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I am not sure whence I got kivrim = bent. In Kosswig's writings she translates it as 'spiral'. The mirror-imaged motif she calls 'keci boynuzu' or goats horn. (One can be sure she is meticulously accurate as she even includes an innocent diamond shape with its name, 'goat shit!). In her 1965 article she says... this is a summary from her German text .. "A widespread motif in Turkey is the 'Rams horn'. a double spiral .... This ornament is characteristic of all Turkmen woven and knotted designs. It is know from first century BC among the Altai people. It is only the Turkmen and Yuruk who are able to produce this motif in tablet weaving. This accomplishment is worthy of note as there are researchers who in ignorance of Turkmen bands, state that the spiral cannot be woven on tablets". So I do not think you can talk of a 'kivrim threading'; it is a description of a pattern, which in its original form consisted of oblique stripes two tablets wide. Of course if you can produce something similar with stripes one tablet wide, it is just a variation... and still a spiral, a kivrim. 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.
