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Nancy, check your last issue of the TWIST journal, page 14. Then go to this new TWIST web page to find the other similarly named article on Bhutanese tablet weaving (Summer 1996). http://www.weavershand.com/twistarticles.html Janis >So here I was, casually leafing through a new book called "From the Land of >the Thunder Dragon: Textile Arts of Bhutan" that I'd picked up at a museum >in DC because it was on sale. And once again, I was amazed to find tablet >weaving jumping out at me! Apparently tabletwoven bands are a traditional >textile in Bhutan, and it is hypothesized that it came from Tibet where the >TW loom is called "kothag" (leather loom) because the tablets are typically >made of animal hide. Well, I'll be darned! > >Does anyone have any further information about tablet weaving in this area of >the world? History? Designs? Etc.? From the pictures in this book, it >seems that they are doing brocaded TW. Ah. Send private reply to Janis Saunders <[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.
