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Nancy wrote:
>Guido, one of the strangest things I found during my research was that while
>there are definitely 6-sided tablets shown in medieval illuminations, I did
>not found any existing remains of bands woven with 6-sided tablets, at least
>of the brocaded variety.
There are, however, remains of non-brocaded medieval 6-hole weaves. Some
are mentioned in Peter's book, and there's at least one other from Hull,
circa 1300. All the ones I know of are threaded-in patterns.
I wondered if the illuminators were taking artistic
>license, especially since they also show 8-sided tablets but no "normal"
>4-sided tablets.
There's at least one extant piece that was probably woven on 8-hole
tablets, the Malatesta belt.
Carolyn
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