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Hi all,
I was working on some TW research/writing, and came up with what I think is
a good justification for labeling the tablets on the right / counterclockwise.
Justification, that is, beyond me being used to thinking about it that way. :)
My diagrams all go like this:
weaver/cloth A D unwoven warp
B C
If you are accustomed to looking at the weaving setup from the right,
then the cloth builds from left to right, and the corresponding diagram
of fabric structure can be read from left to right, the way that those
literate in European languages are used to interpreting things.
So with the above setup, the corresponding band would be:
A B C D A B C D
A B C D A B C D unwoven warp
A B C D A B C D
A B C D A B C D
(using all forward turns, in the way that a bicycle wheel moves when going
forward.)
I could, I suppose, create all my diagrams in the same way I draw weaving patterns,
from bottom to top instead of horizontally. When mixed with text, though, vertical
diagrams both take up more room and interrupt the usual "flow" of the page.
My decision was to continue to be contrary (but consistent) and always picture the
tablets as counterclockwise from the right, but to _always_ acknowledge that other
sources and
many commercial tablets are labelled clockwise on the left and explain the equivalence.
Phiala
Lady Phiala O'Ceallaigh
Seneschale, Shire of Nithgaard
Kingdom of AEthelmearc
http://www.stringpage.com
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