Michael wrote:
> at them from the right instead of the left - the > holes have the same names, > but the perspective is different.
I've always thought of the "front" of each card, as the side with the labels. :grin:
I think of it this way also. So when I think about it, I consider the clockwise ABCD order of labeling to be a postulate. (That's what surprised me so much about how Sarah described her method of labeling, since I'd never seen tablets labeled counterclockwise.) Next I declare an axis: weaving takes place starting near the weaver's body and growing away from the body, with the unwoven warp at the far side of the tablets from the weaver.
Then I consider whether the printing on the tablet front faces into the right palm ("facing right") or the left palm ("facing left") during the turning movement. I encountered significant differences in *that* variable among the authors I considered while writing the newsletter article; since I know Sarah uses the basic weaving position I describe above, that's why I asked if she uses the pack facing right or left.
Myself, I don't pay attention to the labeled corners unless I'm working on a threaded-in pattern or trying to write an article. ;>
The article I wrote was for the most recent issue of the SCA publication "Knot Now," and it was a synoptic lexicon of tablet weaving vocabulary for beginners. My goal was to help beginners translate terminology drawn from Atwater, Collingwood, Crockett, Groff, Hansen, and Staudigel to any other author's terminology. I chose those six authors because they represented a well-known and diverse group of sources of English vocabulary on the subject, and because each has influenced subsequent published authors' choices of vocabulary.
Carolyn
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