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Well, for heaven's sake ... I started skimming through one of the books I bought at the Walters Art Museum the other day and discovered two more pictures of the Virgin Mary weaving on band looms. The information is given below for those of you who would like to include it on page 98 in Chapter Five of "EPAC". Book of Hours by the Master of the Munich "Golden Legend", Paris, ca. 1425-1430 (Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, MS. W. 288, fol 17) -- no tablets; no warp spreader; sword beater -- one upright post shown (painted bright red), about waist high, with no support base shown and no board between posts, with the band warped about a third of the way down from the top of the posts Book of Hours by the Master of the Collins Hours, Bruges, ca. 1440 (Philadelphia, Museum of Art, 1945-65-4, fol. 173v) -- hexagonal tablets with two holes in a tablet; no warp spreader, no sword beater - two upright posts, about waist height, on braced T bases, with no board between the two posts and the band warped about halfway down from the top of the posts Nancy / 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.
