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Julie wrote: >I was very inspired by the story about the >woman weaving an inscription band: I originally began >tabletweaving with an interest in something similar: I >wanted to weave a fine lettered band to commemorate >the ordination to the priesthood of a friend who has >been slowly working toward this goal for over 15 >years. Julie, I would like to encourage you to learn the double-faced weave and to keep your goal of weaving the inscription band for your friend. There are some real advantages to weaving letters as compared to other designs in the double-faced weave. One is the relatively small number of tablets needed. The letters shown in "The Techniques of Tablet Weaving" require only 18 tablets (if the ascenders and descenders touch the border). The Textura Quadrata band that I just finished needed 25 tablets for the letters. As an aside, one thing I regret about my double-faced book is that I chose to make all of the graphs 48 or 56 tablets wide. I now wish I had included some narrower graphs in that book, as it is easier for beginners to weave with fewer tablets. The alphabet book will solve this problem. Another advantage is that a majority of letters (those without ascenders and descenders) are the same height. So you can mark the top and bottom of the body of the letters on the graph and on the tablets themselves . This makes arranging the tablets for each row of the graph very quick and easy. Linda ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Linda Hendrickson, Portland, Oregon USA Tablet Weaving & Ply Split Braiding Workshops, Books, & Supplies E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web site: www.lindahendrickson.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Send private reply to Linda Hendrickson <[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.
