiasts, current and ...

The different ways of marking hole positions in the tablet and the differing ways of looking at the threaded tablets (tablet slant versus threading direction) will at times cause a ...

Keep skeins under control with a laundry basket The more colors you use during warping, the more nightmarish it can get, especially when—like me—you use skeins instead of cones. The ...

Claire Gerentet demonstrates weaving with tablets as her daughter Maguy plays cithara. 15th century church in Mérignat, France, now a center for cultural activities.   A special family project was ...

Claudia Wollny Self-published, 2017 Review © 2018 by Sandra Millar, Kelowna BC I am very new to card weaving. My interest came about because of a mention in a piece ...

Kartweeftechniken: patronen met kettingflottering De Kaart, Gelselaar, Holland, 2017 Review © 2018 by Birgit Höffmann In her newest book Marijke van Epen gives us her interpretation of a number of ...

Considered one of the most beautiful and most complex Finnish tablet woven bands, the Masku Humikkala band lead to some important discoveries in Finnish tablet weaving: tubular selvages and double ...

Claudia shares her latest pattern with us, the stylized hearts shown in the band on the front cover. This pattern may be combined with twill patterns from Claudia’s books A ...

 Claudia Wollny Self-published, 2017 Review © 2018 by Lausanne Allen Claudia Wollny’s much anticipated Tablets At Work began arriving to our mail boxes with a hearty thud early last December ...

“Dear Anne-Laure, I'm running an SF and fantasy convention (Worldcon 75) in Helsinki in August and I just found your beautiful weaving (I particularly like your tablet-woven bands!). I wondered ...

Some years ago I saw a hat with a hatband which was woven with many different special birds. As a tablet weaver I became very interested; but I did not ...

Walking through the Eastern Bhutanese countryside, one can hear the tak tak of backstrap weavers pounding wefts into place. A faster tak tak rhythm indicates that a woman is weaving ...

Serendipitous Time Travel Many fortunate circumstances were at work to bring the stole and maniple in almost perfect condition to St. Donat at Arlon in Belgium. In general, the two ...

Photo 1: Woven band with peacock design. During my several decades as a tablet weaver, I always was struck by the beauty of Persian bands with images of birds like ...

Figure 1 In the Fall 2004 issue of TWIST, we spoke about the very important role that a belt plays not only in clothing but also generally in Russian traditional ...

Photo 1 By Karen van Gelder-Mauve From Handwerken Zonder Grenzen, May 1986, page 31-36, Amsterdam, Holland. Edited by Henriette Beukers The English translation form Dutch is by Liesel van Cleef ...