The tapes in question do not have a sewing edge as in a twist, twist, whole stitch, twist, twist. There are no spaces. They are solid like a shoe lace. Some are woven perpendicularly. Some appear to be woven diagonally. If you look at the piece, 88.2.7 on the museum site, a piece said to date from 1625-1650, http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/212557?rpp=20&pg =1&ao=on&ft=88.2.7&pos=1#fullscreen enlarge it and look at the very far right hand side, you can see a raveling that looks like one thread being raveled the way a ribbon would ravel. It doesn't look like a double weft as you would have in linen stitch, although it could be made like a talley, but in my opinion, more easily on a loom. Unfortunately it is not a very good picture. . Devon
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