mmcnealy | And the week goes by....

This week has so far started out pretty good. Sold two of the books I was trying to sell on Amazon and those went in the mail yesterday. I put in an order for an article from Waffen-und Kostumen on tablet woven trim used on Spanish style clothing in the 16th century, hopefully it will have patterns and closeups, as well as details like color and content.

Then last night I found someone who is willing to barter some tablet woven trim in exchange for making me a pair of shoes from a pair found in a 1590's shipwreck. Now I just need to learn to tablet weave.... But that's the plan for this week after I get the homework done, which shouldn't be a stretch. Dialog is a pretty easy system to pick up.

Today the washer repair guy came out again, and diagnosed the washer has having a failed transmission. Washers have transmissions??? WTH? Anyway, its kaput! And the new one from Sears should hopefully be here soon. I hope so, not having a washer is seriously cramping my sewing style.

Off to go slog through homework and then its fencing tonight. ~smiles~ 4/8 binds and balestra lunges here I come.

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At the last NESAT (Northern European Symposium on Archaeological Textiles) in 2002 there was a danish woman who presented a recent find of a 15th or 16th century pattern book for tablet weaving. Unfortunately the report from the symposium doesn't seem to be coming anytime soon. The report from NESAT VIII, in 1999 isn't printed yet!
I've tried to get some info on the latest report since I have an article there, but haven't heard anything yet.
It sucks! But I've heard it's almost always like this with reports from conferences.

Eva

*sigh*, that's just the sort of information that I'm looking for too. Sometimes the presentations are excerpts from peoples thesises, do you think this might be the case?

No, and there were a lot of danes there and they all have similar names, but I'll try to see if I can find out who she was, when I get to work tomorrow. I have a clear memory of how she looked and a faint memory of what she wore, but names? No, of course not.

Eva

Oh well, if you can remember her name that would be *wonderful*! At some point the proceedings of the conference will be published and I can get the information then.

I'm quite sure her name was Lise Raeder Knudsen, although the programme from the conference says that she was going to talk about a 13th c tablet woven band, but as I remember it she talked about both.
I actually have her email (or at least the one she had two years ago). Email me at eva.andersson (at) history.gu.se and I'll give it to you, since I don't want to write it here.

Eva

I know I'm coming late here, but if you ask on the SCA-tablet weaving list, both Lise Knudsen and Nancy Spies are subscribers, and they should respond. Nancy Spies is the co-author of a translated tablet weaving pattern book written by, IIRC, a 70-year old nun in the 16th century. It is for brocaded bands.

http://www.weavershand.com/ArelateStudioneuper.htm

Ah, yes, Anna Neuper's Modelbuch. I have a copy and I noticed that the designs are a group of designs with variations all relatively similar in scope, but worthy of having nonetheless. Nancy's first book, Ecclesiastical Pomp and Aristocratic Circumstance is more of a history of brocaded tablet weaving but it does have a lot of patterns, plus the years it covers are just about every extant brocaded band with a published archaeological report.

Nancy weaves with 60/2 silk from The Handweaver's Studio in England and uses Kreinik #7 Japan for her brocade weft. I don't have the patience to weave so small, so I'm still looking for a larger set of silk threads and plied #7 combination so I can get a little more bang for my very limited weaving time.

Thanks for the book link, what a nummy looking book!

The person who is making my shoes is 12-13th century Frankish, and chose that time because of the lack of documentation! I just smile and nod and look for pretty patterns that will catch her eye.

I have just worked with wool so far, haven't started on silk yet, want to get the technique down before I switch to the expensive stuff.

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