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I think that the ground weave is probably a straightforward warp-twined
4-hole tablet weave, it's just that I couldn't figure out what the pattern
might have been because the band is so damaged and faded.
To protect the band from further deterioration, it is also kept in very low
light, so it is, indeed, very hard to see the details. However, seeing the
band is wonderful, as is the whole rest of the Viking Ship museum. It was
one of my favorite stops on our trip to Norway a few years ago. I would
advise anyone going to Oslo to avoid the "canned" bus tours that take you
there. I watched many a bus tour just drop in, stay for 15 or 20 minutes,
and leave. You'll want at least several hours, if not all day at the
museum. It's easy enough to take a water taxi from the Oslo waterfront to
the museum.
And while you're there, take a walk to the nearby folklife museum, where
they have wonderful reconstructions of early homes, stave churches,
etc. In the "weaving shop," they sell replicas of the tablets used in the
Oseberg band. (These are perhaps also sold in the Viking Ship museum shop,
but I don't remember seeing them there.) These are rather crude wooden
replicas, but they are true to the size the ones on the Oseberg band.
Ruth
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