Adventures in Historical Tabletweaving

I finally got some photos of a couple of items I finished long after the tablet weaving for them was complete, and thought I'd share. They are the Kentish band on metal strips on purple silk, which has been turned into the neck and bicep trim in my new day bliaut, and the "Dogs and Flowers" cingulum . The cingulum lay unfinished for a long time because I couldn't work out how to finish it. I wanted it to look like the one below, which is one of the figures from Chartres cathedral. The dangly bits are tied loosely in a reef knot and the length of them seems to have many horizontal lines. I haven't managed to find any theories on how exactly this was achieved. Obviously the resulting dangly bits must be quite heavy for the knot to stay open like that. In the end I just bound the length of the ends in (cheap, synthetic) piping. Obviously the materials are way off, but the look is pretty good I think. The knot stays in place no problem, and the weight also mea...

Warp: Purple silk Weft: White linen Brocade: Gold strip Pattern: "Sarre 94" - Kentish pattern Cards: 9 Width: 7mm Length: Approx. 1.2 metres What's new: Metal strip brocade, brocade on both sides (in places) I wanted to do a band using metal strips and the Kentish bands seemed most appropriate. The pattern is one from Þora sharptooth 's site (It's also on Ælfflæd's Saxon Rabbit which has a wider variety of Kentish patterns) . I altered it slightly to make it symmetrical to my eye. I used a white linen weft because I wanted to see what it looked like- linen was often used as a weft but it probably wasn't dyed to match the warp-not always anyway. The contrasting weft shows up at the edges and looks alright if the weaving is perfect, but is very unforgiving of aberrations. The metal strip I used was uncoiled Rajmahal Sadi thread . It makes for a very thin strip. I used it double. It didn't seem very annoying to use but I seemed to be going a l...