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I have over the past 2 or 3 years been involved in analysing the amazing tablet-woven curtains now being found in far-flung Ethiopian churches/monasteries; like the famous Gondar ones in BM and ROM; but woven of brown/white cotton, instead of silk. One of the latest discovered consisted of ten panels, each 45 cm wide (+ total 15 foot wide)! This work was done entirely from slides and a few prints. Using an ancient low power microscope on the slides, or projecting them onto a screen; or wearing jewellers' goggles when looking at prints. In this way, I could count or deduce the number of tablets used..... around 200 on some of them. Could I have done this with a digital image? Definition is everything in this sort of work. Peter Collingwood 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.
