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> But I digress. I simply need to know how to finish the woven part to > make it look nice, please? My guess is to use square knots, but my > imagination says that will look kinda large, clunky and silly. So I > throw it out to all of you. The medieval belts I've seen had metal coverings at both ends, riveted to the fabric. That seems to have been the standard way of attaching a buckle as well as protecting/decorating the ends. See for example http://www.guntram.co.za/tabletweaving/gallery/gallery_brocade.htm#40CBC astle A simpler method is to get a point with a slot at one end through which the belt can be threaded, turned back on itself and stitched fast. The belt here http://www.guntram.co.za/tabletweaving/index.htm is done that way, though you can't see the method of attachment very clearly. You can find sime really nice medieval pieces on the web; try for example Raymond's Quiet Press http://www.quietpress.com/ and http://www.quietpress.com/Saxon_Belt_Tips.html The simplest way of all is to work the weft back into the belt when you're done (or use a needle to stitch it in), cut off the warp, and leave a fringe of whatever length you like. Actually this doesn't look bad at all. If you want to be more inventive, you can leave a sufficiently long fringe so that you can braid the ends. Hope that's given you some ideas. Cheers, Eckhard. Eckhard Gartz Interlink Development Microgen South Africa Tel: +27 (0)21-799 9822 Fax: +27 (0)21-799 9900 http://www.microgen.co.za ________________________________________________________________________ This email was checked on leaving Microgen for viruses, similar malicious code and inappropriate content by MessageLabs SkyScan. DISCLAIMER This email and any attachments transmitted with it are confidential and may contain privileged or copyright information. Any views or opinions expressed in this email are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Microgen. If you are not the named or intended recipient of this email you must not read, use or disseminate the information contained within it for any purpose other than to notify us. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this email from your system. It is your responsibility to protect your system from viruses and any other harmful code or device, we try to eliminate them from emails and attachments, but accept no liability for any which remain. We may monitor or access any or all emails sent to us. In the event of technical difficulty with this email, please contact the sender or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microgen Information Management Solutions http://www.microgen.co.uk Send private reply to "Eckhard.Gartz" <[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.
