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Of course the answer is that some unknown tablet weavers in Ethiopia DID make very wide church curtains about 200 years ago. Using up to 300 tablets with a warp of thick silk or cotton.. Double-faced weave with images + simple straight turning patterns. See two plates in TTW. I mentioned a few days ago that I had off-prints of Professor Gerver's well-illustrated article on the latest of these astonishung finds.... I will send these pages to anyone who can get 3.70 pounds.. or its equivalent.. to me. Professor Gervers and the Henze's are the three people who have been discovering more and more of these mysterious textiles in far-flung monasteries. I have a more recent example, woven by Isamu Miyajima in Japan. He had learnt the technique solely from the illustrations in an American textbook. He could not read the text, so missed the fact that TW was usually very narrow! The piece he gave me is about 10 inches wide.. Woven of silk. Peter Collingwood blincoes nayland colchester co6 4jj uk- www.petercollingwood.co.uk Send private reply to "peter" <[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.
