Shelagh wrote:
The rigid heddle is a relatively recent invention afaik: would vikings have used leash-and-stick to get the same effect?
Rigid heddles existed earlier, although I don't know of any Viking-related ones. According to _Textile Manufacture in the Northern Roman Provinces_, there are the remains of at least three from the Roman period, including one (still?) in the museum at Newcastle.
Hoffmann does report on a long tradition of the Sami using them, although I think the earliest reference in that case is 17th century.
Carolyn
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