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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...