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Nancy wrote:
>Deborah Pulliam, on one of the spinning lists, just posted the information
>that most of the knitted silk items she's studied were knitted with strands
>of reeled silk used together but not plyed. Would that work for TW?
Most (although not all) of the medieval silk TW I've read about has been
woven with 2-ply reeled silk warp; sometimes weft was plain reeled silk or
other materials. Two ply yarn, in *any* material, seems much more suited
to tablet weaving than single ply yarn, as Peter notes in his materials
chapter. Presumably one would ply silk the same way as other materials:
twist each ply in one direction and then twist both plies together in the
other direction.
All the catalogue entries for medieval knitting that I could put my hands
on just now (six) used S-twisted reeled silk. Reeled silks of the S-, Z-,
and/or untwisted ("I" twist) variety were typically used for weaving cloth.
Carolyn
Carolyn Priest-Dorman
capriest @ cs. vassar .edu
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