Sponsored by TWIST - Tablet Weavers International Studies & Techniques Our Guild has been invited to demonstrate Roman-period textile making (drop spindling and weaving with a warp weighted loom) at Silchester (Roman excavation site in Hampshire) next month and again in early August. I had volunteered for both of those activities, but I've just been asked to demonstrate TW too, preferably using triangular tablets such as were found at the site.
I don't have time (we are in the middle of moving house) or resources to do much research, so I googled for information and visited Weavers Hand and looked at saved posts from this list and the SCA list, and of course I've read the relevant sections in TTW. I'm now more confused than when I started. Did the Romans really use triangular tablets? Peter seems to think that all the supposed triangular tablets found at Roman sites were actually used for other purposes such as rope/cord making. If that is true, I don't want to demonstrate using them, even though the local museum seems to think they were used for TW. Does anyone have any information that might help me decide? I assume I would be safe if I used square tablets to make S/Z patterned bands in one colour or simple warpwise stripes? TIA Jenny K in England mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send private reply to Jenny Kosarew <[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.
