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I tend to be a lurker on this list, but this is one topic I want to chime in
about.
Several years ago, I was learning/playing with tablet weaving and my then 10
year old daughter wanted to know what I was doing. I showed her and she
decided she would make bracelets and necklaces for her friends for that
Christmas. I think she used 8 cards and did a nice job. Once I showed her
that you could setup a much longer section and weave one then skip and weave
another.
It's been year since she's done any weaving (for that matter it's been a year
since I've done any :( ), but now she is into crochet.
Matt
Matt Whiteacre
Engineering Technology
Texas A&M University
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Wheat wrote:
>
> Okay, strong opinion, delivered from a precarious perch on a soap box follows.
> Yes it does, but only if those of us who love this technique are willing to
> take/make some steps that bring in the next generation.
I agree with Wheat, with the caveat that in general, I don't like
kids, so I don't teach them. Except for specific individuals,
one-on-one. I do however teach lots and lots of adult classes in all
sorts of string things, and make lots of information, both beginner
and advanced, available online.
I can really only speak for the SCA, since that's where I spend most
of my energy, but the interest in tablet weaving has grown
_enormously_ over the past decade, as has the average level of
knowledge and skill among the particpants. To the point where _four_
people received our highest arts award recently, at least in part for
their practice of tablet weaving.
It doesn't seem to have caught on as explosively in the rest of the
world. I had someone, not a member of the SCA, come to an SCA event
recently just so she could talk to a "real person" about tablet
weaving and get some feedback. She couldn't find anyone else outside
the SCA to work with. (Side notes: I think one of the great benefits
of the SCA is that it serves as a repository for obsolete skills!)
I've been toying with the idea of teaching non-SCA classes for quite a
while, but given my very limited time, so far I haven't been able to
do so.
Anyway, I don't think tablet weaving is dead! (Although I wonder if
the original question was really just about the list...)
Sarah
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Sarah Goslee SCA: Phiala O'Ceallaigh
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