Sponsored by TWIST - Tablet Weavers International Studies & Techniques Nancy and Peter, thanks for your responses.peter wrote: >I rather doubt if their proposed use as weaving implements would now be >current if it were not for its inclusion in Margrethe Hald's influential >writings. But she was basing this on the pierced wooden triangles found in >Scandinavia, now known to be a very ingenious way of suspending three >shafts on a loom.
Ah, that's useful to know. I've passed on the information to the rest of the demonstration group. Our co-ordinator will be talking to the director of the Silchester dig tomorrow and will mention our doubts. It seems likely that we will use square tablets, S and Z threaded, for the main demo, though we may have someone using triangular ones too, but explain that there is doubt about their authenticity. Another question that occurred to me is how the Romans would have been likely to set up their TW - between vertical posts as in the Virgin Mary pictures, pegs in the ground, with a backstrap, or ... ? Also, is there any evidence that warp spreaders were used that early? Jenny Kosarew 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.
