Sponsored by TWIST - Tablet Weavers International Studies & Techniques Hello to the list. A colleague in Australia, Sarah Randles, has just sent me a copy of a page from a psalter (Douce MS 131) in the Bodleian Library in Oxford. Written in about AD 1300 in England or France, folio 18v shows a woman sitting in a tent doing tablet weaving. She is sitting on what appears to be a stool or pillow covered in red and is working at the "normal" medieval band loom as shown in my book. There are definitely tablets -- hexagonal ones -- and the weaver is using a sword to beat down the weft. The warp threads are yellow; there does not appear to be a warp spreader. The weaver is not the Virgin Mary but is a queen of some sort as she is wearing a gold crown. Nancy Mistress Ingvild Send private reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------- To stop receiving tabletweaving (not tabletweaving-digest), send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: unsubscribe tabletweaving. To stop receiving tabletweaving-digest, see the end of a digest.
