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Gudrun Polak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I believe a discussion of sling braids has come up in the past on this >list, but it was before I joined and no references can be found in the >archive. A good place to discuss making sling braids by traditional methods (or less traditional) that would be off-topic here is the braids&bands list. I don't think they have been discussed there yet, though. I would be very interested to see discussion here about making them using tablets. My first reaction was that it wouldn't be possible to make these round/square/rectangular braids (not bands, because no separate weft), using tablets. Having visited your link, I realise that those are simulating the colour patterns on the surface of the braids (very successfully). I still doubt that you could recreate the actual structure using cards in any practical way. Bonnie asked about books. There are instructions for doing some sling braids using a marudai (Japanese braiding stand, for the uninitiated) or a card with slits in Rodrick Owen's "Big Book of Sling and Rope Braids". Adele Cahlander's "Sling Braiding of the Andes" (ISBN 0-937452-03-3, 1980) has instructions for making the braids in the traditional way - some 'downward' from a support point, some held in the fist and worked 'upward'. More useful for discussion of transferring the patterns to tablet weaving would be her structural analyses of the braids. "The Art of Bolivian Highland Weaving" (Cason and Cahlander, 1976) includes flat braids. I'm not sure whether the braids are actually sling braids, and I can't find my copy to check. BTW, Betty Lou Whaley has used tablets to recreate some backstrap-loom-woven bands shown in that book. While I was looking for it, I came across Cahlander's "Double-Woven Treasures from Old Peru" (ISBN 0-932394-05-1, 1985), and that has bands which look (at first glance) as though they could be recreated (perhaps structurally as well as the colour patterns) using tablets. -- Jenny Kosarew from England mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.whorls.freeserve.co.uk Berkshire Guild Page: http://www.whorls.freeserve.co.uk/guild The Braid Society: http://www.braidsociety.org Send private reply to Jenny Kosarew <[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.
