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Nancy Spies asked:- >This is fascinating stuff, Peter. What are your own opinions on the two >terminologies? Structure is something you can almost always discover from an old textile, unless it is too compacted, half-burnt, too precious to delve into. So a terminology that rests on structure has a strong basis in visible fact. The method of production is often 1) never recorded, 2) has never observed, and 3) is not unequivocally deducible from the final fabric. So though this system leads to interesting technical classifications, it cannot I believe be applied with such confidence. The first terminology is found in 'The Primary Structure of Fabrics' by Irene Emery, 1966; a book with hundreds of references, photos of all the structures worked in thick yarn for clarity, and a very careful balanced text. She does not deal with braids in any depth. The second terminology began as Professor Alfred and Kristin Buhler- Oppenheim's catalogue of a famous collection of textiles, assembled by Fritz Ikle-Huber; published in 1948. This was later made into a book by Annemarie Seiler-Baldinger, who worked at the same museum in Basel. I see my copy of the latest English translation 'Textiles a Classification of Techniques' (ISBN 1 86333 110 7, dated 1994) has many marginal notes where I disagree! The author does give the names of the techniques in several European languages as a plus. I think you can see which way I lean between these two options! peter collingwood, http://www.petercollingwood.co.uk Send private reply to peter collingwood <[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.
